Caring School Climate: Awarded to a middle school that has created a caring environment where students are supported and empowered to achieve.
Dartmouth Middle School is a dynamic, student-centered school that serves the Cambrian Park Community. Situated between neighborhoods with vast differences in family income, parent education levels, and ethnicity provides the school with amazing opportunities to deliver rigorous instruction while drawing on the strengths, qualities, and perspectives of its vibrant student body. Teachers passionately collaborate and follow Dartmouth’s mission to strengthen its Professional Learning Community.
The wide variety of student abilities and learning styles has helped create a vibrant system of learning that is fortified by cutting-edge, best practices instruction. Student-centered measures for mentoring, wellness, mindfulness, and self-expression seamlessly integrate into school wide programs which create connections within the community and promote kindness.
The rich emphasis on building Developmental Assets, promoting empathy, and helping others blends magically with instruction to create a balanced environment where students grow socially, emotionally, and academically.
“Dartmouth is a school that is so intentional about creating a positive culture for its students. They continue to seek ways to embrace asset development by offering curriculum and clubs for students, and even programs for parents, which lead to a very caring school environment.” – Danielle Paige, parent