Sion is committed to supporting each student’s academic and personal growth, empowering each young woman to use her unique gifts as she becomes a self-confident, faith-filled adult.
Sion’s counselors serve as guides for each student as she navigates her way through high school. Our comprehensive school counseling plan ensures that students develop a set of skills that will support them in college and beyond.
Academic Support and Personal Counseling
The high school counseling department boasts a team of highly qualified professionals, each holding advanced degrees in counseling or related fields. With a commitment to individualized support, the department maintains an impressive counselor-to-student ratio, ensuring that students receive personalized attention and guidance throughout their academic journey. This dedicated team plays a crucial role in fostering a supportive and enriching environment, helping students navigate academic challenges, college preparation, and personal development with expertise and care.
| Academic Planning |
| Before students begin their first year at Sion, they meet with counselors to review their course placement and elective choices. This relationship continues as the counselors and students work together to develop a four-year plan that prepares students for successful life beyond Sion. |
| Social-Emotional Learning |
| Through individual meetings, classroom visits, small group work, and school-wide initiatives, the counselors develop programming to help students understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. |
| Responsive Services |
| There may be times when a student struggles with issues of physical or mental health. Sion’s counselors act as advocates during these times by coordinating communication and treatment plans with families, teachers, and health care professionals. |
| Learning Differences |
| Sion offers limited accommodations to students with diagnosed learning differences. Sion’s accommodations counselor works closely with students and families to build personal advocacy skills and create an environment that builds on the student’s strengths. For more specific information about Sion’s academic services for students with diagnosed learning differences, please download our brochure. |
College Counseling
Sion’s College Counseling department provides a four-year, comprehensive and individualized program to prepare students for successful application, acceptance and matriculation into college.
The college counseling program is designed to meet the needs of students and families at each stage of the high school experience. Programming is delivered through individual and family meetings, classroom and small group presentations, college rep visits and college tours, morning coffees and evening workshops.
Our goal is to help each student discover the college or university that is the best academic, personal and financial fit for her and her family. This process requires introspection, exploration, and research. Through individual and family conversations, interests and strengths assessments, academic planning and surveys, college counselors help students to identify their priorities and build a balanced college list.
College counselors collaborate with admission officers at universities, visit college campuses, and participate in regional and national conferences to reinforce Sion’s reputation of graduating well-rounded individuals, faith-filled global citizens, and servant leaders.
Standardized Test Preparation
Sion’s faculty prepares students to understand the content they need to be successful on college entrance exams. Our counselors provide a support system for preparing for the ACT and SAT. This includes multiple opportunities for practice exams, weekend review courses with Sion faculty, immediate test preparation with Princeton review, and structured times during the year for analysis and goal setting based on practice test results.
Grade 9: Pre-ACT in September
Grades 10-11: Practice ACT in September & PSAT in October
Grade 11: ACT in April
For College Admissions Reps
| Schedule |
| Sion uses Scoir to schedule college visits with our students. College Reps interested in a visit to Sion, please click here to schedule. Contact Heather Henning at hhenning@ndsion.edu or Erin Stein Hughes at ehughes@ndsion.edu if you need assistance. |
| Directions To Campus |
| Sion has two campuses. Make sure you head to our high school campus: 10631 Wornall Road, Kansas City, Missouri, 64114 |
| School Profile |
| Click here to download our official School Profile. |
College Rep Visits and Campus Visits
Sion hosts 100+ college representatives to our school annually, giving juniors and seniors the opportunity to meet and network with admission officers from colleges across the country and abroad. As a part of Sion’s Experiential Learning & Deep Dives program, the College Counseling department also organizes two college trips each year. Sion students have the opportunity to explore many local colleges through this program, as well as visit colleges outside the Kansas City area. Past tours include Chicago and Denver.
Sion College Counselors
Sion dedicates two college counselors to working with Sion students and families. Erin and Heather both have backgrounds working in college admissions, have served on the executive board of Missouri Association for College Admission Counseling, and hold masters degrees in school counseling.
Erin Hughes
Director of College Counseling
estein@ndsion.edu
Heather Henning
Asst. Director of College Counseling
hhenning@ndsion.edu
