Sunnyvale Middle School is located in the Sunnyvale Elementary School District in Sunnyvale, California. It is one of the two grade 6–8 middle schools located in the ten-school district, the other being Columbia Middle School. The school mascot is a Spartan.
The school opened in the 1960s as Mango Junior High School. In 1982 the name was changed to Sunnyvale Junior High School and it became the only grade 7-8 junior high school in the district. In 1994 the school became Sunnyvale Middle School.
In 1992 and 1999, Sunnyvale Middle School was recognized as a California Distinguished School, an award given by the California State Board of Education to public schools within the state that best represent exemplary and quality educational programs.
During the 1999-2000 school year, the school was awarded the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education. Based on the 2010 CST scores, Sunnyvale Middle School's API score was 843, an increase of 38 points from 2009.
Notable alumni include:
- Teri Hatcher (when the school was Mango Junior High School)
- 2006 Nobel Laureate in medicine, Dr. Andrew Fire (when the school was Mango Junior High School)
- Adragon De Mello (when the school was Sunnyvale Junior High School)
- Bill Green former American Record Holder in Track and Field and 5th in the hammer throw in the 1984 Summer Olympics (attended when the school was Mango Junior High School)
Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or school:
“The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations.... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything—getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. We can’t have permissiveness. When someone comes in and says, “Oh, your room is so quiet,” I know I’ve been successful.”
—Rose Hoffman, U.S. public school third-grade teacher. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973)