1300A Bruce St
Richmond, VA 23224

Current student here, this place is a horrid place to send your child. First of all, four of my teachers have left due to the conditions at the school. These conditions are terrible, and here's why:1: The leadership is terrible, principal, and especially the assistant principal love to boss around the students for no reason. The assistant principal will randomly stop kids from leaving the school when it's time to leave for absolutely no reason. Another time was when he yelled at everyone in the lunch room to be quiet, called on one random kid who wasn't doing anything wrong, and ordered him to sit at a different table away from his friend. This is clearly a horrible overstep of their power.2: The school building itself is genuinley falling apart, there are floor tiles that are completely broken, the roof is sometimes leaking, bugs have infested classrooms on multible occasions, there is a notorious rat infestation, and on top of that, the bathrooms almost never work. There are tons of sinks that are broken, 50% of the time the soap is not even there, and they know this because we have told the people at the office about this, yet they decide to do absolutely nothing.3: The excuse they give when we ask them if they can fix up the school is "oh, we don't have any money." They very obviously do though, however. They bought over 400+ Yondr Pouches (Pouches designed to keep our phones locked up during the school day) and we calculated that all 400+ Yondr Pouches are worth over 10K. The Yondr Pouches themselves are a bad idea, but I don't want to go offtopic in this.4: The school is very unsafe, as there are usually multible fights per week, students are jumped regularly (I've heard about a student being jumped twice in the time span of a month.) The measures they have put in place are inadequate to combat this issue. It is better than it was last year, but it's still an extreme issue. 5: Most of the teachers are great people, and a lot of them try very hard to teach us, but there are some that barely try, or even make it harder to learn in the classroom. One of the teachers litteraly just assigns us stuff that we have barely been taught about while watching instagram reels in the corner, one of them threatened to decapitate a kid a few years back, and one that we currently have calls the school security team on kids for the smallest reasons.In short, do NOT send your kid to this school. You will regret it, I have barely learned anything.

My child is in fourth grade and still is behind on reading and writing. Teachers would rather complain too me rather than do the program step by step one on one with my son to make sure he is getting the attention and help he needs in class. My child has adhd a written letter by my childs doctor on file and somehow they have no idea or awareness of my childs disorder? They are very neglectful about my childs education and progress and yet alone the program my child is under and only giving a damn about up to par students in class.. they would rather watch my child fail then help because its so hard for a teacher to take their time on a subject before moving on leaving my child confused . Then to too top it off making fun of and humiliating my child infront of fellow classmates. Seems too me theres no profession in that area for students that have disabilities and disorders. If they cared about their students academic success and progression why is my child soo behind like this? Im angry that a principal cant even return a call so we can discuss things properly but would rather get ahold of my childs teacher to contact me ? Thats just so bizarre and avoidant of them. I feel like im being gaslit by a school that knows they’re failing my child. I didnt ask my childs teacher to be involved, I asked for the principal directly.

Many say it's a bad school but it's up to you if you want to learn you just need to pay attention I graduated from this school and the teachers I have nothing to talk about you they were very attentive we have learning needs