Joyce Clark Middle School

Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 🌈 He taught us to be kind, fair, and to stand up for what is right. Let’s remember his dream by using our words to help, our actions to care, and our hearts to include everyone. 💙 We hope everyone enjoys their day off, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone back at school tomorrow! 😊

SVUSD took a select group of educators to Oklahoma City for a three-day leadership experience. During this time, our team collaborated with professionals from across the country to explore best practices and effective methods for improving our schools. We drafted action plans, shared ideas, discussed common challenges, and identified potential solutions to bring back to our sites. We are excited to put this work into action and look forward to seeing these efforts come to fruition for our students, staff, and community.

We are celebrating the hard work of our teachers and staff who have helped our students achieve strong academic growth in Math, ELA, and Science. We are incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made together and excited to continue this upward trend! To show our appreciation, don’t forget to stop by the Teachers’ Lounge to celebrate your 💜SWEET SUCCESS 💜. We have donuts, muffins, tea, coffee, and all kinds of syrups to satisfy your sweet tooth. Thank you for your dedication, teamwork, and commitment to our students! Hurry in before the doughnut lord takes them all!

Huge shout-out to our Student Council for all their fundraising efforts. JCMS has a mascot! 🎉 Pablo the Coyote surprised students all over campus today, and the excitement was unreal. What a fun day… the Coyote way!

It's the season for: •Girls Basketball 🏀 •Boys Soccer ⚽️ •co-ed Wrestling. 🤼

All district and school offices will be closed for Winter Break as we take time to rest, recharge, and enjoy the season.

We can’t wait to welcome everyone back on January 5, when students return to school.

Wishing you a safe, joyful, and relaxing winter break!
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! 🎄✨

Shout out to Ms. Hays and her awesome Student Council members! They came out and provided festive ❤️💚 face painting for the student body. We even had surprise visits from the Gingerbread Man, the Grinch, and a Christmas Tree! 🎄✨ Student Council also sold and delivered Grinch Grams, spreading smiles all over campus. They do an amazing job promoting school spirit, and we are so grateful for their energy and creativity! 💜

The admin team pulled together to gift a small token of appreciation to every employee. We are a big school with many moving parts, and the only way we accomplish all that we do is by relying on one another. We are truly grateful for every member of our Coyote family! 🐺💜

We ended our first semester by breaking bread together. We are incredibly grateful to our PTSO for providing a wonderful variety of delicious soups, salads, and desserts. They make us feel appreciated all year long. The meal and camaraderie were the perfect way to close out a successful first half of the year. We wish our families happy holidays. May you rest, recharge, and spend meaningful time with your loved ones. See you in 2026! 🎉

Dear Families,

Emergency medical services are currently at JCMS assisting a staff member who experienced a medical emergency. We want to assure you that there is no threat to the school, and all students are safe and continuing with their normal schedule.

We appreciate the quick and caring response of our staff, students, and EMS.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Sincerely,
Principal Paz

Congratulations to our Boys Basketball Team and our Girls Soccer Team! We celebrated both teams at our sports banquet last night, and it was a wonderful way to honor an incredible season. We are deeply grateful to our Athletic Director, coaches, parents, and community for making the evening so special. Our student-athletes enjoyed a generous feast provided by our community partners, Pepsi and Little Caesars. The win was the perfect ending to a truly memorable season.

Hello JCMS Family! I hope you all had and are having a great Thanksgiving break. I just wanted to extend a Belated Happy Thanksgiving from some of our disguised turkeys at JCMS. They made it without being eaten because of their creative disguises. Including our President Trump Turkey. Coyotes, the Turkeys are very thankful for your designs that kept them hanging away from danger.

We would like to recognize our very own ELA teacher, Miss Macias! Despite her young age, she has already accomplished so much. She has proven herself to be an exceptional educator, and today she earned her Master’s in Educational Leadership. Great job, Miss Macias! 🎉👏

The lockdown drill is now complete. Thank you for your cooperation.

We are currently performing a lockdown drill. There is no emergency at this time.

We have ample room and tables inside the cafeteria, but they would rather scrunch together, under the sun, on their favorite bench. 💜

A little late but great! We're super proud of our students for earning Honor Roll, Principal's List, and Perfect Attendance during the first quarter of the year. We have a great bunch of students 💜 We can't wait to celebrate them again for their efforts in Quarter 2 which ends soon!

Congratulations to the JCMS Coyotes and their victory over Huber

We are currently experiencing issues with our NWEA testing platform, which means today’s testing will be postponed. Our team is actively troubleshooting and we hope to have the problem resolved by the end of the day. A revised testing schedule will be sent out as soon as we have more information. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Let's finish strong and have fun doing it! Join the fun this holiday season! ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚