Description of school:
We are a magnet school for academically gifted students. We are a full-time school for 400 gifted middle school children in the city of Virginia Beach. We are a public school and all of our children are from the city of Virginia Beach. We are on a 100 minute block schedule, which means our students competing in this Olympics have PE every other day. The PE classes avergae 30 - 35 students each. All of our 6th grade students have to take Latin I as a required course. This is the same Latin I that is taught at the high school level, so our students are getting high school credits in the 6th grade. All 7th grade students take Algebra I, and all 8th grade students take Geometry. Latin II is also offered for those who do extremely well in Latin I, and we are thinking of offering Latin III next year. Spanish I, II, and III are currently offered. These are all high school credit courses. Our students will be competing on grass. We do not have a track.

Community:
Virginia Beach is the most populated city in Virginia. With 450,000+ people, our school system serves over 75,000 students. We have a large military presence with Oceana Nava Air Station, the only US base for the navy's f-14 fighter jets. (This is the same airplane that was used in the movie Top Gun.) This is also a very big tourist area with over 30 miles of beachfront. Virginia Beach is part of the Hampton Roads community that includes Norfolk, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, and Newport News. This metropolitan area has over 1.5 million people.

Description of sports:
rollerblading, STXball, soccer, badminton, floor hockey, and of course the big 3--basketball, football, and softball. Mind you, these are all sports that are done in PE. Our school does not have any interscholastic sports.

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