Millennium School is an independent middle school in San Francisco. Our premise is that middle school should have both stronger academics - using Socratic seminars and project-based, real-world learning - and a stronger focus on developing the habits and mindsets that lead to happy, meaningful, purposeful lives as adults. After a three-year design process with leading educators, adolescent development experts, and parents and students, we opened in August 2016 with a school model that aspires to realize the full potential of the middle school years.