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junior high school

Student focused

At MSS, we offer an alternative to traditional educational philosophies that focus primarily on the textbook, subject, and teacher.

Our school is student-focused and transforms classes into places of cooperative learning, characterized by interaction and collaboration.

One of the most important factors to working with Main Street Scholars is they treat the kids as individuals and not just a statistic of improved test scores.
Jaime D.

Smaller
student body

10–15 students

Small student-teacher ratio

1:1 to 1:3

Routine
days

9 am – 3 pm

One-to-one
support

Mentor teachers

Short
grading periods

5 weeks, 3x per semester

New vision

An academic runway

In preparation for early-college high school, students in grades 7–9 focus on and develop their organizational and time-management skills as they pursue a rigorous curriculum and high-level electives that reflect the students’ interests, leading to a clearer path in high school.

Students play an active role in planning their educational paths. In making choices, these young people discover who they are in the world; as they discover they are the agents and authors of their own lives, they begin to see why their education matters.

Our framework

We use a humanities perspective to develop our thinking and communication. Math, science, literature, and history are taught, not as individual subjects, but as thought processes that we mix and match to inform our communication.
an illustrations showing four quadrants—math (logic), literature (our human story), science (observation), and history (past people) around a central box labeled “thought processes"