41 Garfield Ave
Hatfield, PA 19440

Pennfield Middle School no longer celebrates students who were able to achieve honour roll. As a special needs student who was there, I was disappointed with the lack of accommodations and it made learning there a really tough and challenging place. Good teachers are able to make harder subjects seem easier, but the teachers there made all the easier subjects difficult to understand.

My daughter has attended Hatfield Elementary since 2017 when she started kindergarten and our experience has been positive, Hatfield promotes an inclusive environment. I've always felt that I could communicate with staff and felt heard. As a parent, you do feel a sense of community and I've always felt my daughter is being challenged academically and is learning subject matter appropriate to her grade level and beyond. I think Hatfield Elementary does and has done an exceptional job of fostering her growth both academically and emotionally and we are grateful for the support we feel and look forward to when our two younger sons will attend.

This school has many positive attributes including a very robust selection of courses, a variety of leveled classes to meet student needs, great teachers, staff and admin that are interested and engaged in the students. Numerous STEAM clubs and extracurricular groups as well as huge variety of sports. It is also very inclusive of the diversity in its student body. Where NP is lacking however is in Special Education, fulfillment and creation of realistic and supportive IEPs. If your kid has learning differences, it is important to educate yourself on PA law around IDEA and FAPE as well as the IEP process. It is also very lacking in an effective management of bullying and implementing top-down positive social emotional programming programming. I cannot completely fault the district on this however as many of the parents are also bullies and teach it to their kids. What I would like to see implemented is a stronger anti-bullying policy with consequences that impact not just the students but inconvenience the parents just enough for them to motivate their child to stop with bullying. Overall a great school which prepares students for whatever path they choose after college with 2 significant caveats that the school district really needs to prioritize.