Grades 6 to 8

What is a good secular homeschool curriculum for middle school?

For grades 6 to 8, Clareza Academy is a secular homeschool curriculum with a full core year at each grade, math through Pre-Algebra, NGSS-aligned Earth, life and physical science, English and history, plus Spanish, health, art, music, PE and life skills, and every course can be read in full before you pay.

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The core year, grade by grade

Grade 6: Ratios, Relationships, and the Number System; Reading, Reasoning, and Writing; Earth and Space Systems; and The Ancient World, from Mesopotamia to Rome. Grade 7: Proportional Reasoning and Rational Number Systems; Reading Arguments, Writing Positions; Life Science; and World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE. Grade 8: Pre-Algebra; Physical Science; Structure, Irony, and Argument; and United States History to Reconstruction, with Civics.

Electives for grades 6 to 8

¡Empecemos! Spanish for Middle School, Home Base: Practical Arts and Life Skills, Physical Education for Grades 6-8, Health for Middle School, an introduction to visual art, an introduction to music appreciation, and Finding, Judging, and Using Information, a research literacy course for the web.

Typed reasoning, not tapped answers

From Grade 6 a child types their reasoning instead of tapping a choice, across every subject, and Clara asks harder questions. When an answer is wrong she explains the specific mistake rather than marking it.

Secular science you can check

Science follows the Next Generation Science Standards. Grade 7 Life Science teaches evolution as science, and you can read its units before you buy, with no account.

The parent's job becomes oversight

Middle school runs independently. A parent checks the dashboard, reads Clara's conversations from the last 30 days, and steps in when a skill stalls. Hours log themselves and a transcript prints in one click.

What this is not

  • It is not a live online school. There are no classes, no scheduled teacher and nobody to call during the day.
  • It is screen-based, apart from PE. Plan on roughly 30 to 50 minutes on screen per subject per day.
  • It is not accredited and does not issue a diploma.

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Free for 30 days. We take a card now and charge nothing until then. $29 a month after that, for every child in the family. Cancel anytime in a couple of taps. Cancel before day 30 and you pay nothing at all.

Before your child starts: what we collect and why

We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Paying by card is how you give consent.

Read what we collect and why

Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic (an AI company) receives the chat text and the lesson, with your child's first name but no last name or account details, to write Clara's replies. That is how Clara works, so it is part of the service. If you switch on answering out loud for a child, their voice is turned into text on our own server and then discarded; it is never sent to another company. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies (which can include your child's first name) into the read-aloud voice. Our email provider sends you reports about your child. Nobody trains AI on your child's data, and nobody sells it.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailingour support address. If you refuse the AI sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
  • Safety: if your child writes something suggesting they may be hurt or in danger, we email you and Clareza's owner the same day.

Paying by card is how you give consent. Full details, including how long we keep each thing: Privacy Policy (version 2026-10-05).

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Questions parents ask

What math does Clareza teach in middle school?

Grade 6 ratios and the number system, Grade 7 proportional reasoning and rational numbers, and Grade 8 Pre-Algebra, which leads into Algebra I in Grade 9.

Is there Spanish for middle school?

Yes, ¡Empecemos! Spanish for Middle School, for grades 6 to 8. Spanish I and Spanish II follow in high school.

Can a middle schooler do it alone?

Day to day, yes. Clara teaches the lessons and the questions grade themselves; the parent reviews the dashboard and the conversations.

Is it secular?

Yes. No religious content in any subject, and science follows the Next Generation Science Standards.

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