| DCMS has a student population from the following settlements in South Eleuthera: Tarpum Bay, Rock Sound, Green Castle, Wemyss Bight, Waterford and Deep Creek. In grade seven the students join us at DCMS from a variety of government primary schools. After grade nine students go on to the local government or private high school or attend boarding school in the US or Canada.
We have a maximum class size of fourteen students in each of the grades. For the 2007-2008 school year, we have 33 students in our student body. Our school day runs from 8:05am to 2:20pm and we have an average of 165 school days during our school year. |
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History
Deep Creek Middle School and Resource Center (DCMS) was founded in September 2001 with the goal of increasing access to educational resources for people in South Eleuthera. The school has grown from 16 students in grades 7 & 8, to 33 students in grades 7, 8, & 9 and has made numerous opportunities available to students and families that otherwise would not have been possible. The After School Program has been in place since the school’s inception and runs 2 afternoons a week and on Saturday mornings. This program works with children from 8-18 years of age as well as adults in the community.
Deep Creek Middle School operates as a division of the Cape Eleuthera Island School, a Bahaman non-profit company whose mission it is to provide place-based education, scientific research, and community leadership in order to move toward a more livable future on Eleuthera and throughout the world. DCMS works closely with The Island School and the Cape Eleuthera Institute to offer students a unique academic experience that connects them more intimately with their environment and on-going research being conducted in South Eleuthera.
As DCMS is fully recognized as an independent school by the Bahamian Ministry of Education, students participate in national testing and report scores to the regional superintendent in Savannah Sound.
Curriculum
The Middle School’s curriculum is based on schemes created by the Bahamian Ministry of Education. These schemes operate in a spiral fashion, exposing students to various topics within subjects and revisiting topics at a more advanced level each year. Core subjects taught at the Middle School are:
