About Our School
Neelsville Middle School is located in the northern suburbs of Montgomery County, Maryland, about 40 miles north of Washington, D. C. Neelsville has approximately 900 students in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
School Improvement Plan (SIP)
NMS Linkages Chart Reading (09-10)
NMS Linkages Chart Math (09-10)
PBIS
PBIS (positive behavior interventions and supports) is a program implemented at Neelsville Middle School to encourage students to demonstrate positive behavior within the Neelsville Middle School Community. This includes exhibiting positive behavior not only within the school, but in the surrounding community and at home as well.
Students at Neelsville Middle School are expected to be:
Examples of respect and responsibility have been identified by the students, and were developed into a PBIS matrix. This matrix includes ways to demonstrate respect and responsibility in the classrooms, hallways, locker banks, cafeteria, bathrooms, and the buses.
To support our program at NMS, students participate in a weekly activity during Knight Time to develop and reinforce their understanding of the positive behaviors they are expected to demonstrate. Students who exhibit these positive behaviors are rewarded with tickets that can be redeemed for items at the school store and/or a quarterly celebration. Those students who need additional support to be respectful and responsible may participate in different interventions that reinforce PBIS expectations.
NMS Vision
The Neelsville Middle School staff, students, parents, and community are devoted to the concept that Neelsville is the “School of the Universe”; we continuously seek ways to improve in order to fulfill the premise that with effective effort all students can experience academic success and develop a sense of personal and social responsibility. We provide a structured and rigorous learning experience and opportunities to explore a variety of interests that values our diversity and respects student individuality.
NMS History
Neelsville MS has a short but interesting history. Our facility was actually constructed in 1981; another school used the building for fifteen years, then moved in 1996 to a new building about three miles away. Our staff and students moved into the facility in the summer of 1996, and the building got a fresh coat of paint and a new look to welcome the new occupants. The name of our school was taken from a small community named Neelsville that used to exist in the area where our school now resides. Neelsville Middle School was dedicated to the students and community it serves on May 18, 1997. We are in the Watkins Mill and Clarksburg clusters of schools, with our students coming from Daly ES, South Lake ES, Stedwick ES, and Fox Chapel ES and going to Watkins Mill HS and Clarksburg HS in the ninth grade.