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PSD’s choice-only* Core Knowledge middle school
- PSD's only National Blue Ribbon middle school, with an additional US Department of Education Green Ribbon Award and Professional Learning Community at Work Model School designation
- Center-based Integrated Learning Supports program
- Award-winning music program, including a Best Community for Music Education distinction
- Core Knowledge requires all students to learn visual arts and music in addition to core subjects
- Robust leadership programming including Kinard CARES and Global Leadership
- Career and Technical Education (CTE) Pathways: Design & Technology, Multimedia Production, Entrepreneurship, Game Design, Computer Science, Family & Consumer Sciences, International Foods
*Choice-only schools are not charter schools – they are PSD public schools that do not have a neighborhood boundary, so they require a School of Choice application to attend.