The Middle School Program serves as an important transition from elementary school to high school, where students experience profound changes in intellectual, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual areas. These changes call for unique learning environments where students can mature, achieve success, and be challenged. Our learner-centered curriculum provides stimulating opportunities to develop problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities. In a departmentalized environment, our students are actively engaged in learning through the use of a variety of instructional methods and technologies, such as our one-to-one device program, which promotes collaboration and higher-level thinking skills.

The core curriculum, combined with the ancillary enrichment classes, allows students to grow as individuals of Christ within a community faith. Our students leave Our Lady of Guadalupe with a true sense of fellowship and belonging. 

Students in middle school have eight class periods per day. Each class is taught by a teacher who has a specialty in the field they teach. All students take courses in English, Literature, History, Religion, Math, and Science. Additionally, middle students take Physical Education classes, Spanish, and Fine Arts electives. Students are technology-proficient by graduation, with a 1:1 Chrome book program that begins in the 4th grade. 

• 25 students/class
• Grade-specific spiritual retreats
• 1:1 Chromebook program

Responding to our Baptismal commitment to serve others, we have incorporated a service requirement into religion class in Middle School. The service hour requirements are:

• 6th grade- 10 hours
• 7th grade- 12 hours
• 8th grade- 14 hours

Students complete their service hours through the school year. They are given a log sheet which they record the date, service performed, the number of hours, and signature of the supervisor. Half of the required hours must be submitted in December to their Religion teacher. This counts as a major grade in Religion in the second quarter. The second half of the required hours are submitted to the religion teacher at the end of the school year and is a major Religion grade for the fourth quarter.

Service Hour Log


**Students in the National Junior Honor Society serve an additional 20 hours (2 hours per month) on top of the required grade-level hours, as laid out in the NJHS bylaws.