Sullivan High School perceives the diversity of its student body as its primary asset and its principle challenge. This perception has guided Sullivan's efforts to create an appropriate and effective learning environment for all of its students. In developing its educational programs, Sullivan strives to take the varied ethnic, socioeconomic, and academic backgrounds of its students into account , while simultaneously fostering the uniqueness inherent to every student. Sullivan's strength as an educational institution relies upon its successful accommodation to and encouragment of diversity within a context of shared educational experiences, and it hopes to instill a commitment to excellence in its students via an instructional program founded on such a premise.