Academics
De La Salle Middle School
Our Mission
The De La Salle Middle School promotes a nurturing environment that empowers and equips adolescents with the twenty-first century skills and religious formation needed for a rapidly changing world. The middle school is committed to creating a multi-disciplinary, innovative learning environment focused on the knowledge, skills, and values essential to life-long learning, responsible citizenship and service to God.
Vision Statement
The De La Salle Middle School promotes a nurturing environment that empowers and equips adolescents with the twenty-first century skills and religious formation needed for a rapidly changing world. The middle school is committed to creating a multi-disciplinary, innovative learning environment focused on the knowledge, skills, and values essential to life-long learning, responsible citizenship and service to God.
Guiding Principles
Our comprehensive middle school program will incorporate:
- A spirit of faith and zeal as a community of learners and decision-makers
- Values of faith, service, and community inspired through service learning
- A partnership with parents to nurture and guide their child through the challenges of adolescence
- A multi-disciplinary, skills-based approach to learning
- A designed-based STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) curriculum
- A Liberal Arts (Language Arts, Social Studies, and Modern Language) and Fine Arts (Visual and Performance) curriculum
- Learning through a differentiated, experiential, and collaborative process
- A rigorous and integrated use of technology to interpret, analyze, compose, and communicate
- Active engagement in the learning process within the classroom and in learning opportunities beyond the classroom
- Development of critical and creative thinking skills
- Flexible grouping enhancing the development of student ownership to achieve academic potential
- Multiple forms of assessment that allow students to demonstrate understanding in various ways
La Salle Academy is a high school rich in history and grounded in the person and teachings of Jesus and the Catholic faith, which are core to the school's life and culture. The De La Salle Middle School provides a strong holistic foundation for students to transition into high school. The high school and middle school provide students of diverse ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds, a community to foster growth in the tradition of St. John Baptist de La Salle’s ideals of faith, service, and community.
