Middle School Academic Life

Middle School students are ready for and interested in deeper thinking. They ask ethical questions as they seek to understand themselves and their world. They become more aware of the rich relationship between creative and logical thought. They are capable of sophisticated connections, a necessary step on the climb toward high-level synthesis. Some won’t get there until Upper School; some already have arrived.

Our Middle School program offers students high expectations and an engaging curriculum to help them understand their gifts, how they learn, and what to continue working on before grades become more of a focus in Upper School. These goals, along with continued refinement of the skills and concepts they will need to flourish in Upper School courses, frame the main academic purposes of our teaching.

Just as importantly, Trinity’s Middle School faculty love and understand Middle School students. In a way, we see our academic program as a vehicle for shepherding them through years often regarded as the most difficult—but which can bear much fruit. In a place that loves, encourages, and guides them, while holding them to high personal and academic standards, our students can truly grow and develop their God-given abilities.