Montbello Middle Family Update(week of 2/16/26)
Mission: As the flagship school of this community, Montbello Middle School embraces partnerships with families, community and alumni to provide an educational experience that aligns with the values and aspirations of our families. Montbello Middle School provides a rigorous and meaningful educational experience to all its students that bases itself on equity and social justice. Montbello Middle School offers a safe and fun environment that prioritizes the whole child. We celebrate our multicultural and multilingual community by honoring diversity, student voice, and the active engagement of our stakeholders.
Vision: Montbello Middle School prepares students to become leaders of positive change in high school and in a global community in an environment of academic excellence, equity, and fun.
Major Improvement Strategies: The Areas of Focus for MMS this year are:
Tier 1/Data Driven Instruction
Positive Behaviors and Support/ Schoolwide and Classroom Culture
A Reminder about Montbello Middle’s Chromebook Policy:
Students will now have a chromebook assigned to them with their names and account information assigned to that chromebook. This is the policy that we used during the 2023-2024 school year
Students will carry their chromebook to each of their classes so they can engage in learning
Chromebooks will not be allowed to be taken out during lunch and recess. Students will place their chromebooks in their lockers during this time
The chromebooks will remain at the school so that we can avoid damage to the devices.
Please talk with our children about the importance of taking care of their devices. Not only are chromebooks important for your child’s learning, the damage can be very expensive:
Intentional Damage: $25-$399.13
Examples: Student pulled the keyboard keys off, threw the Chromebook, Student caused damage on another student’s Chromebook, Student put stickers on their device
Lost Device: $399.13
Example: the student can no longer find their device
Accidental Damage: Case-by-case basis
Example: Chromebook was knocked off a desk and the screen cracked
Thank you for your support with this process!
Wednesday February 18th:
This Wednesday February 18th WILL NOT be an early release day. Students will be dismissed at 3:50 pm.
Last Week’s Attendance Rate:
6th: 90.59%
7th: 88.34%
8th: 92.82%
ACCESS Testing and Interims:
Special Thanks to all families for working with us to make sure that students were in school last week to complete their interim assessments. We’re looking forward to seeing how students performed so that we can continue to adjust our instruction in Math, Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
Another Special Thanks to the parents of our MLE students as we have a 100% completion rate for this year’s ACCESS Test!
Athletics:
Boys and Girls Volleyball Teams are heading to the Playoffs/Postseason!
Girls Volleyball Team is heading to Bill Roberts to play against KCAA at 5:15 on Tuesday, February 17. If they win, they play at Manual against Manual on Wednesday, February 18 at 4:15.
If they continue to win, they move forward and then they will play the winner between Lake/Greenwood/DCIS/Pitt Waller on Thursday, February 19 at TBD at TBD. If they make it to the Final, they play on Friday, February 20 at TBD at TBD. Final Team could be Howell/Bear Valley/DMLK/Place Bridge/Kepner Beacon/DG Southeast/Bruce Randolph. Good Luck to our Lady Warriors!
Boys Volleyball Team is heading to Hamilton to play against Merrill at 5:15 on Wednesday, February 18. If they win, they play the winner between Pitt Waller/Place Bridge on Thursday, February 19 at TBD at TBD. If they make it to the Final, they play on Friday, February 20 at TBD at TBD. Final Team could be Kepner Beacon/Manual/Lake/DG Northfield/Skinner. Good Luck to our Warriors at Playoffs!
This is a single elimination tournament.
