Our Curriculum

The Montrose School curriculum prepares students to thrive in any college setting, through its three features.

First, we offer a rich liberal arts curriculum based on carefully selected core texts. We combine ancient wisdom with contemporary evidence-based research and best practices. Each class includes core texts that pose the essential questions that cultivate the wisdom for human flourishing.

We don’t water down the books our girls read. Through challenging themselves in content and pace, our girls excel in reading, writing, and critical thinking while fostering their understanding of what it means to be human. In STEM classes, students build their own primary texts, designing and conducting experiments and developing the habits of scientists as they build lab notebooks. In every class, students move from passive to active learning, putting them in the driver's seat of their own educations in the classroom, and in life beyond Montrose. 

Second, our curriculum intentionally develops essential habits of mind, heart and character. We offer distinct classes in this signature program starting in 6th grade. 

Finally, our entire program is animated and framed by the beauty and intelligibility of the teachings of the Catholic Church and the spirit of Opus Dei, which helps all of us to find God in all we do.