Facts About Our School
Year School Built 1937
Building Addition 1963
Square Footage 99,514
Number of Students 470
Grades Served 5-8
School Hours 8:55 - 3:55
School Colors Blue and Gray
School Mascot Blue Jay
School Motto:
“West is Best”
Principal:
Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Gregory.Hutchings@mnps.org
Assistant Principal:
Jeffrey Keith - Jeffrey.Keith@mnps.org
District 8 School Board Representative:
David A. Fox - david@fox4schools.com
District 25 Metro Council Representative:
Sean McGuire - sean.mcguire@nashville.gov
Parent Support Group Contact:
Co-PTSO President, Stephenie Dodson - stephenie@comcast.net
Co-PTSO President, Cameron Phillips - nwp@comcast.net
What Makes Our School Unique?
West End Middle School is located at 3529 West End Avenue in Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee. The school sits at the edge of Elmington Park off West End Avenue and Bowling Avenue. It is located in an affluent residential community where the majority of homes costs upwards of half a million dollars. Designed by Donald Southgate, a prominent Nashville architect of the time, the school’s red brick building is one of the best examples of Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival style of architecture, which is characterized by symmetry and a strong emphasis on a central front door and cupola. The building has a tower that is approximately 150 feet tall and houses a thousand pound bell that chimes sweetly at the top of each hour.
West End Middle School strives to involve all stakeholders in the education of students. We truly believe that all students are capable learners and must feel safe and secure in school to successfully achieve at an optimal level. Excellence in education is what West End Middle School strives to achieve. Our goal is to awaken the intelligence of students and teach them to recognize relationships between school and the world outside school by combining knowledge, experience, community service, and critical observation. Additionally, we want to provide students with a high quality educational program for developing, improving, and applying knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the diverse world in which we live.
The facilities at West End Middle School recently underwent a $7.6 million improvement. A new central heating and cooling system replaced the old furnace that heated the school and the window air conditioners that cooled the rooms. Well over a million dollars was spent on updating the electrical system and the infrastructure for technology. Some of the technology updates include cameras for safety, flat screen TVs in high traffic areas for announcements, a modern computer lab, and a new sound system. All the windows were replaced, and the roof was repaired.
Hillwood Cluster Map (2008-2009)
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What Does Our School Offer?
The basic curriculum of West End includes language arts, social studies, math, reading, and science. Related arts classes offered are Spanish, band, art, and P.E. We have ten ELD classes. Fifth grade offers advanced classes in reading, language arts, and math. Sixth grade advanced classes include math, reading, and language arts. In the seventh grade, there are advanced classes in math and language arts. Eighth grade advanced classes are language arts, physical science, and geometry. Our gifted fifth and sixth students attend a challenging Encore class for a half day weekly. Language!, a reading intervention class for struggling readers, is taught in grades five through eight in place of a regular reading class. Special Education includes two resource classes, two deaf and hard of hearing classes, and a visually impaired program. Also, West End has a strong English Language Development program and one MIP conduct class.Our purpose is to ensure that every student achieves academic success, contributes to our global society, and become life-long learners who value education!
Academics
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High school credit classes: Algebra I, Spanish I, Geometry and Physical Science
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Advanced Reading, Language Arts and Math for grades 5-8
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ENCORE
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Language Arts, Reading, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science
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Language Exclamation
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Yoga
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Band, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, Technology, Spanish Appreciation, Physical Education
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Tentatively will be a school-wide International Baccalaureate Organization’s Middle Years Programme for 2008-09 school year
Extracurricular
After school, West End offers extracurricular activities through the Community Education office. WEXP, our before and after care program organized by WEMS parents, promotes academic and creative studies. Our knitting club meets before school, as well as, our swim club. West End offers Student Council as well as the newspaper and yearbook after-school. We plan to offer a step team in the Fall 2008.
Athletics
West End Middle School offers athletic opportunities for students to participate in Fall, Winter, and Spring sports. The Fall sports include girls’ soccer, volleyball, cheerleading and football. Our winter sports are basketball and cheerleading. In the Spring, West End offers boys’ soccer and track.
PENCIL Partners
PENCIL Partners (Public Education Nashville Citizens Involved in Leadership) was established in 1982 as a network of local businesses, civic and faith-based organizations that partner with and volunteer in Nashville Public Schools. Members are part of the private nonprofit PENCIL Foundation whose mission is to create and cultivate partnerships that enhance learning, promote career success, and improve the quality of life in Nashville. West End has been privileged to have Ingram Industries as our PENCIL partner since its inception in 1982. Their generous financial support every year allows us to enhance the programs and activities that most benefit our students. As of this year, West End is pleased to have a second PENCIL partner, West End Honey Baked Ham. |