Intentionally Small

Worried your child will be lost in a sea of middle school kids? NOVA is an intentionally small community that recognizes students as individuals.

Academics and More

It isn’t just about challenging academics. NOVA also supports social, emotional, and leadership development during the critical middle school years.

Supporting Families

Does your child seem like a mash-up of different intellectual, emotional, and social ages? We support kids (and their parents) during this transformative time.

Accepting applications for 2022-2023!

Wondering about your middle schooler's future? Apply now for 6th, 7th, or 8th grade.

Choose Knowledge. Experience Wonder.

NOVA Middle School is South Sound’s intellectual home for highly capable learners. With our core values of connection, commitment, intention, and joy, NOVA’s teachers invest in each student’s potential and individuality. For more than 25 years, we have fostered the joyful pursuit of intellectual, social, and emotional expansion through a challenging curriculum that nourishes highly capable students to develop identity, self-empowerment, and community.

Discoveries Camp for Grades 4-6!

Click here to learn more and register for camp!

Every summer, we are pleased to open our doors to students moving into 4th, 5th, and 6th grade for weeklong NOVA experiences. Our priorities: learning, connection, and fun!

We place an emphasis on creating our school culture within the week's experience, with classes that offer exciting learning but also careful attention to kindness and compassion. Every year, the offerings are different, but the purpose remains the same: to inspire students' wonder and curiosity, to share our approach with the wider community, and to allow families with younger students to get to know NOVA.

Why NOVA?

NOVA is more than just an accelerated curriculum. We are the only full-time middle school for highly capable students in the South Puget Sound. Our intentionally designed program offers an unparalleled education and a life-long advantage for our graduates. NOVA students develop their leadership skills, their confidence, their sense of self, and go on to success in high school and beyond. But don't just take our word for it. Watch 10th grader Molly explain it better than we ever could!