Lower & Middle School
The Avery Coonley School provides an engaging and invigorating experience for children who thrive on challenge. We harness the energy of this critical time in bright children’s lives when an inspiring learning community can help them soar.
At Avery Coonley, advanced and gifted learners collaborate within a curriculum that offers the depth, pace, and complexity to challenge them to the fullest. All students learn through exploration while working at least one year above their current grade level.
Our program is designed for curious, creative, highly motivated, and advanced learners. The admission process for all students includes IQ testing.
- Lower School: Kindergarten–Group 4 (K through fourth grades)
- Middle School: Groups 5–8 (fifth through eighth grades)
Our student–teacher ratios allow for a highly individualized academic experience. Classes and schedules include plentiful one-on-one time with teachers.
Imagination Soars
Is it the ACS Challenge Course—or a pirate ship? In a Group Two drama class activity, students create their own pirate character, talk like a pirate, and pursue a pirate objective with their skills while facing obstacles on the course.
Deeper Learning
From community, geography, and history to French language, music, and literature, themes of study connect multiple subjects throughout grades for deeper learning based in real-world problem solving. Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics are integrated into a flexible, highly experiential curriculum influenced by student interests.
- Language Arts
- Mathematics
- Science
- Social Studies
- French
- The Arts
- Visual Arts
- Music
- Drama
- Resources and Additional Opportunities
- Technology
- Library
- Physical Education
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Student Advisory Program
Language Arts
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies
French
The Arts
Visual Arts
Music
Drama
Resources and Additional Opportunities
Technology
Library
Physical Education
Social and Emotional Learning
Student Advisory Program
Middle School Athletics
ACS teams compete in basketball, soccer, track and field, and volleyball. More than 50% of middle schoolers participate in a team sport.
Student Clubs
In addition to an award-winning Student Council, students can choose from extracurriculars such as poetry club, MathCounts, STEAM, the debate team, and chess.