Palms Middle School
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Palms Middle School or simply known as "Palms" or "PMS" is a public middle school located in Woodbine Street, inside the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Palms is part of Local District 3 of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It serves grades 6 through 8 under a traditional single track school calendar. Palms was founded back in 1949 and is currently serving approximately 1,939 students. Palms is home to a diverse number of students, including 37% Hispanic/Latino, 28% African American, 20% White, 13% Asian, 2% Filipino, and less than 1% American Indian and Pacific Islander.
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Ranking
- State Rank: 7 (based on API...1 Being Lowest, 10 Being Highest)
- API Score: 777 (The API Score is a number between 200 and 1000 that reflects a school’s or school district’s performance)
From the 2006 California Academic Performance Index (API) Base report.
History
1949 - Palms Middle School opened.
Map & Directions
<googlemap lat="34.023925" lon="-118.416631" type="map" zoom="17"> 34.023866, -118.416626, 10860 Woodbine St
Los Angeles, CA </googlemap>
1] Head northeast on Palms Blvd toward Sawtelle Blvd.
2] Turn left at Kelton Ave.
3] Turn right at Woodbine St.
Faculty & Staff Information
- Bonnie Murrow - School Principal
- Teachers with full credential: 87%
- Teachers with emergency credential: 5%
- Average teaching experience: 14 years
- Average teaching in district: 13 years
- First year teachers: 8%
Ethnic Diversity
- 37% Hispanic/Latino
- 28% African American
- 20% White
- 13% Asian
- 2% Filipino
- <1% American Indian/Alaska Native
- <1% Pacific Islander
Parent & Staff Comments
(parents and staff members can post their comments about this school here)
About the Neighborhood
Palms is a district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. Palms is bordered by Culver City to the south, Rancho Park and West Los Angeles to the north, and Mar Vista to the west. The housing stock in historic Palms is now almost completely composed of apartment buildings, and 92% of the population there are renters. The upscale Westside Village district contains the only significant remaining concentration of owner-occupied single-family homes, largely constructed by developer Fritz Burns in assembly-line style just before World War II; most of these houses have been expanded during their lifetime, and some have been replaced in recent years by bigger, two-story dwellings (including a number of "Persian palaces"). Apartment buildings, including two UCLA family- and graduate-student housing complexes, line even Westside Village's major thoroughfares.
Palms is served by the 405 San Diego and 10 Rosa Parks freeways. It has a good bus system, with the No. 12 Santa Monica Big Blue Bus (and the express Super 12) providing a direct line to UCLA on the north, Culver City on the south and the South Robertson area on the east. Venice Blvd. is served by the No. 33 (and Express 333) bus lines of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The No. 6 line of Culver CityBus on Sepulveda Blvd. links UCLA with the Los Angeles Airport and the Green Line of the light-rail system, while Culver City's No. 3 line connects the district to Century City. The city's Department of Transportation offers a commuter freeway express to downtown in the morning and return in the afternoon.
Famous Alumni List
- Ice-T, rapper/actor
- Austin Croshere, current Dallas Maverick
- Kevin Ollie, current Philadelphia 76er
- Steve Lewis, 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist, Track and Field, 400 meters and silver medalist in 1992 Olympic Games.
Academic Requirements
1. All students are required to provide and carry with them to each class a 3-ring binder, containing pens, pencils, erasers, and lined notebook paper.
2. Each notebook is to have sections for each academic area separated by dividers.
3. Binders need to have a zip pouch that holds pens, pencils and erasers.
4. Students are given a planner and must use their planners in each class to record assignments and grades. Planners are to be kept up to date.
5. Pee-Chee folders, whiteout, and felt markers are not acceptable materials.
6. Student binders are to have names and homeroom numberson them.
7. Homework is to be completed on time.
8. Textbooks are loaned to students free of charge. However, students are responsible for lost or damaged books. Text-books are to be brought to class as instructed by eachteacher.
Eligibility Requirements
- Not more than one “U” in cooperation. The second “U” makes the student ineligible.
- Not more than three “U’s” overall. The fourth “U” makes the student ineligible.
- Not more than one “Fail”. The second “Fail” makes the student ineligible.
- Eligibility is based on adherence to the rules outlined in the Code of Conduct for Palms MS students.
- Any student suspended in the five weeks before an activity may lose eligibility for that activity.
