Meyzeek Middle School

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Albert E. Meyzeek Middle School (usually just referred to as Meyzeek Middle School) is a free public middle school, with grades 6-8, in the Smoketown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, just southeast of Downtown Louisville. Meyzeek is part of a Jefferson County Public Schools, one of the largest school districts in Kentucky. It was founded around the mid-1900's and was originally called Jackson Junior High. It's name was later changed for long-term principal and Louisvillian civil rights leader, Albert E. Meyzeek. The school is on 828 South Jackson Street. It currently has 1120 students enrolled into the school,^[1] formed by a melting pot of kids from all nationalities. The current principal is Dr. Keith Look.

1 History
2 Grades
3 Academics
4 Trivia
5 References
6 See also
7 External Links

[edit] History

The school was founded in the mid-1900's under the name Jackson Junior High in the Smoketown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The school was later linked to Booker T. Washington Elementary School, a large expansion to the building. Then, the two schools combined to create a large Jackson Junior High. After many changes in Louisville and the school were made by Albert Ernest Meyzeek, Louisvillian civil rights leader and school principal, the school was renamed in his honor. ^[2]

[edit] Grades

The school's three grades are separated into different locations within the building in order to prevent fights, quarrels, bullying and other forms of upperclassmen contact from occurring. Each grade level is also assigned a 'stairwell' in which people of their grade and their grade only are permitted to pass safely. Those who disobey this rule could be severely punished. Many students are unable to follow these principles during electives as their related arts are positioned in another grade's territory so in order to reach these periods they must pass through these restricted hallways. Students aren't normally punished for doing so. In the building, there are also two duplex stairways in which any student from any grade is allowed to freely pass through them.

The school is split up into 3 grades(ranging from 6-8) in which about 375 people are in them. Each grade is split up into 3 separate teams. There are approximately 125 people per team. Then, each team is split into 4 classes, consisting of about 30 to 32 people each. These classes are determined by the academics of the students. There are three types of classes. These are Comprehensive(students with basic skills; work is at district level; math is studied at level), Advanced(student with more advanced skills; work is above determined level; math studied one grade above level) and Accelerated or Integrated(students with outstanding skills; work is above determined level; math is studied two grades above level.) Only 7th and 8th Graders can be in an Accelerated class because an Integrated Math test is given to each Advanced student in the 6th grade towards the end of the year. Those 31 students achieving the highest score are selected to join into one(for the entire grade) 7th grade class. They become a part of the 8th Grade class in the future. Each team either has two comprehensive classes and two Advanced classes OR two comprehensive classes, one Advanced class and one Accelerated class.

[edit] Academics

Meyzeek is known for doing very well in many academic areas such as Mathcounts, Science Olympiad, Science Fair, and Quick Recall. They also have an extremely strong, undefeated Chess team that won the State Team Chess Tournament in 2006 and again in 2007.

[edit] Trivia

Meyzeek was originally called Jackson Junior High until it was dedicated to Louisvillian civil rights leader and long-term principal, Albert E. Meyzeek.
Meyzeek had won the Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair for 14 years in a row but dramatically lost the streak in 2006.
The Meyzeek Science Fair was originally established by long-term Science teacher Mr. Thomas (Mike) Tatum.
Meyzeek is defined in the urban dictionary.[1]
A large banner of Albert E. Meyzeek was posted on the Jackson Street side of the school in 2006.