About Us

Mission & Vision

Our mission at Garrison Middle School is centered on the importance of providing a positive and safe environment that allows all students to achieve academic excellence. We strive to carry out this mission through focusing on the following key areas: student-centered environment, focused instruction, on-going assessment, data-driven decision making, collaboration among peers and involvement of parents and community. We are excited to work with middle school-aged children and we are fortunate to have a staff that is committed to this particular group of students and their academic, emotional and social development.

Garrison Middle School staff continue to work diligently on high yield strategies and have implemented new and creative ways to ensure ALL students are successful. Garrison will continue to focus on the PLC model. This model has four (4) essential questions: 1. What do we want students to learn, 2. How do we assess their learning, 3. How do we respond when they don’t understand the content, and 4, How do we ensure students are provided enrichment if they have met mastery on the identified essential standards we call “Promise Standards”?

Social development is incredibly important in the maturation of students from grade six through grade eight. We are not born knowing how to navigate life and its many different complexities. It is our distinct goal to assist students through these transitional years between elementary and high school by capitalizing on the opportunities to teach and re-teach expected behavior, social skills and problem-solving strategies.