WELCOME
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Welcome to Berkeley Middle School in Williamsburg, Virginia! Berkeley is one of three middle schools that serves the Williamsburg-James City County community. Nearly 800 students currently attend Berkeley in grades 6 through 8, and a staff of more than 60 teachers and 20 support personnel provide the caring, supportive, challenging environment for which Berkeley is known. |
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CURRICULUM
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Our curriculum is designed to bridge the transition for young adolescents between their elementary school experience and the rigors of high school. We emphasize a core curriculum in language arts, reading, math, science, and social studies. Students also enjoy wide opportunity to explore their interests and nurture their talents in band, choir, art, home studies, technology, physical education, computers, and foreign languages (including Spanish, French, Latin, and German)! |
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ACCREDITATION
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Berkeley is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and has consistently met or exceeded state averages on the Standards of Learning assessments. The table below shows the 4 years ratings for Berkeley Middle School. We are very proud of these results! Berkeley has consistently scored high in most subject areas. This year we are especially proud of the History score which has a 50% jump.We congratulate our teachers for a super job. |
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CURRICULUM
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Berkeley also offers a variety of co-curricular and extra-curricular programs for students. AVID, special education, alternative education, Project Phoenix, the After-School Program, ATOMS, Model United Nations, and Math Counts are just some of the co-curricular programs that complement and support our core academic mission. Extra-curricular opportunities include the school newspaper, yearbook, Bulldog News, football, cheerleading, softball, basketball, in-line hockey, field hockey, volleyball, and tennis. These activities are integral to meeting the social, emotional, and physical needs of many of our students and help foster well-rounded interests.
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BERKELEY HISTORY
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Berkeley Middle School has served the community for 45 plus years. It has been a high school, an intermediate school, a junior high, and an elementary school. For more than a decade, however, it has served as a middle school. Originally designed for 350 students, Berkeley was renovated and expanded during the 1998-99 school year. It has more than doubled in capacity, with a target enrollment of 775 students. The expansion has added two new academic wings to the school, each featuring 12 classrooms, two workrooms, support facilities, storage areas, and commons areas. Also new is our beautiful media center, which is more than double the size of the original and boasts computer work stations, a reading lab, teacher work areas, and a new media retrieval system. The renovation has also brought new life to the original school building, with refurbished classrooms, new technology infrastructures, and a new pitched roof. At $9.5 million, this project has been the most significant physical change to the school in its history. Despite Berkeley's new size, the staff continues to strive and maintain the small-school atmosphere that has always characterized Berkeley. |
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