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Welcome to Marion Junior High School!
Elmer West, Principal
Natalie Rooney, Assistant Principal
Melvin Brown, Dean of Students
Yearbooks on Sale Now!
Order your yearbook before March 8 and pay only $25.00
Pick up an order form in the office.
HEY! It’s a new button!
On the Marion School District webpage, there is a new button! netTrekker
NOTE: Another access to netTrekker is available at the MJHS Library page, using the LINKS tab.
With the click of a mouse you can open a world of safe, appropriate, reviewed info using netTrekker. The best part is that, unlike Google™ or other generic search engines, netTrekker will narrow the search to academically related hits rather than the anything/everything hit list from Google™ or other generic
search engines. Users can select elementary, middle, or high school level; have access to dictionary use with the point of a cursor; read aloud support; resources available in multiple languages. NetTrekker truly strives to meet individual learning needs. Parents and students are invited to click on and enjoy the latest addition to MJHS educational tools. You are in for a real treat! Happy exploring!
Have you signed up for Edline?
If not, contact Debbie Jackson for more information.
870-739-5140
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Marion Junior High School is one of seven schools that make up the Marion School District . The school is located at 801 Carter Drive on 1-55, just south of the Marion exit.
The new junior high building was constructed in 2009. There is approximately 210,000 square feet in the building which has a total of forty-four regular classrooms. The building also houses a main office, nurse's office, a library, a counselor's suite, and book and supply rooms. Each classroom is equipped with a network linked computer as well as a SmartBoard.
Marion Junior High serves six hundred and seventy (678) eighth and ninth grade students . The school has three administrators: principal, assistant principal and dean of students, fifty (50) certified teachers and twenty-five (25) classified employees. The core curriculum includes English, math, social studies, and science. The eighth-graders also take a semester each of career orientation, and keyboarding and CA I. In addition to core classes, the ninth-grade take PE and health as well as electives in foreign language, computer applications, family living, driver's education and advanced math and English. Resource, self-contained, and gifted/talented programs are also available for qualified students. In many classrooms, teachers supplement classroom lessons with interactive
SmartBoards, educational television and other Internet programming.
Extracurricular activities at Marion Junior High School include band, choir, football, basketball, golf, tennis, track, girls' volleyball, and girls' softball. Students serve as office workers, library workers, and fire marshals. The school sponsors a National Junior Honor Society, Christian Club, Spanish Club, FCCLA, and Quiz Bowl. |
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