Good Shepherd School offers a curriculum that is shaped to meet student needs and learning styles. Connections are made between student experiences and curriculum content. Expanding on the Diocesan curriculum has been successful for all learning styles. Each younger child is paired with a "buddy" student of an older grade to work on projects and reading activities. In grades K-8, students participate weekly in physical education, computer, music, and art classes.

Primary Grades (K, 1, 2)

Learning in these grades is focused on building crucial reading and math skills. Each year, a culture is chosen and explored by exposing children to food, clothing, and traditions of that culture. Across the curriculum, learning takes place kinesthetically through the use of technology, learning centers, manipulatives, and other hands-on activities. Reading is enhanced by activities and contests in conjunction with the Title I specialist. Religion is integrated into the curriculum as a way of belonging to God's family through the world, our families, and through the church family. Each year of religion in the primary grades is built upon as a foundation to the sacraments of Reconciliation and Eucharist in the spring of the second grade year.

Intermediate Grades (3, 4, 5)

 In these grades, students are given more responsibility in academic and extracurricular aspects. The love of reading is celebrated through the Book-It program. The curriculum expands to meet the needs of this age group in language arts, math, science, social studies, and research. Third grade students have researched famous African Americans and have presented information by "becoming" that person in our real-life wax museum. Fourth grade students participate in a cross-curricular activity involving reading, technology, science, art, math, and social studies. Fifth grade students participate in the Starbase Atlantis program at a Navy Reserve base, which exposes the students to mechanical and electrical engineering. Religion is taught daily and also incorporated into all curricula. Students attend mass once a week, which allows them to better understand and participate in the sacraments. Using Jesus and Mary as models for their lives, students solve everyday dilemmas as witnesses to their faith.

Middle School Grades (6, 7, 8)

At the middle school level, The Language Arts are taught using classic American novels ie: short fiction, non-fiction and focus on comprehension skills and strategies. Mathematics is reinforced with hands-on activities in graphing, measurement, scaling, and probability. Algebra is offered to students in grades seven and eight who have shown an interest and aptitude for higher-level mathematics. Life science, physical science, and chemistry are highlighted in the junior high science curriculum. The social studies curriculum is enhanced with current events, historical field trips, dramatic recreations, and local newspaper articles. During election time, students have conducted a school-wide mock election and presentation of the election issues. Students spend time focusing how to integrate God into their lives. Church History is taught in correlation with current religious topics, and the relevance between the two is discussed. Also, an in-depth Bible study is done in seventh grade to familiarize students with the books of the Bible and their authors. Seventh and eighth  graders begin their preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation, to be held in their eighth or ninth grade year.