At BASIS Independent Manhattan, middle school is a time for building strong foundational knowledge in a wide variety of subjects and building the student autonomy and self-discipline necessary for critical inquiry. After a focus on the fundamentals and highlighting the interconnectivity between their subjects in the Primary Years, the middle school curriculum encourages students to discover and make connections organically through coursework in three different sciences (biology, chemistry, physics), Latin, logic, world history, and more. It’s in middle school where students discover how powerful their knowledge is.