Orefield Middle School

Renovated in 2001, Orefield Middle School has a half-century serving the students in the Parkland School District in Pennsylvania. Built as the Parkland Junior Senior High School in 1953, the school opened in 1954 for 1,157 students in grades seven through twelve. As enrollment grew, seventh and eighth grade student were re-assigned to Troxell. Upon completion of Springhouse Junior High School in 1971, seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students were assigned to each of the junior high schools. Parkland High School (now Orefield Middle School) served grades ten through twelve from 1971 until 1999.

From 1999-2001 the high school was completely renovated in effort to mirror a team-centered approach for middle school instruction. A $19 million dollar project was configured into nine houses that included classrooms, a teacher planning rooms, and a flexible teaching-learning area.

The current Orefield middle school has a vast department of different things to learn that range from Math to Reading, Social Studies to Science, and Language Arts. They also have exploratory classes as well such as Art, Chorus, Orchestra, Band, Technology Education (Computers, Woodshop, and Electrical wiring), Info Tech (Keyboard practice), and Family Consumer Sciences (Babysitting, Cooking, and Consumer Resources) and so much more to add as well.

The upper level includes sixth grade houses and two seventh grade houses. Eight grade and one seventh grade are located on the lower level.

Orefield Middle School is the home of the “Jaguars,” and the current enrollment is 1,183 students.

In the basement of the school there is a bomb shelter.

External links

• Official website