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Thank you Suffern Central for approving our 2025-26 school budget! 

A true #OneSuffern celebration took place at Suffern High School as our middle and high schools came together for Multicultural Night, a vibrant evening honoring the rich diversity within our school community!
 

The Vietnam War is an integral part of the history curriculum for eighth graders at Suffern Middle School. And to make this monumental moment in history more relatable for students, eighth grade teachers went straight to the source: local veterans who spent part of their teens and early 20s in country.

Suffern Middle School teachers Russ Rice and K.C. Davan are fans of both history and amusement parks so it’s only natural that they would come up with a #PBL that marries both interests. Eighth graders in Davan’s class created a park that had four different lands based off of historical events that happened in the 1920s with clever names like Politics Plaza and Depression Drive. They also used ChatGPT to create super realistic images of their theme parks. (Creating the images and coming up with the rides was the most fun part, students told us. Creating the website was the most difficult.)

Last year, bestselling YA author Adam Gidwitz visited Suffern Middle School to speak to sixth and seventh graders about his book "Max in the House of Spies." The visit was made possible when SMS won a contest that librarian, Mrs. Speechley had entered. Mr. Gidwitz was so impressed with the students and staff at SMS, that he offered to come back again (at no charge) to promote his second book in the series, "Max in the Land of Lies."