Browse past news stories for Northwestern Middle School in Zachary, LA.

• Public school students performance gains (The Advocate)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 07:28:37 pm
  State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek speaks with a handful of students from Northwestern Middle School in Zachary in this Oct. 6, 2009, photo.
• Students create video games (The Advocate)
  posted on June 29, 2009 at 05:15:26 am
  Team leader Jared Landry of Vandebilt Catholic High School, standing right, observes as Zachary students Collin Shelton, seated, and Charlie Flanders work Friday to build a computer game that mixes fun with an educational element — in this case, sources of cleaner energy.
• Central teen hit by car, dies (The Advocate)
  posted on May 20, 2009 at 06:00:52 am
  CENTRAL — A 14-year-old girl who had just taken two final exams Tuesday morning and was planning to spend the afternoon shopping with her grandmother was struck and killed by a car as the girl stepped into the road to check the mail.