About Middle School

- A Place to Belong
  
  Saint Joseph Catholic Middle School focuses on preparing students for high school. We have a robust and rigorous curriculum, engage our students in our shared faith through leadership and service, and strive to promote excellence in all that we do. At Saint Joseph, students build lasting friendships in the classrooms, through class trips and experiences, at social events and parties, and by participating in extracurricular activities.
  
  Saint Joseph Catholic Middle School serves our 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Our goal is for each student to graduate from Saint Joseph’s Middle School with a love of God, a passion for learning, and the skills needed to thrive in high school and beyond.
- Safe, Supportive Environment
  
  As students transition to middle school at Saint Joseph, they move into their own separated space in our building. Our middle school program moves from the homeroom setting of the elementary grades to a structure that features academic specialists teaching each subject area. Students benefit from this team of teachers working with them during the three years of middle school.
  
  As a Catholic school, faith is at the heart of all that we do and teach.
  Our Middle School students:
  Participate in weekly liturgies
  Receive daily theological instruction
  Participate in community service and pilgrimages
  Participate as cast and crew in yearly school musical
  Middle school students are given additional responsibilities and we look to them to be leaders and role models for our younger students.
  House System
  Our middle school house program exists to intentionally form joyful disciples who are courageously charitable and joyful persons of integrity.
  Our program cultivates a life of virtue in our student body through monthly formation meetings focused on our virtue and saint of the month.
  We host monthly house meetings to foster the growth of teamwork and community while using executive functioning skills on long range projects to support academic excellence.
  Our students are formed as courageous leaders through our House Council of student representatives from each house who meet and plan events.
  Our students grow in charity as their mentor and serve our younger students through biannual buddy events with our elementary school focused on service.
  Finally, every month our whole middle school meets together with great joy for an event convocation where each house competes with integrity to win a competition: from the Winter Olympics, Great Saint Joseph Bake Off, March Madness, to our Annual Lip Sync Battle.
  Within our middle school the life of our students exemplifies and fosters the growth of these four virtues: courage, charity, joy, and integrity.
  Student lectors, song leaders, sacristans, and servers at liturgies
- Rigorous Curriculum
  
  The Middle School curriculum at Saint Joseph Catholic School is designed to advance academic competency and confidence, while increasing accountability. We place special emphasis on preparing our students for high school and believe excellence is achieved by setting high standards, providing appropriate instructional methods and monitoring achievement.
  
  Core curriculum classes include:
  Theology
  Language Arts (English Language Arts and Literature)
  Mathematics
  Science
  Social Studies
  Specialty subjects are:
  Spanish
  Art
  Music
  Physical Education