Sierra Canyon School vs. Chaminade College Preparatory Middle School

Sierra Canyon School is a selective independent, nondenominational, coeducational day school for students in early Kindergarten through Tenth Grades, expanding to add Eleventh Grade in fall 2007.

Sierra Canyon School is modeled in the independent school Socratic tradition of rigorous academics, intellectual discourse, individual growth, and free thought.

Sierra Canyon School is an academically excellent, college preparatory school committed to an environment in which students realize their greatest intellectual, ethical, and physical promise.

We are defined by an energized, attentive, and diverse student-teacher culture.

Sierra Canyon School offers a rigorous academic curriculum taught by passionate, diverse, and expert teachers.

Our students embrace the intellectual challenge and flourish within this dynamic environment.

We are developing a first-rate athletics program that fosters good sportsmanship, hard work, and healthy competition.

Chaminade College Preparatory is a Catholic coeducational institution for young men and women from grades six through twelve.

Chaminade Middle School is committed to educating students who will positively influence the future.

Guidelines, influenced by the Marianist philosophy of education, provide students with a firm foundation in faith, a college preparatory education that recognizes the need for adaptation and change, and the ability to both identify and act upon the global community's need for service.

Academic integrity, teamwork, dialogue, acceptance of others, and the search for truth are key elements of the curriculum.

Life long learning, critical thinking and creativity are strong components of the educational goals Chaminade has for each student.