When I am asked for our key to success, I tell people that there is no simple formula. Yet a few things
stand out - at Bowdon Middle School, our expectations run high. Students expect to succeed and teachers hold high expectations for student performance. The mediocre or average is not good enough. The students of this middle school know their strengths and capabilities. We set high standards and even higher goals - and then we get down to work and do so with determination, knowing that, in the end, to give less than 100 percent is a betrayal. It is giving more than 100 percent that separates the champions from the average.