104 Gershwin Dr
Houston, TX 77079

I have been to this school back in the year 2022-2025 and it was probably one of the worst memories that I had, I got bullied by not one, but two people or even a groups of girl who would try to convince me and her to do bad things. Not only does this happen, but it has rodent issues like bats that got into the school on lockdown and pest issues like bugs got into the school. The principal would treat me unfairly and would treat that mean person like she would listen to her and the principal would also don't care if I have a seasonal allergies and told me to go to the cafeteria, then I went to the library and it was so cold. Sometimes the staff would treat a victim to get it in trouble and the bully and fake friend got away with it. Most people were unaware that Memorial Middle School was a terrible school, not knowing that something bad was about to happen. Even the Gemini AI did not notice most bad things because they are now lost media and some bad things got into the internet like mold outbreak (2004) by Chron, Vaping issues (before 2023), and also infrastructure issues before the 2017 bond program. Memorial Middle School was probably one of the worst school in Spring Branch ISD to live in.

We wanted to provide a review for any new family ( not from Houston/ outside Memorial) considering this school for their children, specially for people of colour, or hailing from a different country. Our review is personal to our experience at the school and we appreciate may provide a different viewpoint than held by the majority of white families. We joined the school last year arriving as expats from another English speaking country, our child is brown of Asian heritage, was in third grade and was sadly bullied at the school. We raised a complaint but were told that meanness did not equate to bullying and the school assistant principal offered our son counseling at the school. We then learnt from other families of instances of bullying, specially from those of color, different religion. Some were too afraid to raise this publicly, but spoke of it in private. Many had no option to leave the school. We also had comments which we feel were racist made by a class teacher regarding black students our child was seen playing with being a “bad influence”on our child. This was a tipping point for us. We did not get invited to birthday parties, many families at the neighborhood pool would treat us as “invisible” and look past us. We were told by the school this was “normal”. My son was also bullied to give a gift to two boys “from a respectable” doctor family, who refused to invite him to their birthday thereafter. My younger daughter made only one friend, was questioned about her hair colour, was told to go away from a group of girls playing together and her only friend would never come over for play dates to our home. The school is very focused on testing results and lessons are raced through ending in a test. The GT classes are great but at Bendwood and many children we hear want to drop out of the GT program because of bullying/ rough playing at recess there. The school does little to educate its children to be inclusive, open minded or sympathetic. Foul language and hitting, video gaming, showing off about branded shoes seems to be the ethos here. We tried hard, knocked many doors and spoke to teachers. A few families in the neighborhood cared ( mind you also not native to Memorial) and we are thankful for their kindness. After a year we finally left the school for a private school this academic year. We hope this review sheds a light for anyone similarly placed as us, a professional, educated, brown immigrant family.

My experince at this highschool was horrible, the principals and teachers dont care about you they argue with you and are not understanding , the principals dont help with bullying and mental health the only people who care are the counsolrs .