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.

Get your NOVA Gala tickets now!

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This is your chance to support NOVA students while enjoying live entertainment, delicious local food and drink, and the much-missed camaraderie of our community. Hosted by King 5's Drew Mikklesen, and featuring entertainment by The Zaniac and NOVA's own Joel Underwood; and tasty food and drink from Well 80, Perkins Family Oysters, Marv's Marvelous BBQ, and Sweetlee's Ice Cream. Get your tickets now!!

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!