DESERT CHRISTIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
The goal of Desert Christian Middle School is to provide a caring, student-oriented, Christ-centered setting for enthusiastic and cooperative young people in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades with the goal of meeting our students' intellectual, emotional, physical, social, and spiritual needs.
Academics
- Let's Go Learn Diagnostic: Learning diagnostic used to identify gaps in math and reading, which is taken upon enrollment.
Advanced students:
ACCESS (Achievement Centered Challenge Events for Successful Students) Honors trips for kids with a 3.5 GPA with no C's
Honors English and Math Classes including a High School Level Algebra Class
Struggling students:
IEP support
Free daily after-school tutoring
Daily academic intervention at lunch
Lower English and math classes
- Technology:
- Google Classroom and Chromebook usage in all classrooms
- Two science labs
- IXL Math Support, Accelerated Reader, and SAVASS Science
Emotional Needs
DCMS has a school student advocate who meets with students who are in need of emotional support.
Physical Needs
- Structured physical education classes five days per week
- After School Athletics:
- Fall Sports: cheer, cross country, & volleyball
- Winter Sports: cheer, basketball, & soccer
- Spring Sports: track
Social Needs
- After School Socials: Fall Festival, Christmas Festival, & grade-level socials
- After School Clubs: Spanish, Baking, Art, Speech and Drama, Yearbook, Music, Christian Service, and more!
- Class and grade-level field trips, including:
- Sixth Grade: Great Wolf Lodge
- Seventh Grade: San Diego Safari Park
- Eighth Grade: Catalina
Spiritual Needs
- Weekly chapels including student-led chapel
- Service projects which give students an opportunity to serve in our community
