View Ridge Middle

From the moment you arrive at the Spring Showcase, you’re surrounded by incredible projects from View Ridge Middle School students. You can hear the award-winning student band playing, and a colorful gallery of 3D art lines the halls. Step out into the sunshine of the courtyard, where snow cones melt in bright streaks down children’s hands, and you can watch student-built remote control robotic cars race around the concrete path. It’s a vibrant display of activity from all of the courses available at View Ridge.

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Families walk together through the building, enjoying every activity along the way. Someone’s little sister grabs two huge inflatable dice and tosses them in the air—then gets a quick lesson on probability. Two kids choose from dozens of magnetic words from a whiteboard, discussing which words they’ll use to make their poem. A father boosts his daughter up higher to place a red sticker at the very top of a wall chart: the graph’s upper left quadrant is for people who like vanilla and cats, and she really likes both vanilla and cats. It’s interactive learning at its best, and everyone is engaged. 

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In the STEM lab, there are wooden mazes with machined paths for marble runs, whirling robots, and original children’s toys. Just down the hall is the sound of a beautiful choir performance and the animated voices of a wild improv challenge in the school’s Black Box Theatre. In the gym, families laugh and cheer as they race through competitive games and fitness challenges. View Ridge is vibrant and active as students share with their families what they learn every day.

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Throughout the school, there are proud displays of completed projects: posters about United Nations countries, original board games, science experiments on strawberry DNA extraction, and intricate builds of electromagnetic speakers. Many parents are impressed when they see what their 7th and 8th grade students are achieving. 

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In the hallway, one student points to his project, then leans down to ask his little brother what he thinks. “I love it!” his brother says. “You made the best thing EVER!” Their mom ruffles the little boy’s hair and reminds him he’ll go to school here one day too. His eyes go wide at the thought, and he beams a bright smile. “Really?!? Awesome!! I can’t wait!”