Middle School

The Middle School seeks to meet the educational and emotional needs of early adolescent students who are experiencing rapid physical, intellectual, and social growth. The program accommodates students at different levels of maturity and includes a balance of teacher-structured and student-initiated activities.

Students are encouraged to cooperate rather than to compete and to share their special gifts and talents.

Middle School teachers take advantage of the natural curiosity, energy, and enthusiasm of fifth through eighth graders. The faculty and administrators provide a secure base from which students can enter into the greater autonomy of adulthood, a process which involves risk-taking, success, and failure.

The rigorous curriculum focuses on basic skills, a disciplined manner of inquiry, individual creativity, and good study habits. Students are encouraged to cooperate rather than to compete and to share their special gifts and talents.