Somers Point School District
Mission and Vision

Somers Point Board of Education Mission

The mission of the Somers Point Board of Education is to foster life-long learning by encouraging our students to discover their fullest potential to become proactive citizens. This is accomplished through:

• Offering diverse, challenging, effective and progressive programs in a safe, nurturing environment
• Adequate facilities and resources
• Our students mastering the knowledge and tools needed for success
• Educational partnership of home, school and community members

Somers Point Board of Education Vision

To be recognized as the pre-eminent catalyst of successful, life-long learners throughout our community. This will be achieved through:

• A commitment to progressive educational programs
• A dedication to high student achievement
• A focus on community awareness and participation
• Valuing the integrity of all individuals
• Inclusion of all constituents including students, parents, teachers, administrators, Board of Education and community members (citizens, businesses and government)

Somers Point Board of Education Commitments, Values & Beliefs

Empower each student to make responsible choices, meet challenges, achieve personal success, and to contribute to a global society as they apply the New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards to become autonomous, lifelong learners who are literate, problem solvers across all disciplines.

We believe that our empowered learners:

• Participate in educational programs that are designed to meet the needs of learners while providing challenging activities in the context of real life situations
• Are aware of community issues and take part in activities to better their community
• Acquire basic skills in obtaining information, thinking critically, solving problems and communicating effectively
• Develop intellectual curiosity and the ability to access information as needed
• Become reflective learners that have an understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses
• Develop the aptitudes and skills to adjust to a changing world and an unpredictable future
• Are lifetime learners who value and accept learning as a continuing and dynamic process affecting all aspects of life.

Somers Point District Goals for Students

The Somers Point Public School District endeavors to prepare every student to:

• Acquire basic skills in obtaining information, thinking critically, solving problems and communicating effectively
• Acquire a stock of basic information concerning the principles of the physical, biological and social sciences; the historical record of human achievements and failures; and current social issues
• Become an effective and responsible contributor to the decision-making processes and activities of the community, state, country and world
• Acquire the ability and the desire to express him/herself creatively in one or more of the arts and to appreciate the aesthetic expressions of other people
• Acquire the knowledge, habits and attitudes that promote personal and public health, both physical and mental
• Acquire the capacities for playing satisfying and responsible roles in family life
• Develop career awareness throughout the curriculum
• Develop intellectual curiosity and a zest for knowledge
• Acquire the understanding of and the ability to form responsible relations with a wide range of other people, including characteristics different from his/her own
• Acquire an understanding of ethical principles and values and the ability to apply them to his/her own life
• Develop an understanding of his/her own worth, abilities, potentials and limitations
• Develop the attitudes and acquire the skills to adjust to a changing world in an unpredictable future.