Academic Excellence

At Calvert School, our time-tested Lower School curriculum enthralls and challenges even our youngest students. We believe our unique approach helps create life-long learners.

In our Pilot Classes, there is a great emphasis on school readiness. Students are placed in coeducational homerooms. This half-day program includes daily instruction in the core subjects of Language Arts and Mathematics. Students also participate in Physical Education, Music, Library, Foreign Language, and Character Education. There is a significant emphasis in this pivotal year to develop a child's social, emotional, and interpersonal skills. Our hands-on approach is a tremendous asset to preparing our students for the curiosity and rigor of the years ahead.

Our Sixth Age classes build upon the Pilot model. We maintain our coeducational homeroom approach but extend our instructional program to a full day. As a result, we add Technology, Science, and Art. Students also begin social studies through a course entitled "Discovery" that teaches skills and thematically-based units in geography and age-appropriate topics of inquiry. The entire Sixth Age curriculum is literature-based; therefore literature is incorporated into every facet of the children's day.

In Seventh through Tenth Ages , the rigor of Calvert's program and its formal approach to developing life-long, foundational skills are more deeply ingrained. Students are placed in single-sex homerooms. Reading and math groups remain coeducational and developmentally based. It is in these grades where students complete formal compositions each week and are given instruction in Calvert Script, spelling, grammar, geography, art history, and history.