Lower School
Gilmour's Lower School curriculum focuses on in-depth learning rather than the delivery of a certain amount of information. It attempts to make lessons personally significant to students while covering material all students need to know. Faculty are required to make connections among various subjects and to expose students to natural connections among their courses. Lower School students have competed at the state or national levels of National History Day over the last several years.
A reecent $2.5 million expansion to the Lower School facilities included a new music center with practice rooms and keyboard lab, new library with a computer lab, a science lab, classrooms with access to the Internet and wireless laptops, exhibition area, and an electronic research center.
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