Middle School
Academics to invigorate your maturing student
Middle School increases the academic challenge to correspond to your student’s development from child to young adult. A Keystone education invigorates the growing minds and capabilities of middle schoolers. We help your student become a sophisticated thinker and responsible leader.
Middle School philosophy
Students emerge from their classes with a strong grasp of concepts as well as the ability to apply them to new information. Developing their critical thinking skills activates their excitement about learning. Middle School fosters a culture of collaboration and creativity by maintaining small class sizes and participatory classroom environments.
We understand that learning takes place as middle schoolers navigate complex changes within themselves and with their social interactions. To support our students, Keystone School integrates wellness initiatives in the Middle School that include a weekly advisory program, outdoor education, service learning, and special programs facilitated by our counselor.
The Middle School Program
A balanced, healthy approach to high achievement for your 6th through 8th grade student.
Academics
Enrichment Activities
Physical Education
Outdoor Education
Keystone school community supports the adolescent journey
Adolescence is understood in adult memory and popular culture as a difficult and demanding time, yet it can be understood as a wonderful and mysterious journey. The Middle School years are a time of transformation, and we work to help students understand how their brains are working at this stage. Navigating friendships and social dynamics takes a lot of energy for middle schoolers. We provide support for healthy peer interactions and community involvement.
Keystone promotes an inclusive culture to embrace all our students as they face both academic and social challenges.
Advisory and Town Hall allow us to set and practice behavioral and social norms. Advisory is designed for learning social and emotional skills, including emotion management, self-regulation, empathy, communication and goal-setting. It provides time for students to develop caring relationships with teachers and form a constructive group of friends.
Through circle discussions, team-building games, and creative activities, students interact in a small group, fostering a close bond of support and friendship. Town Hall is a monthly forum for special presentations, large group discussions and celebrations of learning.
At Keystone, we empower students to work together on teams and as leaders to see beyond themselves and look for ways they can make a positive contribution to the greater community. Being one of our core values, the understanding of service is woven thoughtfully into our curriculum and opportunities for students to participate in and practice service are an important part of the middle school experience.
In addition to on-campus activities such as Food Drives for the SA Food Bank or making greeting cards for Meals on Wheels deliveries, all students participate in a day of service off-campus. Activities can include working in the warehouse at the Food Bank or partnering with SA Parks and Rec to clean up a local park.
At Keystone, we work to make Middle School fun, too. We offer activities throughout the year to make sure our young people can gather for non-academic activities. We offer afterschool game nights, movie nights, mixers, dances, and outings at a nearby roller skating arena. Getting along doesn’t just happen in a community – it takes intentional effort to sustain a sense of social cohesion and belonging for all students.
Explore Keystone
Tour the Middle School
Get acquainted with the campus facilities for Lower School children.
