Middle School
What sets our Middle School apart? Joy, intellectual curiosity, and exploring and embracing new challenges.
Walk through our halls and you’ll see students and teachers learning side-by-side, tackling big ideas, asking questions and engaging in energetic, collaborative classroom discussions.
We place students in experiences that are developmentally appropriate yet challenging. Where trying something new—an instrument, a sport, a club—is encouraged and safe.
The World Is Our Classroom
Middle schoolers have many opportunities to learn by doing, including engaging in service projects, growing food in our on-campus gardens and exploring the natural world through outdoor adventures.
Opportunities to Lead
Through student council, service learning, clubs, performing arts, athletics, and leading their own parent-advisor conferences, students build independence and confidence.
Interdisciplinary Capstone Project
At the end of each grade in Middle School, students complete an interdisciplinary capstone that weaves together math, social studies, science and English. With a focus on service learning, they apply what they've learned to real-world challenges such as food insecurity.
Supportive Advisors
Through small-group lessons, team-building activities, and one-on-one time with advisors, our Middle School advisory program helps students grow as leaders, make healthy choices, and advocate for themselves and others.
Community First
Middle schoolers are at Penn Charter are taught that diversity is essential to a caring community shaped by Quaker values. They learn to self-advocate and express their own ideas while also respecting and embracing the ideas of others.
Physics 500
The annual Physics 500 at Penn Charter is a fun-filled event where physics, creativity and competition collide! Eighth grade students design and build their own cardboard vehicles powered solely by the force of gravity, then race them down the track in a test of distance, engineering and scientific understanding. This hands-on project challenges students to apply principles of motion, energy and friction, culminating in an exciting day of racing, learning and school spirit.
Teachers genuinely care that students learn. If I ever have a question or don't understand the material, my teacher is really understanding and patient. My advisor is the first person I go to when I have a problem, and I am excited to see her every day at school.Lena P., Class of 2030