Compton-Drew ILC Middle School

We look forward to a collaborative, investigative, and exhibit-driven school year -  challenging our scholars' investigative minds to empower their future!  The Compton-Drew ILC Middle School experience, by design, is intended to provide an extraordinary learning environment for all students.  The unique program is designed to assist students and involve parents in quality educational opportunities.  Our approach to education is to focus on the advancement of knowledge and encourage proficiency in all academic disciplines through a centered program that provides students with the necessary skills, concepts, and attitudes that empower the learner to "continue the tradition of excellence" in the classroom and beyond.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Compton-Drew ILC Middle School will foster a learning community through collaboration of teacher-facilitated and student-directed life-long learning.  Our community will celebrate diversity through inclusionary representations of all societal elements.  We will engage our young citizens for active lives in a democratic society, fostering leadership and respect for individual cultural values.

We believe it is a shared responsibility of Compton-Drew ILC staff, faculty, parents, students, and the community to implement a program that embodies the concept that education is a growth process, by which people make choices that promote learning to think and act more effectively.

Our school is named in honor of two distinguished scientists, Dr. Arthur Holly COMPTON, former chancellor of Washington University, noted physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and Dr. Charles Richard DREW, an African-American surgeon who developed techniques for processing and storing blood plasma for use in transfusions.

“Each day at Compton-Drew Investigative Learning Center Middle School, I will meet the personal, social, and intellectual challenges that attempt to impede my educational goals.  I will demonstrate trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, compassion, and citizenship.  I will do all of this so that I may actualize my potential, have self-pride, and achieve academic excellence.”

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“Continuing the Tradition of Excellence!”

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