Century Middle School (1480)
13000 LAFAYETTE STREET
THORNTON, CO 80241
690
Total Students Served
Grade 6 - Grade 8
School District:
Adams 12 Five Star Schools (0020)
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About Century Middle School (1480)
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Century Middle School
2025-2026
Century Middle School (CMS), established in 1998, is located in Thornton, CO. Century Middle School serves 694 students in grades 6-8, and are represented as follows: 50.72% male (352), 49.14% female (341), less than 1% x-unspecified (1). Hispanic: 47.3% (328 students) American Indian or Alaska Native: 4.2% (29 students) Asian: 9.1% (63 students) Black or African American: 7.2% (50 students) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 1% (6 students) White: 88.6% (615 students) Two or more races:…
5.6% (39 students) Homeless: 3.0% (21 students) Free and Reduced: (at the time of writing the UIP, we did not have current data but last year was 49.51% and we expect to be at or above that for the 2025-2026 school year. ELD (includes LEP, FEP, Monitored) - 16.57% (115 students) SPED: 14.12% (98 students) GT: 11.96% (83 students) Century is a place where empowerment through student voice is common. Students are at the forefront of all of our decisions. In order for out teachers to best serve our student population, we engage in frequent and focused professional learning (PL). Job Embedded Professional Learning (JEPL) Pathways Used to Achieve Professional Learning Community (PLC) Goals and CMS Major Improvement Strategies. In order to differentiate for the various learning styles of our staff, we have developed the following pathways by which we offer professional learning. Our professional learning is a multi-tiered, sustained system that is grounded in best practices in and conditions for high-quality professional learning. These pathways ensure quality so professional learning is a foundation of the safety net that helps staff persevere, experience daily wins, build confidence, feel successful, and see the results of the efforts. Horizontal Professional Learning Communities (H-PLCs) - Two, 60 minute minute meetings weekly - This structure allows horizontal teams to engage in cycles for horizontal planning which consists of planning the non-negotiables of a unit (unit, standards, summative task, rubric, and learning progression) and includes at least one in-common formative and data meeting in which we bring student work to the table to analyze and use to inform our instruction. On one day of planning teachers are working on unit planning and assessments, on the other day they are bringing data and having power lesson discussions. Horizontal teams will go through one cycle for each unit of study. (The following is for a typical 25-30 day unit. Cycle will be adjusted depending on length of unit). Learning Walks - Monthly - A Learning Walk is a structured observation through a school. It?s used for continuous growth and improvement. It is important that all teachers get to experience what it?s like to observe in other teacher?s classrooms and learn from others as well as to have teachers come in and visit them and learn from them. Grade level Teams will engage in creating success criteria look fors based on the major improvement strategies of the school and their own wonderings. The data collected in connection with the success criteria will be the basis for group feedback to the observed teachers. Teams will then engage in a deep reflection and create an action plan. Community Meetings - Bi-Monthly - This time is dedicated to our whole staff coming together to engage in community building, celebrations, celebrate learner/risk taker of the month (staff), and receive general information. Progress Monitoring (PM Tool) Sessions - Monthly - This monthly meeting is dedicated to reflecting and gathering data to assess our major improvement strategies. We have one PM session around MIS #1 for instruction and one PM session around MIS #2 for culture. We also are monitoring MIS #3 on our new HQIM in Language Arts by having weekly walks in our ELA classrooms. We will use benchmarks to mark our goal setting, create and monitor action steps, and gather data to help us make decisions. One ILT member will attend with Administration and Coaches monthly. Admin/Coach PM Tool/Sprint Cycles - Weekly - This weekly time will be spent sharing coaching and administration engaged in sprint cycles with immediate feedback to teachers. Lesson Study - Ongoing - Lesson Study combines research based theory with classroom application. During Lesson Study, colleagues have the opportunity to work together by engaging in action research specific to a research question about content and/or instructional practices. Teachers will engage in an in-depth lesson planning process based on student data, and then work together to teach the lesson, reflect, adjust and re-teach. The experience concludes with a synthesis of research findings. District ILT - Monthly - Learning Services will have an opportunity to engage with Middle School instructional leadership teams during the 2025-26 school year to continue this learning, with specific attention to the district's major improvement strategies. In addition to the DISTRICT ILT workshops, we may engage in other learning at the building level as required by the team. Coaching Cycles - Ongoing - Coaching support is available through planning sessions as well as inside the classroom. Coaching during planning sessions provides support in planning content. Coaching inside the classroom provides support for implementing instructional practices. Participants and coaches work together to create a plan for setting goals and achieving them. GROW Group (New Teacher Program) - Yearly Program (as needed) - New teachers to our building will participate in a year- long support program built on the four key elements to be successful at Century Middle School: Growth mindset, Relationships, Organization, Wellness. Outside Professional Learning - Outside professional development is offered throughout the course of the year with the expectation of sharing information with their colleagues.
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