1103 Jefferson St SE
Saint Albans, WV 25177

The experience with my son has really disheartened me. He is the 3rd generation to go through this grade school. The first sign of problems was in kindergarten when the school counselor insisted his heavy use of red while coloring was a problem. Over 4 years of issues such as these has almost crushed his natural desire to learn and has made him dread going to school. I can only hope this changes when he switches to the middle school.

I moved to the Saint Albans area wanting my child to go to Mckinley hearing great things about the staff. My daughter transferred there with low grades and struggling with 7th grade level work. She has ADHD and gets very frustrated when she doesnt understand the work. I thought Mckinley would be a great school to help my daughter and give her an education that even children with problems deserve, but i quickly found out that although the faculity was awesome and really tried to help my daughter, the administration was cold and very hateful when dealing with me and my daughter. They wrote me a letter not accepting her to their school next year and to go to her home school. This is really upsetting and hurtful. So i can tell you if her child has the slightest problems dont expect the administration to be caring and helpful even though the teachers were awsome. The students there are statistics to the administration and if your student will bring down their stats or testing scores, they will get rid of them if they can. I am very disappointed in Mckinley Middle School Administration. But if your kid doesn't have any problems or need extra help it is a great school.

The teachers really care about my child's success.