601 James St #112
Rossville, GA 30741

This is my son's second year at Rossville. If I could rate the sense of community & family engagement separately, I would give this school 5 stars. The staff is warm & inviting - they have fun extracurricular activities, events & volunteer opportunities. The PTO is phenomenal. However, the academics are severely lacking. My son is in 1st grade & doing math equations with a number line - he mastered this in private pre-K and does multiplication tables at home. We were fortunate last year, my son's kindergarten teacher recognized he needed more than the standard curriculum & she ensured he had extra assignments that challenged him. This year, no such luck, the teacher does the bare minimum. Speaking to his 1st grade teacher to address our concerns, has yielded no change. We met with the Baltimore County head of advanced academics & learned most lesson plans have material included for advanced students readily available for teachers to access - our Rossville 1st grade teacher has not made any effort to include this material for our son or the other kids who could use more challenging work to meet their abilities. We also learned we could have him advanced to a higher grade level for math, or have him advance the entire grade, so that he gets more advanced instruction. No mention of this by the school staff at all, that we have these options available to us. My son scored in the top 1% on all standardized testing, for two consecutive years & nothing is being done in the classroom to challenge him. What is the point of these tests if the school does nothing with the data to identify & support bright kids as much as kids who are struggling? GT programming doesn't start until 3rd grade, are the bright kids to stand still or regress until then? We are right on the district line between Perry Hall & Nottingham - when our home was redistricted to this school, we thought the new school would mean better resources & academic opportunity. What a disappointment! This academic school year has been a complete waste of time. We're moving mid-year to a better rated school district, far from district lines, rather than deal with the subpar academic focus at Rossville any longer.

Bathrooms smell like fish, and raw sewage, along with stale roaches. Ridgeland is not a safe or healthy school I will not be putting my children through Ridgeland High School. The principal is not understanding when you complain about the bathroom stalls not having doors and smelling bad, nothing is ever done about the issue. Along with this, there are many roaches running around the school. When the heaters start in the fall you can smell the burnt remains of mice.

Teachers are super mean and hateful and super mean to my parents I've hated the school and I would not recommend for your child.