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Ashe County Middle School. Inquiry Project by: Karli Dempski, Madison Lewis, Samantha Taylor, Brad Bentley, Jacob Fleming, Emma Willard, and Andru Lockridge. Economy. Home ownership rate: 80.2% Median Household income: $36,498 Private Establishments: 560 Private Employment: 5,389
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Ashe County Middle School Inquiry Project by: Karli Dempski, Madison Lewis, Samantha Taylor, Brad Bentley, Jacob Fleming, Emma Willard, and AndruLockridge
Economy • Home ownership rate: 80.2% • Median Household income: $36,498 • Private Establishments: 560 • Private Employment: 5,389 • Median House value: $154,100
Politics • Number of Voters: 12,847 — 67.54% of register voters) • Presidential Election: • Barack Obama/Joe Biden (DEM): Ashe (32.65%) State (48.30%) • Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan (REP): Ashe (65.35%) State (50.44%) • Gary Johnson/James P. Gray (LIB): Ashe (1.43%) State (0.99%) • Straight Party: • Democratic (DEM): Ashe ( 36.86% ) State ( 55.52% ) • Republican (REP): Ashe ( 61.66% ) State ( 43.50% ) • Libertarian (LIB): Ashe ( 1.47% ) State ( 0.98% )
Recreation • Adult Leagues: • Softball • Basketball • Volleyball • Disc Golf • Youth Leagues: • Spring Soccer • Volleyball • Basketball • Football • Little League Baseball • Futsal • Top 5 Parks: • 1. Elk Knob State Natural Area • 2. Optimist park • 3. Watauga County Parks & Rec • 4. Children’s Playhouse • 5. Whitehead Community Center
Demographics • Population: 27,097 (-.7% from 2010) • 19% under 18. • 50.8% female • 93.1% white, .9% black, .3% American Indian/Alaska Native, .4% Asian, 1% two or more races, 4.8% Hispanic/Latino (all approximately) • 4.9% speak language other than English at home. • Percent of persons age 25+ with high school degree: 78.6% • Bachelors degree: 17.7% • Persons below poverty level: 17.9%
Religion • Southern Baptist Convention • 46 congregations: 1.24% of state's Southern Baptist Convention's 3,717 congregations. • 8,305 adherents: 0.55% of state's Southern Baptist Convention's 1,512,058 adherents. • United Methodist Church • 20 congregations: 1.02% of state's United Methodist Church's 1,964 congregations. • 2,148 adherents: 0.34% of state's United Methodist Church's 638,785 adherents. • Presbyterian Church (USA) • 6 congregations: 0.81% of state's Presbyterian Church (USA)'s 738 congregations. • 376 adherents: 0.18% of state's Presbyterian Church (USA)'s 203,647 adherents.
Education • In 2005, Ashe County Schools became one of the few districts to have internet access in all classrooms when they upgraded their system's Wide Area Network to a Fiber-optic network. • Five schools total- 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high school • Ashe County middle school was named 1 of 79 “middle schools to watch” by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform. It was 4 out of the 5 schools to receive the “School of Distinction” by the NCDPI both 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years.
Ashe County Elementary Schools • West Wood Elementary School • One Principal and One Vice Principal • 619 students • Mountainview Elementary School • One Principal and One Vice Principal • 588 students • Blue Ridge Elementary School • One Principal and One Vice Principal • 550 Students
Ashe County Middle And High School • Ashe County Middle School • One Principal and One Vice Principal • 550 Students • Ashe County High School • One Principal and Two Vice Principals • 920 Students
Survey Results: Religion • Attendhouse of Worship: • 31 students- Never • 153 students- Regularly • 38 students- 1-2 times a month • 16 students- Important holidays • 27 students- Didn’t answer • Didn’t answer: 12.45% • Christian: 83.7% • Agnostic: 1.1% • Atheist: 2.2% • Buddhist: .4% • Parents Identify as the same religion: • 216 said yes • 15 said no
Survey Results: Language LIKE A BOSS • Only 21 of the students said they curse at a rank 10 on a scale 1-10 • Most kids said under 5 rank • Bilingual- 84.2% said no, 15.8% said yes • Most who said yes spoke Spanish, or French YOLO SWAG CRAY RATCHET DAWG PWNED FAIL SNAP
Survey Results: Shoes Out of 265 3 99 50 5 7 45 7 12 3
Survey Results: Hobbies Play outside! Listen to Music Video Games Eat Watch TV Reading Horses 48.3% are not on a sports team, and 51.7% are on a sports team
Survey Results: Technology • Access to Internet: 93.3% • 6.7% don’t have Internet • 16.8% of students said they don’t have a cell phone • 83.2% of students said they had a cell phone • 5.4% don’t have a computer at home • 94.6% of students do have a computer at home • 14 say the have desktop computers, laptop, and tablets • 58 say just desktop • 129 students have a laptop • 16 students have tablets
Survey Results: Clothes • NEVER CAUGHT DEAD WEARING: • “All Black Spikey Chained Clothes” • Top 5: • Abercrombie • Hollister • American Eagle • Wal-Mart • Aeropostale • “Ugly Christmas Sweater” • “A shirt covers in cow dung” • “Being Butt-Naked” • “A Gay Rights Shirt” • “A very tight leotard with knee high orange socks and a bandana and Justin Bieber earrings”
Survey Results: Music • 51 students like Pop • 63 students like Rap • 76 students like Country • 21 students like Christian • 11 students like Metal/Screamo • 18 students like Rock • Jason Aldean • One Direction • Casting Crowns • Eric Church • Macklemore • Lil Wayne
Survey Results: Health • On a Scale from 1-10, how healthy would you consider yourself? • Rank 5- 34 students • Rank 6- 24 students • Rank 7- 38 students • Rank 8- 74 students • Rank 9- 36 students • Rank 10- 16 students • Grocery Stores they shop at: • Food Lion- 108 students • Wal-Mart- 200 students • Ingles- 135 students • Lowes Foods- 87 students
Survey Results: Relationships • On a scale from 1-10, how healthy would you consider your relationship with your parents? • Rank 5- 13 students • Rank 6- 11 students • Rank 7- 13 students • Rank 8- 27 students • Rank 9- 55 students • Rank 10- 95 students • Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? • 33.3% have a gf/bf • 66.6% don’t have a gf/bf
Survey Results: Social Sites • Facebook- 199 students • Instagram- 44 students • Myspace- 36 students • Blogs- 22 students • Tumblr- 31 students • Pinterest- 6 students • Skype- 3 students • Twitter- 74 students • No Site- 28 students
So What? From this, we learn all about how adolescents function inside Ashe County Middle School. We can pull things such as what they do to fit in, their home life situation, how healthy they are, and other social aspects of their lives from this research and we can apply it to things that we teach, how we relate to them, and how we can advocate from them the best. Because the adolescent time is one of the most significant developmental parts of their lives, we need to get to know these kids so that we can support them in everything that is going on.