Building on WCM’s Montessori foundation at the Primary and Elementary levels, Middle School students continue their academic studies with hands-on and project-based learning experiences. World Community Montessori  Middle School does not offer just one path for academic excellence. We strive to create a total school experience that will unlock each student’s unique potential—to prepare them for the world, and to help them access that world today.

WCM offers a vibrant, project-based curriculum that is challenging, relevant and comprehensive; one that fosters creativity and independence. Middle School teachers strive to meet the intellectual and developmental needs and characteristics of each student. They provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to take responsibility for their lives, to address life’s challenges, and to be creators of knowledge.

In our small school community, students learn and practice self-governance, interdependence, and conflict resolution, gaining a sense of ownership and pride for the community around them.

In addition to Middle School core curriculum subjects (Math, Writing, Literature, Science, History/Social Sciences), students enjoy classes in carpentry, cooking, computer coding, community service, global languages, music, environmental studies, art, creative writing, auto mechanics, community service projects and animal husbandry.

“The mission of [a Montessori-based Middle School] is to provide a smaller, more personalized experience for adolescents in order to gain self confidence and self knowledge, to belong to a community, to learn to be adaptable, to be academically competent and challenged, as well as to create a vision for their personal future that is empowering.” Montessori Synergies

Review of the Garden crops while visiting Lynchburg Grow!
Review of the Garden crops while visiting Monticello

World Community Education Center Middle school (6th-8th grades equivalent) curriculum is designed to provide experiential learning while helping the student transition into the academically rigorous path to excellence in college. Students study core curriculum subjects such as:

  • Math
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Global Language
  • Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Arts

In addition, Middle students are introduced to the biology of learning and how to use this knowledge to develop individualized learning and study skills.

Building on their Montessori foundation, students continue their hands-on learning experiences, integrating skills development with content mastery through:

  • plant study
  • animal husbandry
  • environmental studies
  • biology, chemistry and physics projects

The interrelatedness of subjects in the world outside the classroom walls is explored through global environmental projects, community service in local non-profit greenhouses, and more extensive field trips to the wider community (e.g., Washington, D.C).