Middle School: Grades 5-8

• Fifth grade students build upon the learning they do while reading the historical fiction novel “A Long Walk to Water” about Sudanese children whose lives are impacted by war and water insecurity. Students work to raise awareness within the school community about the issues of water insecurity and the importance of water conservation. 
• Sixth grade has a cross-curricular Heroes Project built around a hero’s journey which culminates in work in the community with veterans. 
• The seventh grade delves into our Florida history and communities, and investigates how our past influences Florida’s communities today. We incorporate this curriculum in every discipline – literature in English; Florida nature and habitat, as well as disease, in science; math concepts; and even a world language focus with French and Spanish influences. The project is further developed during our trip to St. Augustine. 
• Finally, there is The Entrepreneurial Design Institute in eighth grade. Students identify problems in their community and use design thinking, ideation and action to develop a unique solution to the real world issue. Learning modules develop the student's entrepreneurial mindset, allowing them to have the freedom to add economic and/or social value to their community.

• Our Middle School Center for Arts and Sciences includes a new Innovation and Design Studio combining hands-on visual arts and technology, a patio with a kiln, music and drama rooms, science and computer labs, classrooms, and a covered, outdoor pavilion.
• Interdisciplinary, grade-level teaching teams provide a stimulating and integrated course of study.
• Our advisory program provides every student with a faculty advisor who becomes their point person for academic, social and emotional issues.
• Vibrant service learning program
• Wide slate of safe, on-site extracurricular activities
• Students are respected for their differences, and encouraged to explore new activities in a welcoming, non-judgmental environment.