What do you want to know more about Meridian?
How Meridian students’ interests matter.
At Meridian, classes are project-based. This means that students get to regularly decide what to study and how to study it. These choices results in opportunities for students to pursue their own interests and to learn to express themselves in new ways. Students create podcasts, write plays, and develop original mathematical functions. It culminates in their junior year research project, a year-long, in-depth exploration of a question that they pose.
All the places Meridian students visit.
Meridian is located on the Orange Line and in the city. This means that students use the greater Boston area as an extension of their classroom. Classes regularly leave the building to take advantage of the resources that the city is rife with. Students go to letterpress workshops, study in oceanographic labs, and spend time at museums all over the state.
Why adults who visit Meridian want to be students again.
It often comes down to the way our Humanities and Math, Science, & Technology classes make exciting connections across the subjects, but it’s also about students applying their learning, such as Spanish students meeting throughout the year with local Latino seniors or when French classes go to Quebec. We think parents and educators love us so much because what they see here is a community of people who are invested in being curious and creative together.
All the ways that Meridian makes school fun and challenging.
Too often in schools, students are told what to learn and then given a standardized test to see if they learned it. Learning at Meridian is designed to engage students. We know that when students investigate interesting questions, they’ll be motivated to do complex work.