About Us
Martinez Junior High School is a comprehensive middle school with an enrollment of approximately 930 students in grades six through eight. Built in the early 1930’s and renovated in the late 1990’s, with funding from the community in the form of a bond measure, the campus includes 40 classrooms, two gymnasiums, an Industrial Technology Laboratory, three computer labs, a fully equipped fitness lab with mirror room and an extensive library.
All students are required to take a minimum of six classes each day. Sixth grade students are scheduled into two periods of English Language Arts, daily, in lieu of an elective, in order to increase proficiency in the area of writing. Seventh and eighth grade students have only one section of English Language Arts and are scheduled into an elective class of their choice.
All students are placed in one of four instructional levels for English Language Arts and mathematics. Students are periodically assessed using California standards based assessments. Using a flexible grouping model student’s leveled placements changes are assessment data driven. The four instructional levels are mastery, proficient, intervention and basic. The standards based curriculum at each level is designed to help all students bridge the gap between their measured performance and standards proficiency.
