The Upper School

Middle school is its own remarkable stage, and we build the Upper School around what makes it special. Early adolescence is when students become capable of real abstraction, real argument, and real independence, and we meet that new capacity by raising the stakes while surrounding students with support.

The work grows more ambitious. Students take on a second foreign language in Latin, choose from electives that let them pursue their interests, and dig into every subject with the depth that older, more capable thinkers can handle. We ask more of them because they are ready for more.

What makes it work is the structure around them. Advisory gives every student a trusted adult and a small group to belong to. Study hall and office hours build the habits that matter, learning to manage time, ask for help, revise, and take ownership of their own work. These are the study skills that carry students into high school and beyond, and we teach them deliberately, while the stakes are still safe and the support is close at hand.

By the time our students graduate, they are ready: strong thinkers, confident speakers, and independent learners who know how to work hard and where to turn when the work gets hard.