Southside School District

The job is the everyday school-nurse scope: direct care, chronic and acute illness, emergencies, IHPs, EAPs, 504s, immunizations, and state screenings under ADE and ADH rules. You cover pre-K through 12th grade in a district that also runs extracurriculars such as engineering, construction, art, and journalism. The physical plant is changing around you. A 146,000-square-foot junior and senior high expansion—classrooms, science and tech labs, fine arts, athletics upgrades, and a new cafeteria—followed a 2021 millage and $22.7M in state funding, with ribbon-cutting set after the earlier groundbreaking. Superintendent Dion Stevens leads the district; Eric Low chairs the school board. Licensed-personnel policies in the 2024–2025 handbook spell out sick leave, a sick-leave incentive bonus, planning time, and personal and professional leave. What people write about working here is mixed and thin. Reviewers talk about challenging but rewarding days, relationships with students and faculty, and a friendly small-town school feel. Glassdoor sits at 3.2 with weak pay and benefits scores; Indeed sits at 4.0 with stronger management marks—both on very few reviews.