Odle Middle School

Odle Middle School is a public middle school in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The school is one of seven middle schools in the Bellevue School District, and was named posthumously after Frank Odle, who taught in the district for 55 years before retiring in 1968. Odle is located near Stevenson Elementary, formerly a primary feeder elementary school for Odle. Odle is primarily known for its hosting of the PRISM program, a gifted program for high-performing children. As of the 2016–17 school year, the school's principal is Aaron Miller and its assistant principals are Renee Del-Barut Fierro and Genisha Wea.In the 2001–02 school year, Odle Middle School was one of two schools in the state to be awarded a Blue Ribbon by the U.S. Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive.DemographicsAs of the 2016–17 school year, the school had an enrollment of 963 students and 52 classroom teachers, and a student-teacher ratio of 18.5. 22% of the students are Caucasian, 55% are Asian/Pacific Islander, 13% are Hispanic, 8% are multi-ethnic, and 3% are African American.AcademicsRocketryIn 2016, Odle Middle School's rocketry club sponsored three teams in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). In the competition's qualifying round, two of the teams placed in the top 100 teams in the nation, earning them a spot at the TARC national finals, the third team placed as a second alternate. One of the teams, the Odle Middle School "Space Potatoes," won the 2016 Team America Rocketry Challenge, earning more than $20,000 in prizes and scholarships and a trip to London to compete in the International Rocketry Challenge. The team went on to win International Rocketry Challenge at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 15, besting the top student rocketry teams from the United Kingdom, France and Japan. The team has five members and is mentored by some of Odle's STEM teachers, Brendan Williams, James Petoskey, and Stacia Bible.