1708 Elliott Avenue NW
Olympia, WA 98502

Extremely woke , anything other than leftist thinking will bot be tolerated

Overall, the worst school for my child. Principal and vice principal are bullies. When they leave messages for you, they can't even be bothered to pick up the phone, they just tell at the speaker phone. It is quite unnerving. They do not consider that a child may have had a hard life, or be going thru difficulties. Sit down, shut up, and don't ask questions works well at this school.

This is my daughter’s second year at LP Brown. Since the addition of an experienced, highly capable principal (2021) there have been many positive changes in both student learning and overall support. Additionally, there are new programs to support students and community. In our opinion, the ratings do not accurately reflect the current experience at LP Brown. Given time and resources, I see this school becoming one of the top rated elementary schools in the OSD.

My daughter has been attending ORLA for her sophomore year. She feels the environment is fun, engaged, positive and honoring of various learning styles and needs. While we wish it were more ethnically and culturally diverse, we do appreciate the neurodiversity, gender diversity (not just girl/boy), and socioeconomic diversity. This is an interesting blend of alternative school, home school and traditional public school. I love the mission, really addresses a need in the community where kids might otherwise “fall through the cracks”. The class offerings are a good mix of core classes and fun electives like yearbook/media production, pottery, and theater. We have seen our daughter thriving academically and the monthly progress accountability checks seem to help. She is a self-motivated learner and I do wonder how kids who are not self-starters are able to keep up with assignments as it does seem like there may be some wasted instructional time while the class “goofs off” (social time?) and there ends up being a lot of homework time needed at home as a result. But that might not be the case for all kids - mine tends to get caught up in having fun with friends. To be honest, this is tipping the scales for my kiddo in a direction she needed after missing out socially during the pandemic and following years. Overall we are quite happy with our experience here and wish we could have enrolled her earlier and lived closer so we could be more involved in the school community.