MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Middle School years form the critical transition period from a student who is
competent in the basics of reading, writing and
mathematics to one who has not only fully mastered them, but is launching into more
serious academic study. For Middle School students, our concentration is on maintaining
the standard of those basic tools learned earlier, becoming focused and independent
as a student, getting an increased conceptual understanding of how academic subjects
integrate and relate to real life, and raising the student's willingness and ability
to draw conclusions and make judgements.
Students generally enter the Middle School at the age of eleven and graduate to
high school or The Delphian School's Upper School by fourteen years of age. The
Middle School is Forms 5 and 6, covering the equivalent of seventh through ninth
grades.