Indian Trail Middle School offers multiple support services to students. Please contact the main office or your student’s counselor for additional information.

SIT Team

The goal of a Student Intervention Team (SIT) is to build supports for students who are experiencing academic or behavioral problems, as well as those who work with them. Our SITs utilize the problem-solving cycle of Problem Identification, Problem Analysis, Intervention & Progress Monitoring, and Evaluative Decision. A SIT for any student may include an administrator, a counselor, general and special education teachers, the school psychologist and/or social worker, parents, and the student whose needs are being addressed.

Counseling Services

Individual Counseling: Students, parents, teachers, and administrators may choose to consult with the counselors about individual student concerns, classroom management, the interpretation of test results, and future course selection and academic plans. Teachers are encouraged to consult with the counselors as a means to identify causes of student academic and behavior problems. In some instances, a counselor will visit the student in an attempt to develop a more positive student effort prior to any disciplinary action being taken by a school administrator.

Student Schedule Changes: The counselor will do individual scheduling, following district and administrative guidelines.

Student Records: Permanent records of students are kept in the counseling office and include personal information, health information, testing results, grades, and student schedules. If access to this information is desired, please ask the counselors or data operator. Removal of student records from the counseling office is not permitted.

Withdrawing Students: When students are withdrawing from school, parents should notify the data operator. A withdrawal sheet shall be issued to the student through the guidance office. On the student’s last day at school, each teacher should report any current outstanding fees the student has accrued and assign the grade the student has earned so far that quarter. The teacher should then initial the form.

Enrollment Information

Students presently attending Olathe public schools: Course selection for the next school year will be conducted by the counselors in January. Students will be given a list of course options and will have about a week to submit their course requests for the following year. All requests must be signed by one parent. Students must submit at least three acceptable alternates to the elective courses they request. Parents will be invited to an enrollment information night at which they will receive information pertinent to course selection for their child.

Students with special education Individual Educational Plans (IEPs): Students’ IEP considerations will guide their course placement.

Students enrolling from outside the Olathe district: Parents should call the school to set up an appointment with the appropriate counselor to enroll. Parents should bring to the meeting proof of their residential address (such as their driver’s license, a utility bill, or a signed lease or purchase agreement), their child’s birth certificate, their child’s social security number, their child’s most recent report card, their child’s most recent I.E.P. if the child receives special education services, proof of custody if the child no longer lives with both parents listed on the birth certificate, the name and address of the child’s previous school.