Walter Reed Middle School

Walter Reed Middle School
Walter Reed Middle School
Location
4525 Irvine Avenue Studio City, CA, 91602 Los Angeles, California United States
Information
Type	Public
Motto	Be safe, Be responsible, Be respectful. Have a nice day.
Established	September 1939
School district	Los Angeles Unified School District
President	TBA
Dean	Edward Torres
Principal	Jeanne Gamba, Dr. Jelin, Mr. Segura
Faculty	70
Grades	6 - 8
Enrollment	~1,800
Campus size	Medium
Campus type	Urban
Color(s)	Green, white
Athletics	lacrosse
Mascot	Wolves
Information	818-487-7600
Website	Official website

Walter Reed Middle School is located in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. Originally called North Hollywood Junior High School, the school was later renamed in honor of U.S. Army Major Walter Reed.

The school is a part of Local District 2 of the Los Angeles Unified School District and feeds into North Hollywood High School. Several areas, including parts of North Hollywood, Valley Village, Studio City and Woodbridge Park, are zoned to Reed.

In 2017 the school received budget cuts since the percentage of non-Hispanic/Latino white students reached 30%; this occurred because of a state law established in the 1970s stating that schools with populations of white students below 30% get extra funding. Parents at Reed opposed the funding decrease.

The school offers a variety of special academic programs: the Individualized Honors Program (IHP), the School for Advanced Studies (SAS), the Humanities Academy, the Technology and Media Arts Academy, the S.T.E.A.M. Academy, and the Environmental Sciences Academy. IHP was described by Time magazine as "perhaps the most successful junior-high curriculum in the U.S.". Founded in 1971 by William Fitz-Gibbon, the IHP's purpose is to serve the needs of highly gifted children. IHP students are usually one or two levels above average grade math classes. Pre-algebra and algebra are taught in 6th grade, algebra and geometry in 7th grade, and geometry and algebra 2 in 8th grade.

The school has a very active parent body organized under its PTSA.

In 1971, the school established the Individualized Honors Program (IHP) co-founded by William Fitz-Gibbon. The parents who place their children in the program want them to be social peers; the students would otherwise be able to skip middle school and enroll directly in high school or in some cases tertiary education.

Television shows filmed there include Head of the Class (which was based on Reed's IHP program; one of the actors on the show was an IHP graduate), Growing Pains, 7th Heaven, Parks and Recreation, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, CSI, Malcolm in the Middle, Parenthood, The West Wing and Tell Me You Love Me.