Vision, Mission, and Beliefs

Pinckneyville Middle School will become a world-class school where every student acquires the knowledge and skills to be an active, compassionate, and successful life-long learner.

The mission of Pinckneyville Middle School is to provide, support, and pursue excellence in academic knowledge, skills, and behavior for each student through a challenging framework of international education resulting in measured improvement against local, state, national, and world-class standards.

• Our core business is teaching and learning.
• A quality education is the shared responsibility of the child, family, school and community.
• Learning occurs when faculty and students are engaged in a rigorous curriculum within a positive, safe, and orderly environment.
• Learning is a life-long process involving intellectual, social, emotional and physical growth.
• Learning connects to real-world applications.
• Every student can learn the academic knowledge and skills and demonstrate the citizenship necessary to be successful.
• High learning standards apply to every student.
• Learning promotes cultural understanding and respect.

Pinckneyville Middle School and the entire Norcross IB Cluster is committed to the academic, social and ethical development of each member of our learning community. “Academic honesty must be seen as a set of values and skills that promote personal integrity and good practice in teaching, learning, and assessment. It is influenced and shaped by a variety of factors including peer pressure, culture, parental expectations, role modeling, and taught skills.”

All stakeholders have an obligation to promote the learner profile characteristic of being principled. According to the IB Learner Profile, people who are principled “act with integrity and honesty with a strong sense of fairness and justice, and with respect for the dignity and rights of people everywhere.”