The Middle School That Works

During the middle years, schools can either lose students or set them up for the rest of their lives.  Put students in an environment of mediocrity and they will wither on the vine. Create a climate of challenge and expectation, and they will surprise us all.

Island Pacific School is uniquely designed to give grade 6-9 middle school students the education they need: an education that challenges and surprises them to become the very best of who they are. Core program elements include inquiry-based learning within the IB Middle Years Program; special classes in reasoning, philosophy and ethics; hiking, sailing and kayaking expeditions; a grade 9 Masterworks program that requires student to complete, (and publicly defend), a 15-30 page independent research project; monthly community service activities; and a House system that requires, among other things, that students clean the school.

IPS gives students the foundation to discover the best of themselves in high school and beyond. It is the kind of education that changes peoples’ lives.