Most students enter Santa Barbara Middle School in the sixth or seventh grade. Typically, we admit about 50 new sixth and seventh graders each school year. If there are openings in eighth and ninth grade, we admit new students.
Criteria for admission
Given Santa Barbara Middle School's desire to maintain a community of students that is as diverse as possible, the following criteria are used in the selection of new students entering the school:
- A balance of boys and girls
- A pronounced willingness on the part of the student to "try" in all aspects of the program
- Families from different racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups
- Students with different personalities, learning styles and individual talents
- Families from different geographic areas and schools
- Special circumstances such as foreign students
- It is understood that each family will be supportive of the school.
Diversity welcome
The Santa Barbara Middle School welcomes and admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, religious preference, learning differences or handicapping conditions and does not discriminate in the administration of its full range of programs and policies.
