Academics
Middle School
Guiding and caring for students through their transition from childhood to adolescence is a major goal at St. Clement's School. Middle School students gain responsibility, independence, and confidence as they develop personal and academic skills. Challenging experiences help encourage each student's meaningful progression across the fifth through eighth-grade years.
Middle School students begin each day with Morning Meeting with an advisory teacher. Morning Meeting is designed to set the tone for the day and allow students time to prepare for a day of learning. Responsive Classroom practices are implemented schoolwide.
The Middle School academic program is departmentalized. The core curriculum includes English language arts, history, mathematics, science, and Spanish courses and include the following programs:
All Things Algebra
enVision Mathematics
McGraw Hill History
STEMscopes
TCI Social Studies
The entire curriculum seeks to develop speaking, writing, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving skills in addition to constructing knowledge in the subject areas. Enrichment and elective choices are offered according to grade level. Students may elect to transfer credit for high school level courses upon graduation. Please see the grade level detail below for corresponding elective offerings.
Enrichment/Elective Courses include:
Advanced Technologies
Christian Education
Digital Art
Film
God Squad
Health
Journalism
Library
Music
Orchestra
Physical Education
Speech and Drama
Technology
Visual Art
Middle School students also participate in a service learning program to develop civic responsibility and to apply classroom learning to meaningful community outreach service projects.
Middle School students begin each day with Morning Meeting with an advisory teacher. Morning Meeting is designed to set the tone for the day and allow students time to prepare for a day of learning. Responsive Classroom practices are implemented schoolwide.
The Middle School academic program is departmentalized. The core curriculum includes English language arts, history, mathematics, science, and Spanish courses and include the following programs:
All Things Algebra
enVision Mathematics
McGraw Hill History
STEMscopes
TCI Social Studies
The entire curriculum seeks to develop speaking, writing, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving skills in addition to constructing knowledge in the subject areas. Enrichment and elective choices are offered according to grade level. Students may elect to transfer credit for high school level courses upon graduation. Please see the grade level detail below for corresponding elective offerings.
Enrichment/Elective Courses include:
Advanced Technologies
Christian Education
Digital Art
Film
God Squad
Health
Journalism
Library
Music
Orchestra
Physical Education
Speech and Drama
Technology
Visual Art
Middle School students also participate in a service learning program to develop civic responsibility and to apply classroom learning to meaningful community outreach service projects.
Middle School Classes
List of 4 items.
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5th Grade
Fifth graders focus on building organization, accountability, note-taking, and time management skills critical to achieving scholastic success. During this important transition from childhood to adolescence, milestones and accomplishments are celebrated. On our small, nurturing campus, our students have valued one-on-one contact with all their teachers. The faculty’s guidance and patience lay the foundation for self-confidence and purpose. Christian Education continues for each student in Middle School. In Mathematics, students will work on long division, multiplication, fractions, and decimals. English language arts includes grammar study, creative writing, novel study. History includes geography, and Science brings a focus to states of matter and engineering. Fine Arts include music and viusual art. Fifth graders also take P.E. and enjoy recess. -
6th Grade
At the sixth grade level, in addition to their core courses and, sixth grade students attend P.E. and rotating enrichment classes in Christian education, speech communications, technology, and visual art. Sixth grade students may choose to take orchestra. -
7th Grade
At the seventh grade level, in addition to their cores classes, students take P.E. and choose elective classes in the areas of visual art, advanced technologies, journalism, orchestra, and speech/drama. Seventh graders take semester long classes in Christian education and technology. -
8th Grade
At the eighth grade level, in addition to their cores classes, students choose elective classes in the areas of visual and digital arts, health, orchestra, and speech/drama. Eighth graders also take semester long classes in Christian education and P.E.
Middle School Faculty
List of 22 members.
St. Clement's Parish School
St. Clement's School is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and the Texas Education Agency through the Texas Private School Accrediting Commission (TEPSAC).