Purpose 
A planned program of guidance counseling is an integral part of the educational program of the schools.  Such a program should:

1. Assist students in achieving their optimum growth, with focus on academic achievement.
2. Enable students to draw the greatest benefit from the offerings of the instructional program of the schools.
3. Aid students in identifying options and making choices in vocational and academic educational planning.
4. Assist students in career awareness and planning.
5. Help integrate each student's experience so that she/he can better relate school activity to life outside the school.
6. Help students learn to think, make their own decisions, and solve problems independently. 

Definition 
A program of guidance and counseling shall be offered to all students in grades K through 12 and shall:

1. Include the services of professional guidance personnel and other designated faculty and staff members.
2. Include sessions in effective parenthood. 

Responsibility 
The Superintendent is directed to implement a guidance program which carries out these purposes and:

1. Involves appropriate staff members K-12.
2. Considers each student as an individual.
3. Is integrated with the total education program.
4. Is coordinated with available resources of the community.
5. Cooperates with parents and shares their concern for the development of the student.
6. Provides means for sharing of information among appropriate staff members as may be in the best interest of the student.
7. Is available to all students
8. Establishes a referral system, which utilizes all the aid the schools and community offer, guards the privacy of the student, and monitors the efficacy of such referrals. 

Staffing 
The ratio of elementary counselors to students shall be approximately one for each eight hundred students.  Consulting teachers may be assumed to carry some of this ratio since they deal directly with the students' learning concerns. 

The ratio of secondary counselors to students shall be approximately one for each 350 to 400 secondary students.