Once arriving at our doors, each Lang student quickly becomes an empowered member of their classroom community by helping translate the school's Code of Honor — being civil, constructive, and self-reflective in all our interactions — into guiding principles for their peer group. Students in both the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools take classes together with ability and interest peers, not just age peers, and many Middle and Upper School students take on a mentoring relationship with a Lower School student throughout each school year. While Lower School (and 6th grade) students eat together in their classrooms, then walk to local parks and playgrounds for recess, 7th-12th grade students typically either eat in a designated lunch areas in the school or head into the Financial District in small groups for lunch and return to Lang for games of chess, talks with friends and favorite teachers, or time with a good book.