The Middle School curriculum is designed to engage and challenge the bright, creative energetic students of this age. Students in grades five through eight learn in an environment rich with opportunity for achievement and self-discovery. The emerge from the Middle School with keenly developed skills in writing, mathematics, research and technology as well as study skills such as note-taking and organization.
Confidence grows out of students' active participation in their own learning.
A student-created museum open to the entire school culminates in the fifth grade study of ancient Egypt. All Middle School students are encouraged to participate in Model Congress to improve their debating skills and knowledge of how our democracy works and to submit art work and creative writing for the literary magazine Packer Publishers. After school drama and athletics are other valuable opportunities to extend skills and enhance self-esteem and make friends.