ADV-610Required
Harbor Seminar 6
A daily home base where sixth graders build belonging, organization, and strong learning habits.
Grade 6 · Year
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ADV-710Required
Harbor Seminar 7
A year-long advisory where seventh graders grow as collaborators and active members of their community.
Grade 7 · Year
ADV-810Required
Harbor Seminar 8
A capstone advisory that helps eighth graders lead with confidence and prepare for high school.
Grade 8 · Year
ART-601Elective
Art Foundations
A welcoming first studio where sixth graders explore drawing, color, and texture with friendly, low-pressure projects.
Grade 6 · Rotation
ART-710Elective
Visual Art I
A semester studio where seventh graders stretch their drawing and design skills across new materials.
Grade 7 · Semester
ART-810Elective
Art Studio
An eighth-grade studio where artists work on bigger projects and begin to develop a personal style.
Grade 8 · Semester
BUS-810Elective
Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship
A semester course where students learn money basics and dream up their own business ideas.
Grade 8 · Semester
DIG-601Elective
Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy
A practical rotation that helps sixth graders be safe, kind, and thoughtful online.
Grade 6 · Rotation
ELA-610Required
English Language Arts 6
Sixth graders build strong reading and writing habits while sharing their own voices with confidence.
Grade 6 · Year
ELA-710Required
English Language Arts 7
Seventh graders read more widely and write longer, better-organized pieces that show real thinking.
Grade 7 · Year
ELA-715Elective
Creative Writing
A friendly semester workshop where young writers play with stories, poems, and their own imagination.
Grade 7 · Semester
ELA-810Required
English Language Arts 8
Eighth graders read challenging texts closely and write with growing independence and purpose.
Grade 8 · Year
ELA-815Elective
Debate and Public Speaking
A semester course that helps students speak up, think on their feet, and listen with respect.
Grade 8 · Semester
EXP-610Required
Exploration Wheel 6
A year-long sampler that rotates sixth graders through several exciting elective subjects.
Grade 6 · Year
FCS-710Elective
Life Skills and Food Foundations
A hands-on elective where students learn to cook simple foods and build practical everyday life skills.
Grade 7 · Semester
HPE-611Required
Physical Education 6
A welcoming first step into middle-school movement where every sixth grader finds an activity they enjoy.
Grade 6 · Semester
HPE-612Required
Health and Wellness 6
A friendly introduction to healthy habits that helps sixth graders care for their growing bodies and minds.
Grade 6 · Semester
HPE-711Required
Physical Education 7
An active class that builds on sixth-grade skills with new sports, fitness challenges, and teamwork.
Grade 7 · Semester
HPE-712Required
Health 7
A thoughtful look at growing up, friendships, and the choices that keep seventh graders healthy.
Grade 7 · Semester
HPE-811Required
Physical Education and Personal Fitness 8
A capstone movement class that helps eighth graders design fitness routines they can carry into high school.
Grade 8 · Semester
HPE-812Required
Health and Decision-Making 8
A practical course that helps eighth graders make confident, healthy choices as they prepare for high school.
Grade 8 · Semester
MAT-610Required
Mathematics 6
Sixth graders build number sense and start reasoning with ratios, fractions, and simple expressions.
Grade 6 · Year
MAT-710Required
Mathematics 7
Seventh graders deepen their work with proportions, integers, and the first steps of algebra.
Grade 7 · Year
MAT-715Elective
Accelerated Mathematics 7
A faster-paced seventh-grade math course for students ready to take on an extra challenge.
Grade 7 · Year
MAT-810Required
Mathematics 8
Eighth graders connect algebra and geometry as they get ready for high-school mathematics.
Grade 8 · Year
MAT-815Elective
Algebra I
A high-school-level algebra course for eighth graders ready to dive deeper into mathematics.
Grade 8 · Year
MED-710Elective
Journalism and Digital Storytelling
A hands-on semester where students report, write, and design stories for a class news project.
Grade 7 · Semester
MED-810Elective
Yearbook and Publication Design
A year-long workshop where students design, photograph, and produce the school yearbook as a team.
Grade 8 · Year
MUS-601Elective
General Music
A hands-on rotation where sixth graders sing, drum, and discover how music is built from rhythm and melody.
Grade 6 · Rotation
MUS-611Elective
Beginning Band
The starting point for new instrumentalists, where students pick a band instrument and learn to play their first songs together.
Grade 6 · Year
MUS-612Elective
Choir 6
A friendly first choir where sixth graders learn to use their voices and sing together with confidence.
Grade 6 · Year
MUS-613Elective
Beginning Strings
A first-year orchestra class where students learn violin, viola, cello, or bass from the very first note.
Grade 6 · Year
MUS-710Elective
Intermediate Band
The next step for band students, building tone, range, and ensemble skills on the instrument they started in sixth grade.
Grade 7 · Year
MUS-711Elective
Choir 7
A growing choir where seventh graders strengthen their voices and begin singing in richer harmony.
Grade 7 · Year
MUS-712Elective
Strings 7
A second-year orchestra class where string players add new positions, keys, and bowing styles.
Grade 7 · Year
MUS-810Elective
Advanced Band
The top band ensemble, where experienced players take on challenging music and polish their performance skills.
Grade 8 · Year
MUS-811Elective
Choir 8
The top middle-school choir, where singers polish harmony, blend, and expressive performance.
Grade 8 · Year
MUS-812Elective
Strings 8
The top string orchestra, where players take on advanced repertoire and refine their technique.
Grade 8 · Year
SCI-610Required
Integrated Science 6
Sixth graders explore Earth, life, and physical science through hands-on questions and investigations.
Grade 6 · Year
SCI-710Required
Life Science 7
Seventh graders investigate living things, from cells and body systems to ecosystems and heredity.
Grade 7 · Year
SCI-715Elective
Lake Ecology
A semester course that explores the freshwater life and habitats of a lakeside region.
Grade 7 · Semester
SCI-810Required
Physical Science 8
Eighth graders explore matter, energy, forces, and motion through experiments and engineering challenges.
Grade 8 · Year
SCI-815Elective
Environmental Field Studies
A hands-on semester course where students study the environment through observation and fieldwork.
Grade 8 · Semester
SS-610Required
World Geography and Early Civilizations
Sixth graders explore world maps, cultures, and the earliest human civilizations.
Grade 6 · Year
SS-710Required
World History and Civics
Seventh graders trace world history and learn how communities and governments work.
Grade 7 · Year
SS-810Required
United States History and Missouri Connections
Eighth graders study United States history with ties to the Missouri lake region.
Grade 8 · Year
STEM-810Elective
STEM Capstone
A culminating project course where eighth graders tackle a meaningful challenge using everything they have learned.
Grade 8 · Semester
SUP-601Elective
Reading Workshop 6
A supportive class that gives sixth graders extra time and tools to grow as confident readers.
Grade 6 · Year
SUP-610Elective
Mathematics Workshop 6
A supportive class that gives sixth graders extra practice and confidence with key math skills.
Grade 6 · Year
SUP-620Elective
English Language Development
A welcoming class that helps multilingual students grow their English while celebrating the languages they already speak.
Grades 6–8 · Year
SUP-630Elective
Academic Strategies
A practical class that helps students build study habits, organization, and self-advocacy skills.
Grades 6–8 · Year
SUP-640Elective
Gifted Seminar
An enrichment seminar where curious students take on deep, creative challenges and lead their own learning.
Grades 6–8 · Year
SUP-650Elective
Adapted Physical Education
A supportive movement class where every student can build fitness and have fun at their own pace.
Grades 6–8 · Semester
SUP-660Elective
Learning Lab
A flexible support class that gives students focused time and guidance to succeed in their other courses.
Grades 6–8 · Year
SUP-701Elective
Reading Workshop 7
A focused class that helps seventh graders strengthen comprehension and read with greater independence.
Grade 7 · Year
SUP-710Elective
Mathematics Workshop 7
A focused class that helps seventh graders build fluency and confidence with grade-level math.
Grade 7 · Year
SUP-801Elective
Reading Workshop 8
A practical class that helps eighth graders read confidently and prepare for high-school texts.
Grade 8 · Year
SUP-810Elective
Mathematics Workshop 8
A practical class that helps eighth graders strengthen math skills and prepare for high school.
Grade 8 · Year
TEC-601Elective
Design Lab Foundations
A playful first visit to the design lab where sixth graders sketch, build, and test their own ideas.
Grade 6 · Rotation
TEC-710Elective
Coding Fundamentals
A beginner-friendly elective where students write their first programs and bring ideas to life with code.
Grade 7 · Semester
TEC-711Elective
Engineering Design
A hands-on elective where students design, build, and test solutions to real-world style challenges.
Grade 7 · Semester
TEC-810Elective
Robotics and Automation
An exciting elective where students build and program robots to complete real challenges.
Grade 8 · Semester
TEC-811Elective
Web and Media Design
A creative elective where students design web pages and digital media that communicate their ideas.
Grade 8 · Semester
THE-710Elective
Theatre and Speech
A lively semester where students build confidence on stage through acting games, scenes, and short speeches.
Grade 7 · Semester
THE-810Elective
Theatre Production
A hands-on semester where students rehearse and stage a class production from script to opening night.
Grade 8 · Semester
WLG-710Elective
Spanish Exploratory
A welcoming semester introduction to the Spanish language and the cultures that share it.
Grade 7 · Semester
WLG-810Elective
Spanish I
A full-year first course in Spanish where students begin to speak, read, and write the language.
Grade 8 · Year