Hoover Middle School
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Anonymous
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Hello,
The feeder schools for Hoover are Beverly Farms, Potomac and Wayside. My son will be attending Hoover Middle School for academic year 2025-26 so I was wondering if anyone know how students are grouped at Hoover? Are students divided into “teams” ? If yes, does the school try to mix an equal number of students from each feeder school into the “team”? Thank you. |
Anonymous
| They don’t schedule kids by hand. The program doesn’t look at their elementary as part of the process. I don’t know if Hoover still splits by “team” but class placement is either random or partially alphabetical (based on how the program works. |
Anonymous
| Never heard of such a thing as “team”. Class assignment at the same level are mostly random at Hoover, except one is by last name. |
Anonymous
I think teams are just the 6th grade team, 7th grade team, and 8th grade team. |
Anonymous
Yes. And homeroom/"mascot" class is alphabetical within grade |
Anonymous
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I've had three kids go through Hoover. I've never heard of teams (except as a pp noted as the '6th grade team' etc.)
I've found that kids kind of stick with their ES friends through a lot of 6th grade and by 7th, kids from the three schools are pretty mixed together, friendship-wise. (My 9th grader's friend group includes only 1 person from her ES.) |
Anonymous
A true middle school model (not the wanna be junior high model in MCPS) has students roughly divided into teams. So one large group of students would rotate between a team of 4 core teachers and another group of students would rotate between 4 different core teachers. In Virginia, I worked at middle schools that would have 2-4 teams per grade depending on the size of the school. |
Anonymous
| At a large school like Pyle, the grades are divided into "teams" for organizational purposes |