Our Mission Statement:

We ensure a caring learning environment where individuals have the opportunity to reach their potential in a changing world.

Educational Philosophy.

It is the belief of Sweet Home School District #55 that each student is a unique individual who varies in the time needed to reach his or her capabilities and that each student should be assisted to believe in himself or herself and strive to do his or her best as an independent learner. Thus, the primary aim of the Sweet Home Schools is to recognize individual differences in helping each child develop his or her individual abilities to the maximum.

The Sweet Home Schools are dedicated to the total personal development of each student to the limits of his or her abilities and interests in a sequentially coordinated curriculum that allows for individual differences. Staff members will strive to aid in each student's intellectual, physical, moral, emotional, aesthetic, and social growth so that he or she may become a useful and responsible member of home, community, and society while leading a personally rewarding life.

The Board believes that the ultimate goal of an education in the Sweet Home Schools should be to provide the student with the necessary skills and knowledge to lead a happy, productive life and to be an independent citizen in a rapidly changing society.


As each child's abilities develop, he or she is expected to acquire a high degree of proficiency in the use of skill subjects, to attain efficient and satisfying work habits, to grow strong physically, to acquire wholesome leisure time interests, to learn to give responsible direction to life, to develop desirable social attitudes, to assume citizenship responsibilities and to cultivate desirable intellectual interests.

In achieving this result, we believe that the school alone does not accomplish the development of the whole individual. The home and community must also contribute to student growth by establishing attitudes that stimulate learning. The ultimate success of the student is therefore dependent upon the student, the school, the home and the community.