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Harry S. Truman Middle School
Address
5801 N. 35th St. Tacoma, WA, Pierce, 98407 USA
Coordinates	47°16′48″N 122°30′48.60″W / 47.28°N 122.5135°W / 47.28; -122.5135Coordinates: 47°16′48″N 122°30′48.60″W / 47.28°N 122.5135°W / 47.28; -122.5135
Information
School type	Public
School district	Tacoma Public Schools
Principal	Pat Robinson
Vice principal	Robert Arial
Grades	6th-8th
Athletics	Track, Fastpitch, Baseball, Soccer, Volleyball, Wrestling, Dance, and Basketball
Mascot	Titan
Rival	Mustangs
Website	www.tacoma.k12.wa.us

Contents 1 School statement 2 Ethnicity 3 History 4 Classrooms 5 Teams 6 Teachers

[edit] School statement

Truman Middle School provides the best possible education for all students, stressing excellence, citizenship and lifelong learning. Truman is focused on grade-level instructional teams for math, language arts, science and social studies. The teaming approach provides an opportunity to promote positive relationships between students, parents and teachers. Go Titans!

[edit] Ethnicity

Ethnicity	Amount	Percent
African-American	114	16.6%
Asian	35	5.1%
Indian	7	1%
Hispanic/Latino	34	5%
White	496	72.3%

[edit] History

In 2001, The Old Truman Middle School received some of Mason Middle School's students because Mason was building a new school. In the 1990s, Truman Middle School was also making a new campus in Pearl and 35th street of Tacoma the new building was opened in the school year 1999-2000 but it was not all done at that time many details needed to be finished but luckily that did not affect the education of the students, for example the clock tower it was completely finished but it was not installed (they installed it in the middle of the school year) and today it still has some difficulties the hour hand is missing and it does not move. The first teacher to see the campus is probably Nanci Cornell who took the 1998-1999 7th graders on a fieldtrip to see their new school. The other teachers saw it later in August.

[edit] Classrooms

Truman Middle School has state of the art classrooms with laser projectors and at least four or five Mac computers. Also each classroom counts with a tv and a VHS except for science classrooms whc actually have two Televisions.So far there are 4 computer labs in Truman Middle School one in the library another one in The Red Team (upstairs 6th grade) another one in The Purple Team (next to Red Team) and one in the Green Team (next to Blue Team (which is the 6th grade downstairs). The art room includes a dark room,thr art room and is the size of two stacked rooms for hanging pieces of art. The science room (2704) in the Purple team and the Science room in the Green Team (1804) are considered being some of the safest classrooms because both have a closet that can be used for hiding on a lock down.

[edit] Teams

• Blue Team ( Classrooms 1602-1605)
• Red Team (Classrooms 2101-2104)
• Purple Team (Classrooms 2701-2704)
• Yellow Team (Classrooms 2707-2710)
• Green Team (Classrooms 1801-1804)
• Orange Team (Classrooms 1807-1810)
• Rainbow Team (Classroom 2014)

[edit] Teachers

Blue Team

• Social Studies-Michele Lewis
• Math-Barbara Honan-Olsen
• Science- Cynthia Stewart