Home of AMS P.R.I.D.E.!

5525 Shelbourne Rd
Arbutus, Maryland 21227

Kendra V. Johnson, Esq. Principal

Matthew Bayne Assistant Principal

Bill Atkins Assistant Principal

The Arbutus Middle School academic school year office hours are 7:30am - 3:15pm. The school voicemail system will be activated outside of these hours and during school wide meetings.
Phone:	(410) 887-1402	Guidance :	(410) 887-1404
Fax:	(410) 536-1164	Health :	(410) 536-0976
Library:	(410) 887-1469	Cafeteria:	(410) 887-1458

The homework hotline system is now online!  All teachers have a website that will be showing their homework assignments at the start of the school year. These can be accessed by clicking on the link above or at our Teams and Contacts page. Please note that the student agenda book is the primary mode of communication between and home and school.  The teacher website is to be used by parents/guardians to support, if needed, the homework completion process at home.  There may be technological challenges that prevent the website from working and/or the teacher from posting.  As such, the agenda book is the primary source for recording homework.  Parents/guardians are asked to support the school by stressing this point with his/her AMS student.

Explore what your child is learning in class. Please click on the link, http://www.bcps.org/apps/AIMpublic/, and find out what your child is doing.

PARENT/GUARDIAN VISITATION Parents or legal guardians are welcomed to visit the Arbutus Middle School.  We respectfully request that parents/guardians provide grade level administrators with 24 hours notice to notify the teacher that a visitor will be in his/her classroom.  Every effort is made to balance the needs of parents/guardians with the needs of other students in the classroom.

PARENT/GUARDIAN CHECK POLICY NOTIFICATION To save the school several hundreds of dollars in collection fees and several hours of human resources, we no longer accept personal checks for gym uniforms, field trips, lost books, yearbooks, etc. (exception: AMS Cafeteria, which is a separate entity operated under the direction of the BCPS Food and Nutrition Office).  We understand this may be an inconvenience, but we have a fiscal responsibility to make decisions to conserve operating costs. We will accept money orders, bank issued cashier checks, and cash.  Staff will keep documentation of monies received, as well as give students a receipt.

January 4 Schools Reopen 12 8th Grade Basketball Games Vs. Golden Ring (4pm Start Time) 18 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Observed—Schools Closed 28 Second Marking Period Ends 28 Winter Dance (3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) 29 Assessment Day—Schools Closed For Students February 2 8th Grade Basketball Games Vs. Sparrows Point (4pm Start Time) 4 8th Grade Basketball Games Vs. Southwest Academy (4pm Start Time) 5 Student Council Bowl-A-Thon Fundraiser (3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.) 9 8th Grade Basketball Games Vs. Pine Grove (4pm Start Time) 11 Distribution of Second Quarter Report Cards 15 Presidents’ Day—Schools Closed 18 Variety Show (7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.) 23 8th Grade Basketball Games Vs. Catonsville (4pm Start Time) March 1-5 AMS Book Fair (Family Night on March 4th) 4 Family Art Night (6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.) 9 MSA and Mod-MSA Reading and Mathematics Begin 15 Interim Distribution 18 Parent-Teacher Conferences (4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.) 18 MSA and Mod-MSA Reading and Mathematics Conclude 23 3-On-3 Basketball Championships—Rain Date, March 25 (3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.) 25 Music Side-By-Side Concert (6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.) 26 Easter/Spring Break Begins at End of School Day