In spring 2025, members of the New Middle School on Euclid St Community Working Group (CWG) collected feedback from their communities on a range of topics to plan for the new middle school’s opening. This included school culture, academic focus, arts, athletics, world language offerings, and career and technical education (CTE).
A few themes emerged. Within school culture, respondents stressed the need to build culture early on and include families who speak languages other than English. When asked about academic focus, respondents said they want to see opportunities to learn languages, be prepared for high school and STEM focused CTE options. For athletics, sports like soccer, basketball, swimming, tennis, baseball, and volleyball were requested by multiple communities.
Quotes from community members make up the first draft of a report from the CWG. The report will evolve and ultimately be presented to the future school leader of the middle school as they make key decisions about the school. The final report is intended to serve as a resource for the new school leader and to provide context on community engagement. The report will evolve and ultimately be presented to the future school leader as they make key decisions about the school aligned with DCPS leadership and education standards.
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