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Carmel Middle


This is a photograph of students from Carmel Middle School at the habitat pond at the 10-acre Hilton Bialek Habitat.

The campus includes the award-winning 10-acre Hilton Bialek Habitat, an environmental education nature center run in partnership with MEarth. The Habitat hosts nearly 2,000 students annually from across the Monterey Peninsula in a LEED Silver-certified green building. Habitat programming including Ecoliteracy, Nature Studies, Social Studies, English-Language Arts, and World Language, seamlessly integrates sustainability education into curriculum lessons and activities. Camel Middle School uses and energy management system to continually monitor energy use, and will implement 1:1 computing for all students in 2015, with the goal of moving paper consumption toward zero.

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Last Reviewed: Tuesday, November 5, 2024