Connection, exploration, and joy are at the heart of our community. As a nonprofit middle school for highly capable learners, we know that our students crave depth, complexity, authenticity, and an exciting pace of learning. NOVA’s curriculum is designed to meet all of these needs while helping students navigate the critical middle school years. Our holistic program embraces a deep, fast approach to learning along with comprehensive support to help students manage their social, creative, and academic selves. Our small school environment allows students to be known—by their classmates, by their teachers, and by the administration. NOVA is an intimate setting where we meet and challenge each other as like-minded learners through academic conversations, hands-on experiences, identity exploration, skill-building practices, and fun.Middle schoolers, like all people, thrive on making choices for themselves. At NOVA, we prioritize self-expression and provide students with a wide range of educational choices through our holistic afternoon enrichment program. Students gain confidence as they explore their emerging capacity to be responsible for their learning choices and to define what it means for them to show up as themselves.NOVA is a community of vibrant, complex students who understand intrinsically that learning itself is invigorating and who love being around similar peers. Many students feel a true sense of belonging for the very first time at NOVA—they are provided the stimulation they have craved, they find they fit in by just being themselves, and they get to thrive within, and because of, a school setting. At NOVA, lots of different types of students find an academic home.
