Roseville Area Middle School (RAMS) is in the Roseville Area School District

Roseville Area Schools

Roseville Area Schools the school district of Roseville, Minnesota. It is also known as Independent School District 623.-Schools:*Roseville Area High School*Roseville Area Middle School*Brimhall*Central Park*Edgerton*Emmet D. Williams...

 (ISD 623). It is located on E. County Rd B2 in Little Canada

Little Canada, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 9,771 people, 4,375 households, and 2,393 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,445.8 people per square mile . There were 4,471 housing units at an average density of 1,119.1 per square mile...

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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General information

Roseville Area Middle School has around 800 students. The student body consists of two grades, seventh and eighth. Each grade is divided up into "teams" (each with 5 classrooms and a variety of other rooms) with seventh graders on Pegasus, Supernova or Cosmos team and eighth graders on Red Giants, Aquarius, or Dorado.

The RAMS campus was originally home to Frank B. Kellogg High School. Kellogg High School merged with Alexander Ramsey High School in 1986 to form Roseville Area High School

Roseville Area High School

Roseville Area High School is a public high school located in Roseville, Minnesota near the Twin Cities. It serves Roseville and the surrounding communities of Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Maplewood, and Shoreview, Minnesota...

 and the Kellogg site was converted into a middle school.

Activities

Extracurricular activities at RAMS include Student Council, Theatre, Morning Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Band, Chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Club, Science

Science

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

 Club, Rock Climbing

Rock Climbing

Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...

 Club, among others. The school sponsors football, soccer, basketball, cross country, track and field, tennis, skiing, and baseball teams.

Each year the theater program produces three shows: a fall show, a winter musical, and a spring show. The theater program also produces an improv

Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre takes many forms. It is best known as improv or impro, which is often comedic, and sometimes poignant or dramatic. In this popular, often topical art form improvisational actors/improvisers use improvisational acting techniques to perform spontaneously...

 class that occurs in the fall and spring. The theater was remodeled in the summer of 2006. The remodeling included new curtains, seats, a paint job and a new lighting booth.

Notable teachers

RAMS' Orchestra, Choir and Theater teacher Margot Olsen was awarded a Disney's American Teacher Awards Honoree in 2001.