Middle School

Our experiential, inquiry-based curriculum challenges students to engage deeply in independent critical thinking and sophisticated analysis of complex material. Your child develops the specific intellectual, collaborative, and technology skills all students need for the next leg of their academic journey.

Our Middle School building shapes and inspires your child’s learning prowess, leadership capacity, and collaboration skills with cutting-edge science labs, welcoming gathering spaces, and even a rooftop Classroom in the Sky.

State-of-the-art technologies integrated into the curriculum—including a 1:1 Chromebook program and an Innovation Lab with a 3-D printer—ensure that your child uses technology as an effective learning tool, rather than an end in itself. Children create digital portfolios, complete a digital citizenship program to learn online responsibility, and build foundational computer science skills.

Numerous leadership opportunities, such as Student Council, a Student Ambassador Program, service learning projects, advisory groups, sports teams, dramatic productions, and the Little Buddies program, help your child develop true leadership skills, which include compassion and empathy.

Increasingly intensive foreign language instruction shapes your child as a true citizen of the world. While Spanish forms part of the curriculum starting in preschool, by Middle School students speak with notably greater comfort and fluency in Spanish, French, and/or Chinese, with many earning gold and silver honors in national competitions.

A wide variety of electives, including dance, strings, engineering, journalism, and more, encourage your child to hone current talents and discover new passions.

Team sports including soccer, volleyball, cross country, basketball, lacrosse, baseball, softball, and tennis deepen your child’s athletic capacity, foster fun but serious competition, develop sportsmanship, and build lifelong healthy habits.

Ongoing service learning projects allow your child to confront and engage with global and local issues such as hunger, homelessness, environmental sustainability, and community building, and learn how to make a difference in the world.

Frequent day and overnight trips expand your child’s comfort zone. A week-long capstone trip in eighth grade allows students to immerse themselves in a different culture, take part in several service projects, and reflect on their impact on the world at-large.

A robust array of fine arts classes in visual arts, engineering and design, music, drama, instrumental strings, and public speaking, along with music ensembles and student-run dramatic productions, spur your child to explore new talents and uncover new interests.

A carefully designed outplacement process, offering individual counseling, test prep classes, and mock interviews, guides your eighth-grader to confidently choose and apply to best-fit high schools, creating a powerful reset point as your child enters high school. The division head works closely with area high schools to help find the right place for each student, and advocates for all Langley students with the schools of their choice.

An intensive advisory program, in which students work with the same teacher over three years, forms deep bonds of trust as students navigate this exciting period of personal and academic growth. Students build close relationships with the advisor and fellow students, sharing experiences, insights, concerns, and triumphs as they look toward high school and young adulthood.

Langley’s invigorating and fun STEAM challenge every trimester puts students’ scientific skills to the test, as students in grades 1-8 work in teams to conduct experiments, collect and analyze data, and solve problems creatively.