Norris Middle School, located in Omaha, Neb., serves a student population in grades seven and eight. The school offers a wide range of different programs that serve students in English as a second language, programs for gifted children, speech therapy and provides a resource room for special education. It also offers a music program that offers beginning, intermediate and advanced classes in woodwind instruments, brass instruments, percussion instruments, tone chimes, stringed instruments, as well as chorus classes. The school has a number of active adopt-a-school partners and a parent-teacher association. It also offers various sports activities, such as cross country, soccer, football, swimming and basketball.