Billings Middle School is a dynamic learning community intentionally designed to stretch, support, and inspire early adolescents through experiential education to foster social, emotional, and academic growth.
We are passionate about being a stand-alone middle school in North Seattle.
Why Billings?
Known and Nurtured
As students get older, most schools quickly become large, impersonal and inflexible. Our Advisory Program meets daily in small groups to ensure that each student is known deeply and has a trusted, caring advocate both inside and outside of school. Radiating outward from Advisory, our social emotional learning program is embedded throughout our small, individualized classes and expeditionary program, helping students find ways to be successful in school and how to empathize and understand others.
Engaging Curriculum
Billings offers a rich core curriculum designed to engage students in rigorous, experiential and multi-faceted ways. Neuroscience underscores that students learn best and most deeply when they use as many senses as possible and emulate the work of real professionals through exploration, simulation, and experience. Our classes align with the developmental growth of our students, and are taught with an awareness of each individual's strengths and learning styles.
Expeditionary Mindset
Whether inside the classroom or outdoors on an overnight expedition, we stretch students outside of their comfort zone, to think critically, and to be powerful self-advocates. When we teach in places as astonishing as the Olympic Coast or immerse ourselves in the rich cultures of Seattle, we frame learning in a way that is powerfully alive and relevant. When students embrace new environments, they develop personal identity and the confidence to handle any future challenge.
Social Justice
We believe that the work of seeing, engaging and disentangling institutionalized privilege is an act of social justice, a critical human endeavor, and a society-building skill necessary to thrive in the 21st century. Our curriculum centers social justice at every stage and we empower students to act as future leaders in our society. At Billings, students consciously reconcile their emerging self-image with a broader sense of the world and their purpose within it.
Interested in joining Billings?
Our Admissions Team can't wait to meet you. Join us for a Small Group Tour, visit one of our Open Houses, or get your application started with Billings!