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Middle School

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The middle school years hold unique opportunities to nurture students as they develop spiritually, physically, socially and emotionally toward the goal of impacting their world through biblical thought and action.

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Rigorous, Christ centered, liberal arts instruction reflects the understanding that middle school students are moving from concrete to abstract thinking, which requires encouragement in a safe and loving environment. Academic, artistic, and athletic co-curriculars round out our middle school program enabling each student to discover the gifts and talents God has given them.

Program Highlights

  • Highly relational faculty that loves and cares for their students
  • Flexible classroom furniture promoting small group instruction
  • A gymnasium, multiple athletic fields, art studio, drama, and music rooms, library, science labs, a 500 seat auditorium, and a newly constructed Student Union Center and dining hall
  • Weekly advisory meetings that emphasize spiritual growth, friendship development, and building of positive school culture
  • Student Support Services available to meet various learning needs
  • Highly competitive athletic programs fielding thirteen middle school teams
  • Excellent Fine Arts programs featuring a Middle School Theatre production, and concert band and choirs which present Christmas and Spring performances each year
  • Academic clubs/competitions including, AcTs Academic Challenge (8th grade), Robotics, What’s So Cool About Manufacturing Video Contest
  • SAIL program (Schools for Applied and Innovative Learning) teaching students the value of collaborative learning and problem solving, through risk free trial and error learning experiences
  • 7th and 8th Grade electives including, band, choir, theatre, yearbook, MS newspaper, video design and editing, board games strategy and design, chess club, stagecraft, ceramics, adventure education, and worldbuilding.
  • Option to take classes and micro-certifications through The Center for Innovation 
  • Seventh Grade is a key year for Adventure Based Learning, kicking off the year with a float trip and ending with a three day trip to Spruce Lake Retreat Center engaging in field studies, enhancing the science curriculum.
  • Eighth Grade Retreat: students begin the year on a retreat focusing on spiritual growth and unity.
  • Leadership opportunities as class members of the Middle School Student Leadership Board
  • Opportunities for parent involvement through a highly engaged PVO

Having teachers who pray for you and want you to grow in both whatever subject they are teaching you AND in your walk with Christ is a huge strength of a DC education. I also love the smaller class sizes which help with learning and building community. - DC 8th Grader

MS Academic Handbook
First page of the PDF file: DC2024-2025MSAcademicHandbook

"We chose DC because we want a distinctively Christian education for our child consistent with our teaching at home in which she will be taught in all subjects, and modeled before her, a biblical world-and-life view."

Jon Christman, Current Parent

 

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Meet Our Team

Middle School Faculty

MS Admin Assistant

Gwen Peters

Administrative Assistant, Middle School

610-353-6522 x2275
gpeters@dccs.org