Our Campus

Welcome to Wood

Welcome to Wood Middle School, home of the Wranglers. At Wood, we believe middle school is a time to explore, discover what interests you, and keep getting better.

Our campus is committed to developing confident, independent thinkers while recognizing that every student has different strengths, interests, and learning needs. Through strong academics, individualized support, and an exceptional variety of electives and extracurricular experiences, students have opportunities to connect with their school, develop new skills, and discover what they are capable of achieving.

At Wood, our challenge is simple: Be Better.

What Makes Wood Special

32 Ways—and Counting—to Find Your Thing

Wood offers 32 elective choices, giving students an unusually broad range of opportunities to explore their interests. From mariachi and musical theater to dance, computer science, robotics, agriculture, and more, students can try something new, develop a talent, and connect with others who share their interests.

Agriculture for Every Grade Level

Wood is the only NEISD middle school offering Agriculture courses at every grade level. Students can explore food science, investigate agricultural careers, care for chickens, grow plants in raised beds, and build hands-on skills. Eighth-grade students can also take Intro to Agriculture for high school credit, creating a natural foundation for students interested in continuing into agriscience opportunities at Madison High School.

Build. Program. Compete.

Wood’s robotics program gives students the opportunity to turn problem-solving, engineering, and technology into hands-on experience. Students can begin robotics in sixth grade and take a high-school-credit robotics course in eighth grade. Wood teams have consistently advanced to major competitions, giving students opportunities to test their skills well beyond the classroom.

Be Better

Being a Wrangler isn't about starting at the same place as everyone else. It is about continually improving from where you are today. Students are encouraged to set goals, recognize their progress, challenge themselves, and become more confident and independent learners. Whether that growth happens in the classroom, on the stage, in competition, or through a new interest, every Wrangler can find a way to Be Better.

6th through 8th

Grades Served

Burnt Orange & White

School Colors

Wrangler

School Mascot

1980

Year of Establishment

Mariachi

The Wood Mariachi Juvenil Los Charros is a unique ensemble offered at Wood MS. We are the only Mariachi program in the district that holds classes daily. We perform across the district and the city throughout the year. The Mariachi Class offers students multiple opportunities to learn various instruments. Students enjoy singing and performing!

Academic UIL

Academic Contests open to all middle school students. These cover all the TEKS our students will need to learn in middle school. We offer Math, Number Sense (Mental Math), Calculator Skills, Maps-Charts-Graphs, Social studies, Spelling, Science, Dictionary Skills, and Chess Puzzles.

AG

We offer 3 agriculture courses for our students. Food science is available for our 6th grade students, investigating careers for 7th grade, and Intro to Ag in 8th grade. The 8th grade course is a high school credit. We have a chicken coup and chickens for our Ag students to raise. Our students are building raised beds to start growing flowers, fruits and vegetables.

Dance

Robotics

We offer 2 robotics courses for our students. Students can take robotics in 6th grade and again in 8th grade for high school credit. We are one of the top performing programs in the state. We have qualified teams for the state competition for 10 straight years. In the past 2 years alone, we have qualified 11 teams for state, nationals, and world’s competitions.

Musical Theater

We began offering musical theater in the 2021-2022 school year. We have had over 50 students sign up each year for this unique elective. We have had a major week-long performance of Moana.

Be better

We began using Be Better as our school motto during the 2022-2023 school year. This decision was made because we can measure how much better we get. For example, we can chart how much better we do on a test, or on a run, or in the weight room. Being Better is something tangible that we can strive for. Being Better is something that we can all attain no matter what our present level is. Being better is something that we can use as motivation for continual improvement. To be a Wood Wrangler is to Be Better.

9-11 tile

Our Texas History teacher at the time, Kathy Padilla, invited each of our students to add a tile to this mural to pay tribute to the victims and families of the victims of the September 11th tragedy. This mural was completed in 2002.

Time capsule

The time capsule was created as a school project in 1987 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Constitution Day.

Some of the items included a Coca Cola can, Converse sneakers, and various magazines and newspapers.

The headline on one of the newspapers was about Pope John Paul's visit to San Antonio.

Back then, there were two newspapers in town -- the San Antonio Express-News and the San Antonio Light.

The time capsule also included a picture of a rotary phone, a cassette tape, a VHS tape and a floppy disc.

NEISD Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian G. Gottardy was a guest speaker at the event. He said he started his career as a teacher at Wood Middle School.

David Dunn was a student at the school when the time capsule was hidden in 1987. He had the opportunity to unlock the time capsule, along with his son, Cameron, who is now a student at the school.

"I remembered a lot of it -- the movie, cassette tapes, the Converse shoes," he said. "It was a trip down memory lane."

"It was pretty cool. I liked it," said Cameron Dunn.

After the unveiling ceremony, students packed modern treasures into a new time capsule, so students in the future will get to have a similar experience.