It's the only middle school with sixth, seventh and eighth grades - all others Washoe County middle schools have just seventh and eighth grades. Over the three years, teachers have a better chance to get to know the kids and assess their needs, he said. We do some separation of sixth graders from seventh and eighth grade, with separate lunches and core classes for sixth grade in one wing. Size also sets Incline Middle School apart. This is a small town with one feeder elementary school, one middle school and one high school.
Fewer students can fall through the cracks here.
The fall TerraNova scores for eighth grade students were near the 60 percent range. Moving kids out of the bottom 15 percent is a primary focus for the school, Stancill said. Many people wrongly believe that Incline schools serve just wealthy families. A significant number of children come from families where parents work at the casinos or at large estates from spring through fall, then move south for the winter. This fact of life explains Incline Middle School's 29 percent transiency rate last year.