Central Middle School of Science is a middle school

Middle school

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 located in Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

, belonging to the Anchorage School District

Anchorage School District

The Anchorage School District manages all public schools within the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the 93rd largest school district in the United States, serving nearly 50,000 students at over 90 schools. As one of the United States' largest districts, it is often...

.  It places a special focus on science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 in its curriculum.  It consists of roughly 530 students and services the downtown and Ship Creek areas.  Central has a specialized program from the rest of the district, which includes an emphasis on science in all classes.  This allows the school to, in addition to its local service area, admit a certain number of students from other parts of Anchorage by lottery.

Demographics

In terms of race and ethnicity, Central Middle School of Science is racially and ethnically diverse; white

White American

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 students make up 51.0% of the student body, black students make up 18.0%, Hispanic

Hispanic and Latino Americans

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 students make up 8.1%, Asian

Asian American

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...

/Pacific Islander

Pacific Islander American

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 students make up 9.8%, and American Indian

Native Americans in the United States

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/Alaska Native students make up 13.0%.

Academics

Central offers standard middle school courses in mathematics, social studies, language arts, and science.  However, a special emphasis on science is put throughout the other "core classes", and studies in science tend to play a role in dictating the coursework in other classes.  In addition to these classes, the school also offers classes in art, further science electives, foreign languages, and music.

Teams

The school is divided into teaching units called teams.  All students on a team share the same teachers for their main classes, and teachers on a team work together to create coordinated curricula.  There are two 7th grade teams, and two 8th grade teams, and one 7th and 8th grade team combined. * 7th Grade Teams** Quantum** Velocity** 7th&8th** Acceleration. 8th Grade Teams** Ion** Kinetics.

Sports

Central participates in the Anchorage School District's standard program of interscholastic

Interscholastic

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 sports http://www.asdk12.org/activities/middle/.  They are as follows:* Cross country running

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

* Cross country skiing* Track and Field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

* Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

* Wrestling

Wrestling

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 Soccer

External links

• Central Middle School of Science website* Anchorage School District website