Signature Programs
STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math)
Madison Park Middle School’s STEAM program provides students with a solid curriculum with an emphasis on math, science and engineering, giving them an advantage when entering a STEAM High School.
Students are taught to engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate. All students are provided a three year engineering curriculum that includes hands on learning labs with 22 engineering lab stations that include 3D printing, pneumatics, rockets, robotics, and more.
Madison Park also offers extra-curricular opportunities for students to further develop their STEAM learning including Engineering by Design, and others.
REACH - Profoundly Gifted
The Madison School district provides a self-contained accelerated program for those students who are profoundly gifted known as REACH, Rigorous, Enriched, Accelerated Curriculum for the Highly Gifted.
The REACH program for students in grades 1-4 is located at Madison Heights Elementary, grades 5-7 at Madison Park, and for 8th-grade students at Madison No. 1 Middle School.
REACH students receive curriculum two grade levels ahead and may earn one year of High School Foreign Language credit.
This program provides highly gifted students in grades 1-8 the opportunity to function at an academic level that is commensurate with their abilities, while having the opportunity to interact socially with students who have similar interests and academic needs.
Students develop a differentiated educational plan (DEP) in an area of interest that is researched and reported on in both oral and written presentations, and take a class field trip such as to Catalina Island Marine Institute, AstroCamp, Pali Institute, etc.
REACH classes are taught by highly qualified appropriately certified gifted teachers in the classroom.
To qualify for REACH, students must score 99% on the COGAT or 139 on the WISC, or 142 on the Stanford Binet plus 80 percentile on the district math and reading assessment.