Walk into our Middle School classrooms. You will not see heads bowed silently over textbooks, or students who listen passively as a teacher speaks. Instead, you will find small workshops in which students are active, engaged, and purposeful. You will find students designing, developing, and executing their own projects in Exploratory, our innovative independent study program. You will see students presenting original research to peers.
As much as possible, the work that middle school students do is connected to the real world; they address real problems, use real-world resources, and find multiple answers to their never-ending stream of real questions.
Learning in the Middle School is collaborative, investigative, and deeply intellectual. While content is essential – you can’t have genuine understanding without it – students also learn to develop the tools of inquiry and the habits of mind that will make them life-long learners and problem-solvers. Students are encouraged and expected to approach their work with passion, intelligence, and creativity; we believe in depth over breadth. Our goal is not simply to transmit material, but rather to teach students how to think and communicate like historians, writers, mathematicians, scientists, and artists.
Grade 6
Humanities 6
Life Science
Math 6
World Languages: Spanish IA
Grade 7
Language Arts 7/8
Physical Science
Pre-Algebra
Global Studies
World Languages: Spanish IB
Grade 8
Language Arts 9
Earth Science with Lab
Algebra I
Honors Civics & Economics
World Languages: Spanish II
Grade 6
Physical Education
Studio/Exploratory
Health & Human Sexuality^
Advisory^
Guidance^
Grade 7
Physical Education
Studio/Exploratory
Health & Human Sexuality^
Advisory^
Guidance^
Grade 8
Physical Education
Studio/Exploratory
Health & Human Sexuality^
Advisory^
Guidance^
^Non-graded courses
3400 Stony Point Road
Richmond, Virginia 23235
p (804) 272-1341
f (804) 560-9255