Venerini Academy Middle School: Grades 5-8
Welcome to the Middle School at Venerini Academy, where we believe in preparing our students for a future filled with academic success and personal fulfillment. As the world rapidly evolves, we understand the importance of equipping our students with the skills they need to navigate an ever-changing landscape.
We honor the individuality of each student, recognizing their unique talents, interests, and aspirations. Our dedicated faculty is committed to the holistic development of our adolescent students, addressing their social, emotional, and academic needs.
We take pride in our students' achievements, with eighth-grade students excelling in the PSAT and consistently surpassing national and local averages. Our graduates are admitted to top high schools, well-prepared for the rigorous demands of higher-level learning and AP classes.
Join us at Venerini Academy's Middle School, where academic excellence and personal growth go hand in hand, empowering students to thrive in the world ahead.
Inspired to Learn.
Formed to Lead.
Signature Middle School Programs
• Big Ideas Math Program
• Wit & Wisdom Curriculum
• Engineering is Elementary
• Google Classroom and 1:1 Chromebooks
• STEAM / Robotics Lab
• Mindstorms EV3 (cross-curricular STEM)
• Curriculum Development Specialist
Active, Engaged Learning
We know that students learn best through active inquiry, engagement, and reflection. Our student-centered approach guides students to understand how they learn and how to be successful. Our teachers do much more than impart knowledge and information. They serve also as coaches and mentors, guiding and empowering students to learn how to learn and to become self-motivated, active learners.
Within this pedagogy, learning is personalized and focused on helping each student achieve subject mastery and readiness for future learning. We emphasize project-based learning, with students applying what they’re learning to projects that address real-world problems. This hands-on, collaborative learning develops essential skills of teamwork, communication, creativity and critical thinking.
Learning Designed for Adolescents
In our small, personalized classes, teachers and students develop the knowledge, skills, and habits needed for high school success. Our challenging and integrative curriculum is specifically designed to meet the unique learning needs and interests of adolescents.
Our close partnership with WPI’s STEM Education Center helps guide our strong programs in science, technology, mathematics, and robotics, and also influences our curriculum across our programs in language arts, literature, religion, social studies and geography, and art. We continue to develop new models of teaching that emphasize active, student engagement and cultivate 21st century skills of critical thinking and problem solving.
Cultivating Leaders
Academic excellence is important, but it is not the only essential component of your child’s education. At Venerini, we actively encourage middle school students to become engaged leaders within our school, formed in character with a readiness to serve others. In these wonderful and enriching middle school years, students naturally and formally assume a greater leadership and mentoring role. We provide a broad range of service and leadership opportunities, both within and outside the school, through which students gain a greater sense of responsibility and awareness that their actions make a difference in the lives of others.
Middle School Highlights
We teach students how to learn, preparing them for success as motivated, inspired learners.
- Outstanding teachers who collaborate to make learning exciting and relevant.
- We embrace the formative "tween" years of early adolescence, providing an environment where each student can thrive.
- Small, interactive classes with a focus on personalized, student-centered learning.
- Outstanding partnership with WPI inspires our STEAM programs and project-based experiences.
- In our community, students grow in faith, knowledge, and virtue, becoming responsible, servant leaders in the world.
- Broad enrichment programs in athletics, art, music, leadership, technology, service, and more.
