Principal’s Message

I am pretty late updating the Principal’s Message and even I have become quite bored with the message from the fall. There is one benefit of waiting so long to update the message and that is it has given us more time to report some very good news.

We have just learned that the U.S. News and World Report have cited SMSA as “One of America’s Best High Schools” for the third consecutive year. We are extremely proud of this recognition and it validates everyone’s commitment and hard work. I believe we are successful because we have developed a rigorous, relevant and interesting curriculum.  We have a skilled staff that has set high standards and have equally high expectations of our students. We have wonderful students who also happen to be unique and outstanding people and lastly we have active, concerned families who demand excellence from their children and from their children’s school.

Our senior class has been busy applying to colleges and applying for scholarship money. To date our seniors have been awarded about $605,000.00 dollars in scholarship money.  We do not feel that it is beyond our students to reach a million dollars in financial awards to start their college careers. That is an astounding amount considering there are only 79 candidates for graduation come June 2010.

 

Lastly as December seems to be flying by, thoughts of the Holidays are now upon us. This will be the first holiday season in 35 years that I have not celebrated with my wife Joanne. It is a reminder to me that the Holidays, no matter what your affiliations may be, are about family. So from your sons and daughter’s school family, we wish our students and their families the very best.  Hope the Holiday Vacation is a peaceful and restful one as we will need to hit the road running when we come back to school in preparation for the CAPT and CMT’s.