South St. Paul Public Schools takes pride in the variety of academic, extracurricular, and enrichment activities it provides. Sharing our borders and resources with the community of South St. Paul, you will find us large enough to serve, yet small enough to care.We are Minnesota's first K-12, IB World Schools District. Our high school has offered the prestigious IB Diploma program since 1986. We provide the IB Middle Years Program (MYP) in grades seven through ten. Our elementary schools carry the IB Primary Years Program (PYP) from kindergarten through grade six. At any age, South St. Paul Public Schools offers opportunities to learn, to grow, and to succeed.
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 Unofficial vote count for the South St. Paul special election held on May 21, 2013.
For official vote count, visit the Dakota County Site. Click here to read our press release. To ensure we are being good stewards of our community’s schools and tax dollars, the South St. Paul School District spent the past year conducting a comprehensive facilities review involving staff and community members. The result is a four-point Facilities Master Plan designed to ensure we are providing an effective learning environment to meet our students’ educational needs:
Funding for this plan will come from a $26,675,000 bond, which residents approved 61% to 39% in a vote on May 21, 2013. The total cost to the average South St. Paul homeowner will be less than $7 per month. The Board of Education is unanimous in its support of this plan.
Learning Buddy Volunteer supports reading and math skills  Sandie Titera has volunteered in Erin Gross’s second grade classroom at Kaposia Education Center for three years. Through the Darts Learning Buddy program, Sandie works with students to support their reading and math skills. The students look forward to Sandie’s weekly visits, and Sandie likes “seeing the kids as they progress with their reading and math throughout the school year. It has been such a delight making connections with the youth of our community, forming relationships, and watching them grow academically,” Sandie said.Gooey, Slimy, Slippery, Weird and Fun at Lincoln Center! The Lincoln Center PTA sponsored its third annual Science Night on Friday, April 5, 2013. The evening was free for families, fulfilling the PTA’s mission to offer engaging events without financial pressure on families. Approximately 450 students were able to attend and participate in over 25 learning stations.  Highlights from this year’s Science Night included:
The U of M’s Brain Club, Society of Physics, Alpha Chi Sigma and their chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers also brought exciting demonstrations from their areas of expertise. Visitors got a look at the insides of computers, the Girl Scout Council had toothpick puzzles and fingerprinting, our own LEGO League demonstrated their robot missions, and High Tech Kids had a circuit interactive. The Active Energy Club brought potato clocks and wind turbines, parent and teacher volunteers ran a number of other interactives, and the South St. Paul Educational Foundation generously supported the very popular Fossil Dig. The goal of Science Night is to promote an interest in and curiosity for science and technology among students by making experimentation accessible and fun, offering a wide range of opportunities within science to engage students of varying interest, and by supporting teachers to introduce more science in the classroom. The Science Night team also offered a menu of classroom experiments for teachers to choose from in the weeks leading up to Science Night. Thank you to Lincoln Center parents Lee Ann Schlarman, Nicole Delfino Jansen, Sarah Winslow Brewer, and Elizabeth Songalia for organizing a fun evening for our students and families. South St. Pau  l Schools Participates in State-wide Student SurveySouth St. Paul Schools is again participating in the Statewide Minnesota Student Survey--to provide insight into the strengths, assets and protective factors of Minnesota youth as a whole, as well as the risk factors that challenge their health and learning. Click here to learn more. |
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