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Saipan Southern High School
Executive Summary
Saipan Southern High School (SSHS) opened its doors on August 16, 2002, and has remained a vanguard of excellence in education in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). SSHS is one of the three public high schools on the island of Saipan, and serves the village communities of Koblerville, San Antonio, and Dandan. With the increase in demand of offering many more classes that will help the students’ college and career readiness, we must look into building more classrooms to better serve our students and community.
SSHS has become a symbol of pride for the CNMI. Our students have represented the Commonwealth in national and international competitions. Since the school opening, our students matriculate at colleges and universities across the United States and around the world, and they also serve in the U.S. Armed Forces.
“Un Eskuela, Un Korason. One School, One Heart.” Is our school motto. Each day every member of our school family strives to live this motto. These words resonate with administrators, counselors, teachers, staff members and the students who remain at our campus and those who have passed through this campus and have moved on to other ventures.
Our students come from many parts of Asia and from many Pacific island territories and nations. The students we serve come from families who have come to the CNMI to work and many more who now call the CNMI home. Because of SSHS' high academic standards, many in our community have come to associate our school with prestige and honor. Many of our students come from the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, and SSHS is equipped to serve them regardless of ethnicity or socioeconomic status.
Students are encouraged to embrace SSHS's mission, vision, and philosophy in a variety of ways. ESLRs are incorporated into lesson plans that often use cooperative learning and provide opportunities to “think outside the box.” We also offer students the chance to apply their knowledge and skills in real-life situations, such as raising money to participate in the Olympics, because we acknowledge and respect students as stakeholders in their education and recognize that education is not confined to four walls in a school. Perhaps our greatest means of embodying our school’s purpose is the continued growth of programs that challenge our students, such as the Teacher Academy within the Career Pathway project. This is a vital aspect of our school’s purpose of raising the bar, so that students continue to reach and surpass the expectations of the school, the community, and themselves.
