RMCA's Middle School serves grades 6-8, providing students with a glimpse of the high school experience while maintaining a supportive, smaller school environment. The curriculum expands to include more course offerings, electives, and a wider range of extracurricular activities and events.

Middle School Student Clubs

S2S (Student to Student), Student Council, NJHS (National Junior Honor Society), Chess Club, Art Club, Drama Club, SWAT Club (Students Working Against Tobacco).

Middle School Field Trips

International Towne (6th Grade)

Walk DC Trip (8th Grade)

Skate City (Quarterly Order Winners)

6TH GRADE

• English: Listening & Speaking, Reading Comprehension & Response, Writing to Audience, Writing to Analyze, Narrative Writing, Informative/Explanatory Writing, Persuasive Writing

• World History and Geography: World Geography, Lasting Ideas from Ancient Civilizations, The Enlightenment, The French Revolution, Romanticism, Industrialism, Capitalism, and Socialism, Latin American Independence Movements

• American History: Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization, Reform

• Mathematics: Ratios and Proportional Relationships, The Number System, Expressions and Equations, Geometry, Statistics and Probability

• Science: Light and Matter, Thermal Energy, Weather, Climate and Water Cycling, Plate Tectonics, Natural Hazards, Cells and Systems

7TH GRADE

• English: Listening & Speaking, Reading Comprehension & Response, Writing to Audience, Writing to Analyze, Narrative Writing, Informative/Explanatory Writing, Persuasive Writing, Fiction, Non Fiction & Drama, Poetry, Foreign Phrases commonly used in English

• History and Geography: Early Americans and First Europeans, European Exploration and Colonization of the Americas, The Revolutionary War, Creating a Constitution, The New Republic, Westward Expansion, The Civil War, Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization, Social Movements, World War 1, The Twenties and Great Depression, World War II, Postwar America

• Mathematics: Ratios and Proportional Relationships, The Number System, Expressions and Equations, Geometry, Statistics and Probability

• Science: Chemical Reactions and Matter, Chemical Reactions and Energy, Metabolic Reactions, Matter Cycling and Photosynthesis

8TH GRADE

• English: Listening & Speaking, Reading Comprehension & Response, Writing to Audience, Writing to Analyze, Narrative Writing, Informative/Explanatory Writing, Persuasive Writing, Fiction, Non Fiction & Drama, Poetry, Foreign Phrases commonly used in English

• History and Geography: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt and Kush, The Israelites, The Ancient Greeks and Greek Civilization, Ancient India, Early China, Rome, Islamic Civilizations, Maya, Inca and Aztec Civilizations, Imperial China, Renaissance and Reformation, Exploration, Trade, and Settlement, Europe and Russia in the Middle Ages, West African Kingdoms, World War II and the Postwar World, East and South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Latin America

• Mathematics: The Number System, Expressions and Equations, Functions, Geometry, Statistics and Probability

• Science: Contact Forces, Sound Waves, Forces at a Distance, Earth in Space, Genetics, Natural Selection And Common Ancestry

Other Classes Include: Art, Leadworthy, Physical Education, Spanish, Rhetoric and Logic, Grammar, Financial Literacy, Music, and Order Class.