1610 N Burdick St
Kalamazoo, MI 49007

Most of the teachers are great but a few like the choir teacher make students' days harder.I learn a lot but there are a lot of fights.

We have loved this school. The teachers are fun and engaging and the kids come from a range of incomes. We have two able-bodied children without learning challenges so I can’t speak to the schools abilities with special needs, but we have loved our time with these teachers. The school itself is historic and a charming space for learning. Like most public schools there is an emphasis on behavior and meeting grade-specific metrics, but the teachers also seem very willing to meet every individual where they are and work with kids at every level.

Certain teachers at KCHS are very pushy about their politics. School should be about learning and growing. In order to do that topics need to be discussed and debated in a fair and mediated way. That does not happen here. This schools focus seems to be only to get kids to do better on state tests and "prepare" them for college, which, by the numbers, they fail at. It's very disheartening to talk to my child about school and learn that it has only gotten worse since I attended high school here 20 years ago. If your child is going to succeed here you as a parent will have to be more heavily involved in talking with your student about topics the school deem unimportant. Overall I would say the lack of an actual education is NOT made up for by the Kalamazoo Promise. Your child would be better served at a better school and then having to find a way to fund their own college education. If I could go back a do it over my child would not be at any KPS school.