Charleston Collegiate recognizes that students make the transition from childhood to young adulthood during their years in the Middle School. During this time, students are discovering themselves as well as figuring out the balance between the demands of personal responsibilities and the need for supportive, nurturing adult guidance. This is a task that the Charleston Collegiate Middle School team of faculty embraces with enthusiasm and great care.
Students in the Middle School enjoy an average class size of 12-15 and are each involved in an advisory system that enables them to receive individual guidance and support. Trained professionals in the Academic Achievement Program also offer support and/or accommodations for those students with unique learning needs. In the Middle School at Charleston Collegiate, we strive to promote the personal qualities that make each individual student unique, as well as to develop responsible global citizens and effective future leaders.
The academic expectations in the Middle School are challenging and there is an emphasis on exposure to broad artistic, cultural, and social experiences. Students in the Middle School take core academic classes in English, history, health, mathematics, Science, and Spanish as well as explore various art forms in the fine arts, drama, music, film, and media courses. The students are under the guidance of a core group of teachers dedicated to the Middle School team. Rather than being generalists, the team of Middle School teachers is made up of specialists in specific subject areas bringing rigor and expertise to the curriculum. The teachers are also experts in the developmental needs of students at this age group and receive professional development training in this area. The Middle School team of teachers has common planning time to discuss and address the needs of each of our learners both socially and academically. During their team plan time, teachers are also able to create cohesion in the curriculum, and develop interdisciplinary units of instruction since students at this age need to be able to see the connections between what they are learning in each subject area to attend to their cognitive development. The Academic Achievement Program is also available for students who need extra support in the classroom.
Because there is a tremendous amount of growth and development cognitively, socially, and physically between the ages of ten and fourteen, at Charleston Collegiate School we group the fifth and sixth graders together in the Intermediate Level of the Middle School and the seventh and eighth graders together as they prepare for the High School.
