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Getting To Know Us.

Southern Middle School  is located in the south central part of  Pulaski County, Kentucky, just inside the city limits of Somerset. We educate students that live in the central, southern and western end of the county. Our student population comes from varied backgrounds with diverse cultural experiences. Our Feeder school's includes Burnside, Nancy, Oak Hill, and Southern Elementary schools. We are the feeder school for Southwestern High School.  Our school's student population will range from 900 to as high as 1050 students. We have a faculty and staff of 100.  Our aim at Southern Middle School is to provide each student with a positive environment for academic achievement and character development leading to the pursuit of individual excellence. The stakeholders at Southern believe that all students can learn and should be afforded educational opportunities to be successful in academics, social relationships, citizenship, employment, and family interaction. Southern Middle operates under the middle school philosophy, working toward meeting the unique needs of the ever changing adolescent.                                                                                                                                                   

The school is currently organized with grade level teaching teams as well as academic departments. At this time we have two 8th grade teams, two 7th, and two 6th grade teams. For more information about the teams check out our teams page . 

Southern Middle provides an exploratory program that includes, ART, PE,  Science Experiments,  Music and Band Classes. As well as an after school chorus program.  

As for Technology;  Southern Middle Middle has two  large Technology lab consisting of 30 stations each, a Media Center Research lab consisting of 30 stations, a smaller Media Center consisting of two stations devoted to AR  and  two stations devoted to Card catalog. Each of our Language Arts teachers and Math teachers at all three grade levels utilize mini labs in their classroom s for special   language art and math software programs. All other classrooms have  stations and several have mini labs for science and social studies research opportunities.  Software extensively used at Southern Middle include:                                                   

Renaissance Learning programs, STAR Math and STAR Reading (software used to measure skill levels) Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math (specialized academic software programs).  

Read & Write Gold (used to enhance reading and writing abilities)                                                                              

ILP  (explores the world of careers) 

Examgen (for math test construction)

Grade Master 600 (for scoring Scantron hardware)

One Call Now is used for alerting parents to student absences as well as for the teams and the school to call home with special team/school messages and upcoming events.

Other programs are available through Microsoft Office and the various textbook companies.                                              

Many opportunities for the student to learn utilizing technology and the World Wide Web are afforded as well. Programs like the SMG (Stock Market Game) are used to teach students about investing and the stock market and our WNN (Warrior News Network/STLP) teaches students about journalism and Video production. 

Character education is an ever important concept included into our school's everyday activities. Each morning on the WNN morning news broadcast the character word of the month is given and segment called "Project Wisdom" is presented to the student body.  Each Year in connection with character education SMS will take part in and usually excel in various charitable activities. These activities include: A Christmas Time food drive for the needy in our area called "The Feud For Food",    Shoe Box Ministries (sponsored by our school's FCA) shipping boxes full of Christmas joy to under privileged children in other countries, Making up money for the "Make A Wish Foundation" that allows a child that One time fantasy vacation. The Angel Tree in which hundreds of under privileged children in our area have been helped through the generosity of their peers..

Other offerings at SMS:  Special programs offered through the school consist of the Gifted and Talented Program.  Extended school services include peer tutoring, after school tutoring, and 4 weeks of academic academies to enhance student achievement. SMS has access to an on campus Youth Services Center that provides various services to our students and their parents. 

The faculty constantly explores new ideas to improve all aspects of the school environment while maintaining our ultimate focus- STUDENT.

Was SMS always a Middle School?  Find out Here