Stradford Prep’s Lower Academy creates an academic and co-curricular opportunities that fit the interest, preferences, and learning styles of our students, enabling them to develop into young men that understand their full potential. In 5th and 6th grade our literacy program allows students to analyze characters, plot, and settings, as well as to recognize an author’s purpose for writing and his organizational strategies. Our mathematics program allows them the opportunity to solve complex problems with complex numbers. We will use science to teach our young men how to observe, experiment, gather data and draw conclusions. We ground the work of our social studies curriculum around American History and give students a chance to compare stories of the past to their present day experiences.