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| Website | Principal | Address |
| Carmenita | Rhonda Buss | 13435 E. 166th St. Cerritos 90703 562-926-4405 |
 Dr. Rhonda Buss, Principal |
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Carmenita Middle School is a place where student achievement is at the forefront of every activity and decision. The comprehensive curriculum is designed to prepare middle school students for the emotional, intellectual, physical, and social changes they experience at the middle school level.
Carmenita welcomes and encourages the active participation of parents in their student's educational endeavors. Teachers work diligently to help parents remain involved in their student’s coursework through the use of the Teacherweb.com website that includes up-to-date information about class activities, assignments, projects, and/or tests. Additionally, the teachers ensure that parents have access to the most recent grade information for each individual class through the ABC Parent Portal program.
Our students understand that progress is an expectation. Both students and teachers use student data as a tool to encourage successful progress. Students are trained to read their own assessment data, chart individual progress, and set goals based on the data. Carmenita teachers are committed to assist students in goal attainment and provide interventions as well as accelerated learning opportunities.
AM 1620 KUGR is a student-operated radio station on Carmenita Middle School’s campus, airing live and taped broadcast coverage of campus and community activities. The student generated programming schedule has a variety of talk-show style interviews such as Teacher Features, CMS sports, Meet CMS authors, along with a showcase of campus interviews and student performances. For your listening pleasure, on your radio dial, AM 1620 will keep you up-to-date with Cougar news. KUGR is the roar of the campus!
Distinguished Scholars (DS)
Carmenita’s mission is “ensure successful progress for all” and a program that demonstrates our mission is Distinguished Scholars, which has three overarching goals. One goal for the Distinguished Scholars (DS) program is to increase desire and passion for learning. Often after school, one could observe DS students laughing and working on projects together. Their excitement and zeal for the program manifests not only through their willingness to go “above and beyond” in a specific content area, but also in the desire to grow as a student.
Another goal for the Distinguished Scholars program is to prepare for rigorous high school college-preparatory curriculum. A very clear indication that we are meeting this goal is that most of the DS students are accepted into high school honors classes and upper-level math classes after they are promoted.
The goals of leadership development and understanding the significance of community service are essential to the DS program. The DS students are required to “give back” to the Carmenita community by leading other students. “Giving back” is done in a variety of forms, which include tutoring, mentoring, and leading class discussions.
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Cougar Health and Fitness Center Carmenita believes that a healthy body produces a healthy mind. With this, we raised money, along with our PTA, to open the only “Health and Fitness Center” in ABC Unified School District. In the “Fitness Center,” students learn to use state-of-the-art fitness machines and technology to improve their physical fitness and produce a healthy body.
Our new fitness center has moved our athletes to a higher-level of success. Carmenita teams proved this as they were district champions in basketball, softball, volleyball and won the track meet for the fourth year in a row.
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We are very excited about the 2010-11school year and look forward to continue the fulfillment of our mission to “ensure successful progress for all.”
