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GFW Middle School

Growing Future World Class Leaders in Middle School

GFW Middle School is collocated with GFW High School and gives middle school students the perfect transition into more individualized and independent learning. Students have the opportunity to explore introduction courses for each of our three academies. The academies include Agriculture, Engineering & Manufacturing (AEM), Business, Art, Communication & Entrepreneurship (BACE), and Health Sciences and Human Services (HSHS) and are further explored in high school.

Other popular elective courses include our choir and band programs. Students are required to take one or both while in middle school. Technology is used throughout the building and courses like Career & College Readiness in eighth grade provide students a real world lens to focus their learning.

Classes start at 8:30 a.m. and are dismissed at 3:20 p.m

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GFW Academies and Pathways

Focused on Career and College Readiness and Local Workforce Development

Using the Minnesota Department of Education’s Career and College Readiness Framework, GFW Public Schools has created academics: AEM, BACE, and HSHS. Each academy has a variety of career pathways to help identify courses that could best prepare students for their future careers. GFW is offering many new elective courses as well as college credit options and industry certifications. The academies are designed to help focus the electives students participate in to become career and college ready.

Learn more about the Academies and Pathways at GFW