Welcome to McCracken Junior High School

Welcome to McCracken Junior High School, home of the Eagles. McCracken has a long history of providing a world class education to our students. We have a dynamic staff of teachers committed to excellence in education. I am so proud to call McCracken Junior High School my home and I consider it an honor to serve as Principal.

Junior High provides students with the foundation necessary for success in high school. We take this job very seriously and work to provide your child with engaging learning experience steeped in research based best practices, many excellent arts related experiences, outstanding athletic programs, clubs and extra-curricular activities, and many leadership opportunities.

Green Steps School

We are a Green Steps School. Please visit the official web site at: GreenStepSchools.com

We are working with our community to help everyone have a better world! We are focusing on three areas in our Green Steps plan:
1.) PROTECT: Air (B2), 2.) PROTECT: Litter Patrol, 3.) RESTORE: Habitat

Green Steps is a new environmental education initiative. The goal of this program is to encourage individual schools to take annual steps toward becoming more environmentally responsible. This program is sponsored by S.C.RCC (resource conservation challenge), Sonoco Recycling and keep the Midlands Beautiful. Each year, participating schools apply to work on a project under one or more of the following categories: conserve, protect, and restore. Mentors from the public and private sector offer guidance in planning, executing, and judging school projects. At the end of each school year, schools share results with other schools and are awarded certificates for project(s) completed. Erica Shanks from Upstate Forever has been the MJH mentor. Many of our District schools have recycling projects, litter pick-up, beautification areas, and are anti-idling zones. We can have all of our schools certified as Green Step Schools by just applying for one of these projects in each school.

"The Air We Breathe" is a collaborative effort of the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce, the Spartanburg Development Association, Upstate Forever, and Spartanburg County government, to reduce ground-level ozone and other forms of air pollution in Spartanburg County. The goal of this campaign is to inform the general public about the impacts of ozone on community health, economic development and overall quality of life, and the easy behavioral changes they can make in their daily lives to decrease ground-level ozone. Please visit "The Air We Breathe" website at: www.cleanairspartanburg.com

We're Helping Save the World, One Step at a Time

No Book Left Unread Summer Reading Program

Join us as we participate in the No Book Left Unread (NBLU): Make a Summer Splash! 2010 Summer Reading Program.

All information and forms for NBLU 2010 will be available online by May 1st Everything you need will be found at No Book Left Unread. Don't forget to participate in your local public library's summer reading program as well. NBLU participants will count minutes read and not pages read. Participants may read books, magazines (the pages should contain at least 50% text), newspapers, as well as online reading (books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, wikis, etc.). Students as well as any faculty and staff members can participate in the program! We still have only one reading log for students. There are free prizes available for the winner who reads the most minutes! Thanks for your continued support of this summer reading program. All logs are due by the end of August 2010. Happy reading! StudentSummerReadingLog.pdf
FacultySummerReadingLog.pdf