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Middle School Curriculum.

Grades 4–8: the Theanthropology Core, daily Greek and mathematics, laboratory science, and the sacred arts — on one storyline, five days a week.

Built on the Core

The·an·thro·pol·o·gy — from θεός (God), ἄνθρωπος (human), and λόγος (study): the study of how God relates to humans, revealed in the Lord Jesus, the Theanthropos — the God-man. All Saints exists to equip and inspire students, at a critical juncture of their lives, toward the main goal of human existence: theosis — becoming like God. The entire middle-school curriculum is presented through this lens.

Four disciplines run in constant conversation on one storyline: Theology — the message of the Scriptures, the Church Fathers, the lives of the saints, and the liturgical tradition of the Church; History — the times, places, people, and events of the world into which the Lord Jesus was incarnated, and from which He called His Church; Literature — the human soul's longing for God, expressed through stories, poetry, and texts across cultures and centuries; and the Sacred Arts — the same trimester's story, taken up in the studio and sung in the church.

What the conversation looks like: in one trimester, a student meets God calling Abraham out of Babylon in Theology, studies the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent in History, and reads the Code of Hammurabi — and a novel set in Hammurabi's Babylon — in Literature. In a later trimester: St. Paul before the philosophers of Athens in Theology, the rise of the Greek city-states in History, and Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Aristotle on righteousness in Literature.

Scope & sequence, grades 4–8

Every subject, every year — who carries it and where it leads.

Theology · History · LiteratureThe Theanthropology Core: one storyline across the three disciplines, trimester by trimester, on a multi-year rotation through the ancient world to the modern — Scripture and the Fathers read whole, with History and Literature keeping the same company. The full curriculum map is shared with enrolled and prospective families.

GreekDaily, in the day's first period: Biblical & Liturgical Greek, sustained until the Scriptures and the services can be comprehended in their original language — the foundation for Modern Greek in high school.

MathematicsDimensions Math, daily, in small classes — the Singapore method: concrete, pictorial, abstract — through pre-algebra and algebra by grade 8.

ScienceLaboratory science in the weekly rotation — measurement, error, and evidence, not demonstrations. Grades 4–5 use Mystery Science, inquiry-driven and built around real questions; grades 6–8 use Issues & Science from the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley — one of the few middle-school programs with an all-green EdReports rating for full NGSS alignment. Each unit is framed within a theanthropological worldview: the sciences study the Logos of a governed universe.

Sacred ArtsIconography, Byzantine chant, and sacred drama inside the school day — the same trimester's storyline, taken up in the studio under a working iconographer.

P.E. & DanceA full twelve-month physical-education program: daily movement, folkstyle wrestling under a national-champion coach, and Greek folk dance.

Learning LabThe weekly block for science support, tutoring, and study hall — led by a master tutor, with additional founder support, so no student waits for help.

Go further

The MethodHow every subject is taught: the six commitments.See it → High School CurriculumWhere the middle school leads: AP, dual enrollment, and the Class of 2031.See it → InquireStart the conversation for 2027–28.Open the form →