Ashcroft Plan in Lynwood Station by Richmond American Homes
Mount Juliet, TN 37122

This school doesn’t exist to educate, it exists to field football and basketball teams. Everything else is just noise they tolerate so they can keep the lights on and the government reimbursement checks flowing. Students aren’t treated like learners; they’re treated like attendance statistics. As long as bodies are in seats and eligibility boxes are checked, the administration couldn’t care less what actually happens in the classroom.Academics are clearly an afterthought. If you’re not wearing a jersey or contributing to the win-loss column, you’re invisible. Resources, attention, and praise are funneled almost exclusively to athletics, while actual education limps along on autopilot. Teachers who try to do more are boxed in by an administration that values compliance over competence and optics over outcomes.The overall level of professionalism and intellectual leadership is frankly embarrassing. Decision-making is shallow, communication is poor, and critical thinking appears to be in short supply across the board. Problems are ignored until they become unavoidable, then handled with the bare minimum effort required to make them go away.If you’re looking for a place that prioritizes learning, curiosity, and student growth, look elsewhere. This school is a sports program with a building attached, one that seems far more interested in revenue, attendance counts, and trophies than in actually educating the kids it claims to serve.

My experience at this school was negative. Teachers failed effectively communicate with students and parents. Teachers also didn’t create a good relationships with the students and didn’t encourage them academically. Teachers have absolutely NO control over students resulting in disrespectful, immature, and to say the least, unacceptable behaviors from students at the school. It was an extremely toxic environment to kids and essentially destroyed the wellbeing of many children’s mental health. Although there were good things about this school, unfortunately the cons outweigh the pros. This school failed my family countless times and we had to make the decision to remove ourselves from the West Wilson community after only one year. To the say the least I was highly disappointed in the school and wouldn’t recommend this school to any parents. We are countlessly failing our children and teaching them that what they are experiencing at school is the reality of the real world, it isn’t. West Wilson has ruined any innocence left in the kids.

Great engagement from principal and assistant principal. Support staff in office and School nurse are friendly and helpful. A lot of teacher turnover after Covid which has settled. Some growing pains getting IEP started. But smooth sailing once every thing was in place. Timely in scheduling IEP meetings. Staff actually adheres to IEP. Exceptional education staff is top notch. Majority of teachers are engaging as well. For example your child is not in their class but they know the child’s name. They hold after school evening activities every 1-2 months- book fair,international festival,career night etc. But I have heard parents request more parties, parent invites to parties. Etc It is a title one school- I don’t have a problem with that. The families are engaged. It is a reward school as well- based on testing.