Our Promise to You

By the time your child graduates from SBMS, they will have the opportunity to...
  • Have an understanding of how they learn
  • Take a leadership role in a project, event or activity of significance
  • Learn how to push through adversity, and been challenged inside and outside of the classroom
  • Take 11 electives in sports, fine arts, and drama of their choosing each year
  • Fund a person through KIVA.org 
  • Dissect a lung
  • Build a catapult and created a robot
  • Create a piece of art using math equations
  • Write over 30 essays
  • Work in the community studying a career for 50 hours and volunteered at a non-profit for 25 hours
  • Be formally honored by a peer and honored by person of their choice at Rites of Passage ceremony
  • Participate on a stage, performed in a Shakespearean play and performed a Soliloquy as an author of their choice
  • Ride over 300 miles, backpacked 50 miles, and kayaked 55 miles
  • Learn how to fix a flat tire
  • Attend several teacher, student, and parent conferences
  • Write a 5000 word journal in 7th grade, and written and performed a piece of slam poetry
  • Spend 50 nights in a tent, cooked a meal with a team for 200 people, made 65 sandwiches and washed their own dishes
  • Learn CPR
  • Be seen, heard, recognized and loved by our faculty and staff
Santa Barbara Middle School cultivates in our students passion for life and life-long learning, a deep sense of trust in themselves, strength and courage to succeed at life's challenges, and compassion and respect for others.
Santa Barbara Middle School ● 1321 Alameda Padre Serra ● Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Tel: 805-682-2989 ● office@sbms.org