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Harper's Choice Middle School is partnership of students, staff, parents, and community that places
an emphasis on the pivotal importance of an appropriate school culture. We actively cultivate a climate
where respect, teaching and learning, appreciating differences, and service to others are modeled and
valued. We are committed to to a focus on instruction, acceleration, shared partnerships, and continuous
improvement. We are equally committed to the adventure of life-long learning and believe there is no
excuse not to have high quality teaching, active parent involvement, and student performance
excellence-academically and behaviorally.
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HCMS ensures a successful middle school experience by providing a challenging, rigorous, and
well-balanced academic, fine arts, and enrichment program that fosters a sense of self-discipline and
compassion. Students may participate in chorus, band, orchestra, art design, athletic and academic
intramurals, memory book publication, and in-school television production, as well as algebra, geometry,
French, Spanish, and challenge reading. Our focus on an appropriate school culture/climate, as well as
accelerating student academic skills in mathematics and reading and writing in all content areas is
bolstered by after-school programs that also concentrate on reading-writing-mathematics initiatives.
We believe that this broad consistency is crucial if students are to develop communication and numeracy
skills that they'll need to be successful.
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We believe that every child can and will be successful as we continue to develop and foster responsible,
productive, and respectful life-long learners. This will occur as we plan, think about and reflect upon
learning, and work collaboratively to accelerate student achievement.
We are proud of the many conscientious parents who partner with us and work collectively with staff
to provide the best educational experience for our youngsters. Harper's Choice boasts a vigorous PTA,
as well as the Harper's Choice Music Boosters Foundation Inc., which supports our performing arts
programs We value, as well, our business partners and believe that they, too, enhance learning,
achievement, and character through various grade-level interactions with students, parents, and
teaching staff.
We look forward to a positive future through continued effective collaboration and hard individual
effort, providing along the way a safe environment that fosters problem solving through utilization of
technology, print, and human resources. Thanks for visiting with us. High Quality Teaching + Parental Involvement + Student Academic and Behavioral Excellence
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Facility opened - 1973
Renovated in 1999 and 2000.
School Capacity: 506 (not including 5 portable
Total Full-Time Enrollment: 558
Student Mobility (2007-08):
Ethnicity (2007-08):
Students Receiving Special |
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Computers for student use: 60
PTA members: 480 |
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Directions:
From Route 108, take Harper's Farm Road south to Beaverkill Road, turn left. Follow Beaverkill to the end and the school is on your left. |
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