Welcome to the Fred S. Engle Middle School web site. Engle
is a place where all stakeholders, including approximately 900
students, over 100 faculty and staff members, parents, and community
members are truly committed to excellence.
Learning is not a spectator sport, and consistent with that
mindset our teachers ensure that our students are actively engaged
in pursuits of learning on a daily basis. Students’ learning
inquiries allow them to construct meaning around the big ideas
and enduring understandings that will enable them to maintain
their learnings for the long term and connect these learnings
to the larger world, as one of our fundamental obligations as
a school community is to prepare students to become viable members
of an increasingly global society.
Assisting in our learning quests is a library equipped with
well over 25,000 books, which allows us to offer 29 books per
student of a wide variety of genres. Our school also offers a
student to computer ratio of 2.2:1. Our technological resources
include six mobile computer labs, four of which have 30 laptops
and two of which have 15 laptops. Furthermore, each of our classrooms
is equipped with an LCD projector and an accompanying laptop
computer. Additionally, our school has a total of 19 SMARTBoards,
including two for each core team.
The implementation of such resources by our committed, focused,
and determined faculty and staff, while working in partnership
with an energetic and involved PTO, general parental base and
community at large, have allowed our hard-working students to
achieve impressive results on state standardized tests. Over
the past three years, for instance, our average Reading scores
have been 14.3% above the state average, while our average Math
scores have been 17.7% above the state average. In addition,
we are proud of the number of our students earning Advanced scores
on these assessments. In Reading, for instance, our Advanced scores over
the past three years have been 19.1% above the state average.
In 2007, this score was 20.1% above the state average. In Math,
our Advanced scores over the past three years have been 24.6%
above the state average. In 2007, this score was 30.5% above
the state average.
We are especially proud of the fact that we have collectively
accomplished these results while continuing to offer a curricular
program geared toward addressing holistic adolescent needs. As
such, our students participate in Physical Education/Health every
day of the school year. Additionally, we offer a full assortment
of exploratory courses (Art, Music, Technology Education, Computer
Education, Family and Consumer Science, Exploratory Spanish,
and Exploratory French) to all of our students. This approach
allows our middle school students to consider their options from
a variety of perspectives before making a more definitive commitment
to a career pathway in high school. Finally, to round out the
educational experience, we offer a total of 13 intramural athletic
activities, 13 interscholastic athletic activities, and 15 non-athletic
co-curricular/extracurricular activities.
I encourage you to navigate through our web site to learn more
about our school. Enjoy your virtual visit!
Best regards,
Robert J. Fraser, Ed. D.