12935 SW 81st Ave
Pinecrest, FL 33156

Howard Drive Elementary is an outstanding school with a caring and dedicated staff that truly puts students first. The teachers and administration work hard to create a safe, welcoming, and engaging learning environment where every child feels supported and encouraged to succeed.The school offers strong academic programs, wonderful extracurricular activities, and meaningful opportunities for students to grow socially and emotionally. Communication with families is excellent, and the sense of community throughout the school is truly special.Howard Drive Elementary goes above and beyond to celebrate student achievements and foster a positive school culture. It is clear that the staff is passionate about education and committed to helping every student reach their full potential. We are proud to be part of the Howard Drive Elementary family!

Teachers don't make an effort to communicate with parents. The grading system is a disaster. Sometimes homework and assignments are not graded. Some teachers don't grade assignments and exams until the end of the marking period, therefore most parents don't know what's going on until it's too late. The principal doesn't have much influence on the teachers.

Honestly, the school isn't awful, but they enforce punishments very unequally. For example, the dress code. We have no uniform, but we have a dress code. The assistant principals only enforce the dress code on girls, and even then results vary. My friend and I wore the exact same thing one day: a thick-strapped tank top with long pants. Tank tops are technically not in the dress code, but that is rarely enforced. My friend and I walked into the school and without warning one of the assistant principals started yelling at me and issued me a detention. I was standing next to somebody wearing the exact same thing as me, and he did not care. Four girls wearing significantly less walked by in the amount of time it took for the detention to be issued. I was in my last year of high school and it was the first detention I had been issued EVER.The teachers at this school are incredible, especially the AP ones, they teach concepts that are difficult in an intuitive way that makes them easy to understand. Unfortunately, the environment of the school is ruined by a handful of assistant principals who have nothing better to do than unequally enforce a dress code which is probably older than them. Instant detention for a shoulder peeking out is extreme.