Counseling Services

A comprehensive school counseling program is provided at Ladue Middle School. It is designed to address needs of all students by helping them to develop positive self-concepts, healthy social skills and interpersonal relationships, and educational success. Students may make appointments with their grade-level counselor in the Welcome Center.

How Do School Counselors Support All Students?

Students can visit the counselor themselves or be referred by a parent, teacher, or administrator

  • School Counseling Curriculum: implement educational activities and classroom lessons on social-emotional learning

  • Responsive Services: support students through brief individual counseling, small group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and referral to outside counseling services

  • Individual Student Planning: help students develop academic and career goals, support students in transitional periods

  • System Support: evaluate effectiveness, collaboration with staff to support student needs, community outreach, & committee participation.


For more information on the Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program, visit DESE's website.

Multi-Tiered System of Supports

School counselors directly intervene and indirectly support students through multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). MTSS is a culturally sustaining, evidence-based framework implemented in pre-K–12 schools using data-based problem-solving to integrate academic and behavioral instruction and intervention at tiered intensities to improve the learning and social/emotional functioning of all students (Sink, 2016). Guided by student-centered data, MTSS teams engage in cyclical data-based problem solving; make informed decisions about general, compensatory and special education; and assist in the creation of a well-integrated and seamless system of instruction and intervention (Ehren, Montgomery, Rudebush, & Whitmire, 2006).