Middle School – Schutz American School

Welcome to
Middle School

Where potential is Unleashed

Schutz American School is An Authorized IB World School Offering The Middle Years Program

Mission Statement from the IB

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

This is a time of exploration and discovery for students. We offer a wide range of academic and extracurricular programs to help our students find their passions and develop their talents.

Our Middle School serves students in grades 6-8 with approximate class sizes between 15 and 22 students.

Schutz is a school where enthusiasm for learning and being a member of a respectful and caring family community are readily apparent. Our motto is, “Schutz is Family”.

As an IB MYP school, our Middle School faculty is dedicated to fostering students’ curiosity, skill development, and love for learning. Lessons are thoughtfully designed to encourage critical and creative thinking, while also nurturing strong character and essential life skills. In every aspect of school life, the Schutz Learner Profile—respect, responsibility, resilience, compassion, and integrity—is meaningfully incorporated to empower students to reach their fullest potential.

Our students are encouraged to take responsibility for their lives and to recognize how they can positively impact both their local community and the wider world. Leadership development opportunities, such as Model United Nations and Week Without Walls, play a key role in promoting global citizenship and preparing our students to make a difference internationally.

At Schutz, we recognize that:

Students are seeking new levels of independence and can be highly peer centered.
Changes students are experiencing affect their thinking and behavior.
Each young adolescent is maturing on his or her own timeline.
This understanding of young adolescent development also affects decisions about curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Our Middle School educational programs are founded on the following four pillars:

Developmentally responsive: using the distinctive nature of young adolescents as the foundation upon which all decisions about school organization, policies, curriculum, instruction and assessment are made.
Challenging: ensuring that every student learns and every member of the learning community is held to high expectations.
Empowering: providing all students with the knowledge and skills they need to take responsibility for their lives, to address life’s challenges, to function successfully at all levels of society and to be creators of knowledge.
Equitable: advocating for and ensuring every student’s right to learn and providing appropriately challenging and relevant learning opportunities for every student.

Students are empowered to take responsibility for their lives while also recognizing how they can make a positive difference in their community and internationally. The Middle School has leadership development activities such as Model United Nations and Week Without Walls, which are highly successful in promoting global citizenship.