108 Orchard Dr
Nitro, WV 25143

My school experience here has been not the greatest. Teachers are rude, there are fights almost every day, bomb threats and more. Once you get up into 8th grade, it’s a lot more calm than 7th and 6th. The principle only cares for male sports that are popular. (Like football and baseball) they don’t care for any other sports as much. They don’t care for discipline either, sure you. Might get ISS or OSS for like a week but it doesn’t do too much. It doesn’t change how they act or what they do. Many teachers are rude and yell for even the little things. They also give old/stale food. We’ve received old ranch that made a lot of students sick. I would never ever send my kid here, it’s like a prison and this school sucks! They don’t have service either so you wouldn’t be able to call your parents unless they allowed you to. Even if you were puking, and you didn’t have proof they wouldn’t let you call and they’d have to absolutely check you temperature. This only proofs they don’t care about your mental health or wellbeing. They also do not care about dress code either, girls will walk around with their stomachs all the way out with short shorts and nobody will say anything, but the second you get off successmaker they write you up and you get lunch d-hall or ISS. Be for real. Don’t send your kids here.

My daughter attends k here this year. She has a great pair of teachers! They have taught her so much this year already and have her reading on her own! She has been challenged this year as she enjoys this kind of teaching. I think we have the best two teachers in the school, aside from one other in a higher grade. The teachers are extremely involved with these kids, although as some parents have stated, some teachers do scream at the students, one of which is no longer here this year. I spend a lot of time on the inside of this school with volunteering here and some things I have witnessed definitely was brought up and needs vast improvement. However, the principal this year makes surethe kids are completely safe while in her care. She is strict but great!

This school is a very mediocre institution. The administration often seems lost and ignorant as to how to appropriately approach situations. The vice principal once told me that, in regard to the school's performance, "It doesn't matter what the kids think." NHS hardly prepares the student for college, and does even less to prepare them for the real world and having a career. Many teachers seem to try harder at being the students friend instead of actually teaching. It is however, what you make of it, and the resources provided by the school can be used by an independent mind to very much succeed.