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Quick Facts
Special features after-school care
Dress code Uniforms required

School Mission
  • Mulholland Middle School is focused on educating and nurturing a community of learners in a safe, caring, and supportive environment while providing a personal and academic foundation where all learners will become literate, economically competitive, and personally responsible in a local and global community

Curriculum
  • Immersion programs in ASL.
  • Special education programs designed specifically for students with autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, hearing impairments, language or speech impairment, specific learning disabilities and orthopedic impairments.
  • This school has a particular instructional focus on hands-on learning, project-based instruction.
 
 
Instructional Program Highlights
  • Technology Integrated throughout four content areas: English, Math, Science, & Social Studies
  • Online writing program: Vantage
  • Online Standards-based student standards tutoring program
  • School is divided up into 5 Houses with distinct themes. Houses are vertical 6-8 semi-autonamous units

Activities and Sports
  • Clubs and extra-curricular activities include: LA AllStars afterschool Enrichment Program; Youth Service Afterschool playground; Afterschool Mariachi Club; Afterschool Chess Club; Afterschool Academic Tutoring and Afterschool Mentoring and Counseling.
  • This school has the following art(s) programs: orchestra, band, theater/drama, art and chorus.
 
 
Technology and Facilities
  • This school has 4 students per computer. Numbers used to calculate this ratio were provided by the principal. This ratio may differ from the ratio given elsewhere on this profile where the numbers were provied by the state.
  • 100% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
  • This school was established between 1960-1969.
  • District provides transportation for special education students only
 
 
Admissions and Enrollment
  • Entering students typically come from: Bassett Elementary; Gault Street Elmentary and Lemay Elementary.
  • Graduates typically go to: Birmingham HS, Van Nuys; Monroe HS, Northridge and Reaeda HS, Reseda.
  • Almost all of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
 
 
Safety, Discipline and Support
  • Safety and discipline-related resources include: Security guard(s) (full or part-time); Metal detector; Peer mediation or conflict resolution program; After school or lunchtime detentions; In-school suspension;
 
 
Other Features and Highlights
  • Principal has been at this school for 7 years.
 
 
Source of Data
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 10/28/2005. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.  

 
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