In addition, student teachers are placed in most classrooms. The Upper School is composed of the fifth through eighth grades. Upper School students are grouped by grade level, and the program becomes increasingly departmentalized. In seventh and eighth grades, students are divided into two mixed-grade homerooms, and each student is assigned a faculty advisor. Classes for seventh and eighth graders are completely departmentalized.
Graduates enter respected high schools throughout the New York area.
A tour through all components of the curriculum begins with social studies .