South School's mission is to provide students with the necessary skills to live, learn, work and play as persons of good character.

We believe:
That children are entitled to a quality education in a safe, clean and orderly environment,that the learning process should provide interesting, challenging and relevant curriculum with a focus on basic skill, that students, parents and staff are essential partners in the education of children, that student's individual learning needs must be met in order to help them develop to their fullest potential, that students must be active participants in learning, that assessment, done on a continuing basis, helps to insure that student's needs are being met.