128 E Anchor St
Junction City, KS 66441

The middle school is by far better than the high school. The staff in the office is on top of issues and investigating incidents. The the teachers for the most part do well at making sure that the students understand and so do the parents. But there are a few that seem to go to work to get paid. They don't put in extra effort to make sure students understand. They tend to write off some students. They don't take in consideration different learning capabilities in students and go to fast dump too much information in a small period of time with no breaks to reflect.

My son has voice that he is overwhelmed in classes because the students are allowed and not on track and the teachers not doing much about it so it's hard for him to concentrate. So when he brought it up to the staff in the office they didn't do much to accommodate for him. They agreed about some diagnosis but didn't offer extra services even though it's evident that he is struggling in class. The food is God awful. It's always the same things on repeat. It's all processed and has tons of ingredients you can't pronounce which isn't good for you. Only thing decent is the fresh fruits and vegetables. which even those sometime are looking rough and rotten. There's kids always being loud in the Halls where they're not supposed to be during class. The hall monitors sit in the Halls on their phones instead of redirecting the students to do what they're supposed to be doing during class time when they're in the Halls. Teachers, staf,f and hall monitors do not enforce the rules of no phones during passing period or when they have a pass to go to the bathroom. They limit the amount of times a student can go to the bathroom. Which is ridiculous for females. The janitorial services do the bare minimum to keep the school clean and disinfected. The superintendent and the districts priorities are out of order. It's more important to build big flashy schools then to put money in the elementary schools. so that they have kitchens in order to prepare meals without it being delivered to them in hot boxes. God only knows how long the food sits in these hot boxes before they're served to the students. I've had several of my kids complain about burnt food, cold food, and moldy food. I thought they were over exaggerating until I worked in the school cafeteria myself and witnessed it myself and was Disturbed. There's no focus nor do they think of the importance in nutrition and serving sizes for the kids. They serve the middle school students the same amount of food as they serve the elementary students. Then they only give a tiny bit more for the high school students. The high school doesn't have a lot of opportunities for parent involvement.

I've had kids go there with the old principal and with the new principal. The new principal by far is wonderful. She interacts with all of the kids. It being such a small school makes it possible for all staff to know all kids in all grades not just who's in their class. I think the school is doing fantastic things especially for the kids who don't do well in big group settings. I did have some concern with the fifth grade teacher a couple of years ago. She didn't seem to address conflicts accurately between students and her class. My daughter told me that this teacher would tell students that they had body odor. My special needs son loves it there and is always happy and excited to go. As far as the special needs program my opinion isn't based on the school individually because those staff members go to all of the schools. But the whole process of evaluating and getting these extra services for these kids that need it is too lengthy. Also the the process and evaluating for the gifted program seems too particular. My oldest tested two times but didn't qualify because his maturity level was low even though he tested amazing in the academic parts. I assumed that the gifted program was for gifted children not well-behaved mature children. I feel like my son didn't benefit to everything that should have been offered to him based on his comprehension in the subjects I'm those grade levels.