It keeps you excited. Irwin is housed in a 1927 brick building with a modern wing. Math and science are interwoven throughout the core curriculum, with monthly building-wide themes. Containers of live frogs, crabs and snails sit on the desks of fourth-graders who are working in groups on a math assignment. That expectation is met at Irwin, which has a PTA with 28 active committees.
Parents are regularly in the building, spending classroom time with their children or volunteering.
They passed on a neighborhood school next to their home, instead opting to enroll their children 2 miles away. We're really happy with our children here. The only magnet school among the district's 11 middle schools, Memorial Park focuses on performing arts and technology. The school offers art, music, choral, drama, stagecraft, a TV studio and major stage productions. Every student must commit to three years of fine arts electives.