7034 S Ferndale Way #EXWAZD
Meridian, ID 83642

My son has loved his teachers at this school and is learning so much, that is not the issue. Some of these teachers though are outright disrespectful. They are on a huge power trip.

Spalding elementary was one of the biggest mistakes we made as parents sending our children here. They say they are a STEM school however over the course of the year my son did two stem assignments ( one was once a week for a couple weeks) When he asked why they don’t do more stem, he was told that was for the older children. Come to find out the older children for fourth and fifth graders also did not do much STEM. They are advertising the last week of STEM activities, they will do more STEM in the last week of school than they have done the entire year combined. If you were choosing Spalding elementary because it is a stem school, I would recommend finding a different school. Not only was it not a stem school as it was advertised and we believed, but there were major issues with the school itself. My child’s teacher has also told the students several times to “not snitch” about things that happen. This has been said so many times that my child has said they don’t want to tell me things because the teacher says “don’t snitch”. This is the worst thing to teach a child. We should encourage them to tell an adult if teacher if something makes them uncomfortable, hurts or if something bad happened. This is inexcusable. There were also instances where my child was physically hurt by another child. We noticed it when he had large scratch marks and bruises on him. At no point during the day was I called or notified by the teacher. When we called the teacher, we were told that she said she did everything she thought was right, and that she had taken care of it during the day but again my child was physically injured and assaulted by another student and no call was made. The parent should at least be notified of the situation, this happened on at least two occurrences.My child also told me that a student got a bloody lip during class with that same sub. The teacher would not allow the child to go to the nurse and actually got mad at them for bleeding. Told them to take care of it themselves. Not only should this not be a school of choice for West Ada it should not be a school choice for any parent. I would not recommend sending any child here at all.

My grandson has autism and an iep. His experience there was horrible. I ended up pulling him out of school two weeks early. He was constantly being put in in school suspension when other kids started problems with him but no other students were being held accountable. The special education teacher shakes the students desks, uses foul language, shakes their desks, smacks students hands just to name a few. I have brought this to their attention multiple times and nothing was ever done. Other kids have hit him and no punishments were done to those kids. Another student stomped on his packback and broke his computer. Instead of having his parents pay repair fees they just said it was an accident. Nothing happened to the student that broke it. Completely unfair. I felt he was being targeted constantly.

I like the school it's not that bad everyone is nice if your nice to them

My child was mistreated and bullied at this school. His teacher ruined his kindergarten experience by being negative and treating him poorly from the 2nd day of school. The principal has no regard of anyones feelings and after attempts to try to meet with her to fix the issues, we were told it was the teachers choice on what to do. We ended up pulling him out 3 months into school because he cried and begged not to go to school. He has always liked school before going here. The teachers do not use positive reinforcement. Other kids have been told they are bad. The safe school assistant does not even allow kids to talk at lunch and she thinks having a 5 year old sign a contract about recess rules is how to help them learn. What kids need is to be encouraged to make great choices and to be praised for making good choices.My son is at a different school in West Ada now and it is night and day how he is thriving and how the school staff is so positive or friendly.