About
Our School

Southside Academy is a new private, Christian school located at Peacemakers in South Rocky Mount, NC. We serve low-income families and scholars in grades K-1 in Rocky Mount and surrounding areas. We plan to add an additional grade level each year until 8th grade to continue allowing God to grow and expand us!

Our History

Jessica Levy
Interim Head of School

Jessica is a Speech-Language Pathologist, formerly a middle school English Language Arts teacher, who has over a decade of experience in education. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Maryland in Linguistics with a concentration in Grammar and Cognition. She completed her Master of Communication Disorders at University of South Carolina.

Jessica has experience with children preschool through high school with various needs, including speech sound production delays, stuttering, receptive and expressive language impairments, limited verbal or nonverbal communication, and feeding disorders. Jessica also has experience with adults with swallowing difficulties, memory/cognition impairment, and communication deficits due to stroke or brain injury. She has special interests in the areas of social language and alternative/augmentative communication, especially for children on the Autism spectrum and those with intellectual and cognitive disabilities. As the lead of the Assistive Technology Team in a local school district, Jessica works hard to make sure students have access to the equipment and training they need to get their voices heard.

Jessica is an ASHA certified and North Carolina licensed Speech Language Pathologist and also holds a North Carolina Teaching Certification. She is formally trained in implementation of Pragmatically Organized Dynamic Display (PODD) and Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) for people with complex communication needs.

Mission

For most of the scholars we serve, educational access is hindered by economic disadvantage. Resources that support holistic development, such as rich vocabulary input, professionally-competitive skill development, mental health services, and opportunities and training for parental involvement are not readily available nor adequately tailored for scholars who come from under-resourced households.

At Southside Academy, we exist to foster hope in God by providing children with a remarkable, God-centered education that both challenges them and makes learning fun!

Mission

Administration

Values

"BE Values"

In order to offer the highest quality of education for our scholars, it is crucial that we hold our staff, families and scholars to high expectations. These include, but are not limited to, the following "BE VALUES":