Stanford and Hull-Jackson’s fourth grade students have an opportunity to be pioneers. MNPS is committed to starting a Montessori middle school housed in Margaret Allen Middle School on Spence Lane. The 2011-2012 school year will be the beginning of this middle school and will be a school within a school. It will begin with two classes this year. Next year two more with be added and the classes will be multi-age fifth and sixth graders. While the majority of  MAMS students with be traditional middle school students, there will be two classes that will be separate within the school. These classes will be taught by teachers who are either fully trained or working on their training. There has long been a request for a Montessori middle school and this is our chance. Hopefully, this is the year that we begin a new school that our students have a pathway into.