409 Orange St
Shelby, NC 28150

Elizabeth Elementary is a wonderful caring school that really cares about our children and prepares them for the grade they are entering. My son is going from Kindergarden to 1st grade and he is ready for the trip. Thank you all at Elizabeth Elementary for preparing him.

This school is absolutely horrendous. The medal detectors, bag searches, and no cellphones policy, I understand. But it's stupid considering they put their money towards incriminating us instead of putting a/c in the gym first. Im also having trouble understanding why it's necessary to ban phones at lunch, our only free time of the day. We are not allowed to stand up and move to a different table in the lunch room to talk to anyone. Regardless if we were sitting alone, once you're seating you're not allowed to move. They shut down our lions den and took away our hour lunch for 25 minutes. This 25 minutes includes going to the lunch room, going through line, finding a seat, and eating. Which there is hardly enough time for. I've witnessed many students not even finishing their lunch because they simply did not have enough time. We are also not allowed to bring food out of the lunch room for any reason, so many kids are going hungry. Our lunches has been split into 4 separate lunches, which means a lot of us are seated in a lunch without friends. We simply sit there at the lunch, staring at the tables because we don't have friends to socialize with and cannot use our phones without being punished. It feels as though prisoners have more freedom than Cleveland county High School students. When I have tried to address these issues with the principal, he asked me if I "thought we deserved freedoms at school" and then then I was promptly dismissed me by turning his back to me. I feel as though no students opinions and feelings are being heard. Maybe the people who put these rules in place have forgotten what it's like to be young, to be a teenager. Coming to school everyday, being expected to behave like robots. IE: no talking, no interactions, no phones. This makes for a very miserable existence in every school day. Which in my opinion is going to cause more altercations, therefore defeating the entire purpose of all the new rules.

They care for each and every student even if the students are or can be bad

I am part of the first class and I have experienced what I wouldn't have experienced if I went to an original high school. I am blessed and proud. you are pushed to do great things that you are capable of to succeed. The teachers help you tremendously if you have misunderstandings. We are crew not passenger, a leader not a follower, and we work together as one. The academics are based on expodential learning with outward bound while also challenging you to be all that you can to strive for the best.