Middle School
In our Middle School program, students learn to apply their academic skills, embrace a higher level of independence, and engage in arts-centered, project-based learning across disciplines.
“At The Lab School, you are no longer that kid — the one who struggles to read, or who has issues with spelling. In many ways, you’re like everyone else. You can succeed at Lab. Believing in yourself — that you have the ability to go beyond what others expect of you — is the most important factor of success. Lab helped me do this, and it has changed my life.”
— Lab School Student
Geared towards students in grades 5-8, our Middle School program focuses on developing skills, knowledge, independence, and self-advocacy – all critical pieces of embracing one’s learning difference.
In the Middle School, students dive deeper into the arts-centered, hands-on, project-based learning they experienced in the Lower School. Our faculty encourage and support students to tackle increasingly rigorous content.
As with the Lower School, classes in the Middle School program are differentiated to support individual student needs, and opportunities for intensive remediation continue as needed.
Above all, increased choice is a crucial part of the Middle School experience. We task students with selecting arts and STEM courses, clubs, and extracurricular activities, putting them in the driver’s seat of their learning.
Creativity and Challenge Throughout the Day
Modern Band
Students focus on developing a wide range of musical skills including: singing, playing instruments, and learning note-reading, rhythm, and harmony-chord analysis.
Videography
"With the skills they are learning and the technologies in their pockets and at their fingertips, they become more confident and willing to take risks." - Digital Film Teacher
Architecture Workshop
Whether building a birdhouse or a rocking chair, students learn drafting, measurement, basic mathematics, and the manipulation of a variety of unconventional materials, tools, and methods.
Design Lab
Design Lab promotes problem-solving strategies, creative thinking, collaboration, and expression using various sculptural materials and woodworking skills.
Robotics and Engineering
“The kids are moving around the room, engaging with the group around the concepts we are learning, and through all this, they are developing visual thinking and spatial reasoning that are critical to understand basic and higher level math.” - Robotics and Engineering Teacher
Modern Band
Students focus on developing a wide range of musical skills including: singing, playing instruments, and learning note-reading, rhythm, and harmony-chord analysis.
Videography
"With the skills they are learning and the technologies in their pockets and at their fingertips, they become more confident and willing to take risks." - Digital Film Teacher
Architecture Workshop
Whether building a birdhouse or a rocking chair, students learn drafting, measurement, basic mathematics, and the manipulation of a variety of unconventional materials, tools, and methods.
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Design Lab
Design Lab promotes problem-solving strategies, creative thinking, collaboration, and expression using various sculptural materials and woodworking skills.
Robotics and Engineering
“The kids are moving around the room, engaging with the group around the concepts we are learning, and through all this, they are developing visual thinking and spatial reasoning that are critical to understand basic and higher level math.” - Robotics and Engineering Teacher
Amy Young
Intermediate Teaching Artist -Writing
Imaginations are soaring in Intermediate’s Authors and Illustrators class.
Middle School Leadership
Reach out to us at anytime. We are here to help.
Melissa Wood
- Head of Middle School
Angela Steele
- Associate Head of Middle School
Prospective Students and Families
Nakia Hackett
- Admissions Associate
Current Students and Families
Kelly Dau
- Administrative Assistant
Angela Steele
- Associate Head of Middle School
Melissa Wood
- Head of Middle School
