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Our mission is to "touch the future today" by assisting students to be motivated learners, productive citizens, and healthy human beings.

1. Provide quality curriculum and instructional strategies to enable all students to achieve academic success.
2. Create a school culture that promotes student’s self- esteem, responsible behavior, and mutual respect.
3. Promote a positive school environment that is safe and attractive.
4. Develop a school organization that fosters collaborative and shared leadership.
5. Maintain positive school and community partnerships.

Mary Putnam Henck Intermediate School provides a warm, stimulating environment where students are actively involved in learning academics as well as positive values. Students receive a standards-based, challenging curriculum by dedicated professional staff and based on the individual needs of the students. Ongoing evaluation of student progress and achievement helps us refine the instructional program so students can achieve academic proficiency.

Mary P. Henck Intermediate School is located in the northwestern region of Lake Arrowhead and serves students in grades six through eight following a traditional calendar. 

History
Mary Putnam Henck (1882-1963) well deserves to have a school named after her. After graduating from Los Angeles High School she attended the University of Berkeley and graduated in 1903. She became a teacher at Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, founded the Girl's League at Manual Arts Jefferson High School, and in 1918, became the school's first female vice-principal. Upon moving to Hemet, she was one of the founders of the Ramona Pageant. When she came to the mountains with her family in 1923 there were no schools for her children, or others who lived in scattered areas near Lake Arrowhead, to attend. While not the first teacher in the mountains, she was the first to organize parents and support groups to form a school district that would last into the 21st century.

The school first met in a doctor's office in the old Lake Arrowhead Village and the students were charged $0.50 for supplies. In 1925 the first school (now Fire Station No. 1) was built at a cost of $40,000. While Mrs. Henck no longer taught at the school she kept active within the new district and organized the first PTA the same year.