42087 Trent Dr
Canton, MI 48188

Plymouth High School is awesome, teachers are great

As a former Salem student, I can honestly say that I will never allow my future children to step foot in this school. This is a school that deeply prioritizes the over achieving, and ignores everyone else. Teachers and administrators shame students with lower grade point averages rather than helping them improve. Vast majority of the student body feels forgotten, invisible and helpless. A very large amount of the student population has severe mental health issues, for which they provide few resources. However, Salem does have an incredible counseling team. Sadly, they are painfully overwhelmed, and finding someone to talk to is virtually impossible during busy months. Several faculty members are highly unprofessional, and complain about their jobs to students. Majority of their complaints centered around their dismay towards the Salem principal, and their compensation. Some teachers had so much social drama going on it felt like watching a reality show. If you are looking for a school where your child will feel forgotten, unintelligent, and depressed Salem is the place for you! Anyone moving to the Plymouth-Canton area should factor in the price of private high school. (I would recommend St. Catherine's, Divine Child and Father Gabriel Richard)

I graduated in 2023, and this school definitely prepares you for college. P-CEP offers a wide variety of advanced and AP courses, which is helpful. However, it's incredibly easy to feel lonely at this school because of how many students there are. With almost 7,000 students, it's difficult to retain friendships unless you're a part of the same club. Never expect the ability to have lunch with your friends unless you're both in some special program that guarantees it. Throughout my time at P-CEP, at least one student has taken their own life almost every year, and there have been multiple gun and bomb threats that have led to lockdowns. Overall, good school for learning and college preparation, but not so great at providing students with mental and emotional support.

Everyone at this school is amazing. When you see a principle of school outside every morning to greet her kids and when the dismissal happens she is outside seeing off all her kids. You know this school has got to be amazing!!!

I will start off by saying that there are some really good teachers and staff here. There are staff members that I really do appreciate and respect and thank for being positive role models for kids. Unfortunately, there are also quite a few staff members/teachers that are not so good. Between resourse room teachers who are disrespectful, condescending and rude, when engaging with students OR teachers who have flat out told students that they would rather be somewhere else and that teaching wasnt really what they wanted to do.... it makes for a pretty iffy environment for kids. There are teachers who, in my opinion, show a lack of respect for parents and essentially aid in tearing down the importance of parents and their roles in their child's life, by referring to them as nothing more than "tax payers" or the child's "adult" I have been told on numerous occasions, that teachers spend a lot of time sitting at their desks, on their phones, rather than doing their job. When students ask for help, some teachers repeatedly tell them to "watch a video" OR they become visibly irritated that they have to actually teach! I Unfortunately have had to deal with teachers who refuse to respond when a concern or question is presented to them. Stories by staff have been altered or sugar-coated or down right left out, in hopes of making themselves look better or give the false notion that the teacher did nothing wrong. The school claims to want to help kids learn self accountability yet some staff members are incapable of doing this, themselves. It makes it hard to trust the school and some staff and creates a very stressful environment for both kids and parents. It's dissapointing, to say the least.