Our Curriculum

Breakthrough Manchester provides an academically rigorous, multi-year curriculum aimed at supplementing and enriching the learning students do in their schools.  Courses and programs offered throughout middle school challenge students to develop strong study skills that lay the foundation for challenging high school classes. 

Teachers use a professionally developed curriculum, custom designed for Breakthrough. The benefits of this approach is that teachers get to a high level of pedagogical success in a short amount of time, and we are able to maximize student growth in the short six weeks we have with them each summer.

During the six-week summer session, students are required to take courses in math, science, reading and writing.  Each of these core classes meets daily for 50 minutes and requires 20 to 25 minutes of nightly homework.  Additionally, all students take courses in visual and performing arts and athletics that teach basic skills that prepare them for participation in high school, and potentially collegiate extracurricular activities.