Classes are scheduled on a trimester system, except at Atascocita Middle School and Timberwood Middle School, which are on a semester system. These three 12-week periods allow students opportunities to explore electives while receiving instruction in basic skills. Aside from the core curriculum of language arts, math, science, social studies and reading, there are elective courses which benefit students and prepare them to make choices at the high school level. Electives at the middle school level include keyboarding, industrial technology, band, choir, orchestra, athletics, speech, theater arts, journalism and art. Through the implementation of a broad offering of programs ranging from gifted and talented to the severely disabled, as well as many co-curricular activities, the middle school education is not only academically and socially appropriate, but challenging.
Counselors serve each grade level and assist with direction in course selection.
Click the name of any school for a description of that campus. Atascocita Middle School opened in August 1983 at 18810 W. Lake Houston Pkwy. Its enrollment dropped to 1,058 with the opening of Timberwood Middle in August 1998. Introductory courses in French and German are offered in addition to the well-established Spanish program. Technology is stepping to the forefront at AMS with computerized research facilities in the library and four computer labs.