School Contacts

 

South Orange Middle School
70 North Ridgewood Road
South Orange, NJ 07079

 

Main Office: 973-378-2772
Ms. Hellstern: x2000

 

Principal: Lynn A. Irby-Hill – lirby@somsd.k12.nj.us
Assistant Principal: Donovan Smalls II — Testing Coordinator — dsmalls@somsd.k12.nj.us
Assistant Principal: James Waldron — 504 Coordinator — jwaldron@somsd.k12.nj.us

 

To contact staff members, district email addresses generally follow the following format: Staff member’s first initial, followed by the first SEVEN characters of his/her last name@somsd.k12.nj.us.  For example, John Smith = jsmith@somsd.k12.nj.us. For voice mail, call the main office number and follow the prompts to enter the first few letters of the person’s last name.

 

You can also click HERE for the district website directory.

 

District e-mail addresses are created by using the person’s first initial along with up to the first seven letters of their last name, followed by @somsd.k12.nj.us.


HSA: 
somshsaquestions@gmail.com

 

2025-2026 Team Leader List 

  A full staff contact list is found on pgs. 13-14 of the school handbook published by SOMS.

 

 

6th Grade

6A – Linda Abella: labella@somsd.k12.nj.us

6B – Jessica Squires: jsquires@somsd.k12.nj.us

6C – Lauren Keegan: lkeegan@somsd.k12.nj.us

 

7th Grade

7A – Frank Guastella: fguastel@somsd.k12.nj.us

7B – Nicole Chirlo: nchirlo@somsd.k12.nj.us

7C – Elizabeth LiPuma: elipuma@somsd.k12.nj.us

 

8th Grade

8A – Lynn McGlotten: lmcglott@somsd.k12.nj.us

8B – Anna Crane: acrane@somsd.k12.nj.us

8C – Talaya Hampton: thampton@somsd.k12.nj.us

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