Herbert Ammons

Herbert A. Ammons Middle School is a magnet school, in Miami, Florida in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. Ammons has a student body selected from throughout Miami-Dade county.In March 2007 Ammons Middle School became the first officially-authorized International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme school-wide program in the Miami-Dade County Public School System and Miami-Dade County. Ammons currently offers a full Middle Years Programme curriculum to students in grades 6, 7, and 8.Maria Costa, former assistant principal, is the principal for the 2009–current school year, following the departure of Irwin Adler, who led the school since its creation.Ammons Middle School operates on a daily 4 by 4 (4x4) block schedule with classing alternating every other day between even- and odd-numbered periods.Due to budget cuts their swchool used to operate 1st 3rd 5th and 7th period along with 2nd 4th 6th and 8th. But now it is 1st 3rd 5th 7th and long homeroom, 2nd 4th and 6th (as of 2012–13)From October 17, 2013 through February 12, 2014, eleven pieces of artwork from several attending students were displayed at the MIA Street Art Exhibit located in the American Airlines terminal of the Miami International Airport.In 2014, students from Ammons participated in the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee