Dodgen Middle School

Middle school

Dodgen Middle School
Location

1725 Bill Murdock Road Marietta, Georgia United States^[1]
Information
Type	Middle school
Established	1975
School district	Cobb County School District^[1]
Principal	Patricia Alford^[2]
Faculty	70 (as of 2022–23)^[1]
Grades	6–8^[1]
Enrollment	1,222 (as of 2022–23)^[1]
Student to teacher ratio	17.43 (as of 2022–23)^[1]
Nickname	Panthers
Feeder to	Walton High School Pope High School
Website	School website

Dodgen Middle School is a middle school located in East Cobb, Georgia, United States, and is part of the Cobb County School District. As of 2024, the current principal is Patrcia Alford, and its assistant principals are Carrie Lowery, Derika Hannibal, and Ruth Hesson. ^[3]

As of the 2022-2023 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,222 students and 70 teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 17.43.^[1]

Awards and achievements

In the 2011–2012 school year, Dodgen Middle School was named as a participating school in The Clean Air Campaign.^[4]

In 2012, a statue was unveiled commemorating a student, Doug Sklenka, achieving a streak of 144 straight four square victories to cap off an undefeated 6th grade year. Sklenka won an additional 101 tether ball games, another record that still stands today.

In 2013, Dodgen Middle School was awarded the Georgia Schools of Excellence Award by Barack Obama.^[5]

Dodgen's Science Olympiad team won their state competition in 2013 and then became the first Cobb County middle school to qualify for the national competition.^[6] The team also won first place in the state competition in all four years during 2015–2018.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, the Dodgen Orchestra won first place in the Middle School Division of the National Orchestra Festival held by the American String Teachers Association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[7]

In 2018, one of Dodgen's 7th grade math teachers, Fred Veeder, was announced CCSD Teacher of the Year.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Dodgen Middle School, National Center for Education Statistics, October 1, 2015.
^ Dodgen Middle School, Cobb County School District, June 10, 2020.
^ "Administration". Cobb County. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
^ Wendy Parker, East Cobb Schools Get Clean Air Props, East Cobb Patch, October 1, 2015.
^ "CCSD Awards and Honors". www.cobbk12.org. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
^ "Dodgen middle-schoolers win state Science Olympiad, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 1, 2015.
^ "Dodgen Middle orchestra plucks its way to national title, Marietta Daily Journal, March 11, 2017.
^ Abusaid, Shaddi. "Dodgen math instructor named Cobb's teacher of the year". MDJOnline.com. Retrieved 2019-07-20.