Each Edison school consists of small, flexible, schools within schools, called "academies." This organization ensures that students are better known and more closely attended to by adults. A K-5 school consists of a Primary Academy for students in grades K-2, and an Elementary Academy for grades 3-5. Higher grades are organized into a Junior Academy (grades 6-8), a Senior Academy (grades 9 and 10), and a Collegiate Academy (grades 11 and 12). Within academies students are organized into multigrade houses of 100-180 students each. The students in each house are taught by a team of four to six teachers who stay with the same house of students for the duration of their academy experience.

What does the curriculum look like?