At a large school like Pyle, the grades are divided into "teams" for organizational purposes

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.)

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I think teams are just the 6th grade team, 7th grade team, and 8th grade team.

Yes.

And homeroom/"mascot" class is alphabetical within grade

Anonymous wrote: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.

I think teams are just the 6th grade team, 7th grade team, and 8th grade team.

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.

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.

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.