Academics Overview

Challenging, inspiring learning for PreK-8th Grade

  and far beyond

At every grade level, deep learning feels like true adventure at Charlotte Prep. Beginning with our Montessori Early School, Prep empowers our students to follow their natural curiosity into a thoughtful, deep interest in the world around them.

One way we provide a hands-on experience to even our youngest learners is the uninterrupted work cycle: Our students move through classroom activity stations independently, coming to their own mastery of many tasks and materials—from tracing geographic shapes using paper and templates to counting groups of manipulable objects.
 

In our Lower School, concrete, active learning continues to engage young minds and hands, even as concepts become more complex and understandings deepen across disciplines.

On a given day, our Kindergarteners might be reading The Gingerbread Boy and prototyping traps for catching magical and mischievous cookies while our 3rd Graders study ancient history and water-test Viking ship designs.

During their Middle School years, our students retain a childlike delight in new ideas and experiences, unabashedly loving to learn. At the same time, they develop academic discipline and intellectual maturity far beyond their years. For example, our 8th Graders transform heroes of the American Progressive Era into superheroes, complete with costumes and special powers—while also developing a keen, nuanced historical understanding of each figure and the social and political context in which they lived.
 

When our graduates leave Prep, they carry with them the leadership experience, academic skills, personal confidence, and real kindness they need to stand out in high school, succeed in college—and thrive in life itself.