Mesa Verde Middle School (Rancho Peñasquitos)
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Mesa Verde Middle School, a middle school in Poway Unified School District, is sometimes abreviated as MVMS. Its principal is Greg Mizel as of June 2008.
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[edit] Feeders and Location Background
There are four elementary "feeder schools" of Mesa Verde: Canyon View Elementary School, Deer Canyon Elementary School, Park Village Elementary School and Sundance Elementary School. Mesa Verde is located at 8375 Entreken Way, which is off perpendicualar to Carmel Mountain Road. A branch of Entreken Way leads to Deer Canyon. North a ways off Carmel Mountain Road is Twin Peaks Road, which Sundance is located along. About a half a mile along the road is Black Mountain Road. South a mile leads to Park Village/Adolphia Road. Along Adolphia a few hundred feet is Canyon View and west on Park Village a mile is Park Village Road. Mesa Verde is situated between Deer Canyon and Westview High School, of which Mesa Verde feeds into. It is also situated right north of California State Route 56.
[edit] Demographics
Mesa Verde is for grades six thru eight. It has just under fifteen hundred students and about sixty teachers, making a staff population of about a hundred. According to the California Department of Education, the main ethnicity is white and the most popular at-home language is Spanish.
[edit] Programs
Mesa Verde, like almost all schools in Poway, has an after-school program called the YMCA, similar to the Extended Student Services(ESS). The school also has endless other after-school programs and school activities that cannot be listed.
[edit] Awards and Recognition
The school has been recognized as one of the top four middle schools in San Diego County. It has also been rewarded as a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School. The school has won unnamable awards in all kinds of extracurricular contests and activities. For exaple, in Science Olympiad, a nationwide science contest, Mesa Verde won third place regionally, only to their close competitors Carmel Valley Middle School and Black Mountain Middle School which are both close by.
