16550 Ruby Meadow Dr
Houston, TX 77095

This staff does not actually care about your child's education. They will let you down. We have a straight A student that is not being challenged academically, is member of choir, student government, you name it, they are in it. But guess what? My student is not in Gifted or Horizons, even though we have been pursuing it for the past three years. Want to know what happens? The staff tells you they don't know about the testing or how to sign up. No literature is sent home, no reminders in your child's folder. Nothing. Then you hear from your kid they saw testing was being done, and they weren't on the list. Annoyed, you call the school and they feign ignorance. Then, the second go around, they point to a tiny message in one thread from the principal on an app, that they use as justification for notification. So let's get this straight, they sent messages for star testing, dpms, quizzes, field trip reminders, but cannot be bothered to send any info about the gifted and horizons program. Calling the principal, and the counseloe does not help.This school clearly does not want children in that program. Parents, if you don't monitor your children's education very carefully, this school will take advantage, and do the bare minimum. We will be addressing this with the school board. If we get no relief there, we will most likely be removing and home schooling, while we engage with a lawyer to make this right, and to save our students from being targeted and unfairly treated.

My daughter is on her first year at Spillane Middle. Within the first week she forgot her badge, right away it’s a $1 fine. No grace period, no letting the kids get use to wearing a badge, you pay them or the kid gets punished. A couple weeks later she forgot her badge at her mother’s house witch is over 20 miles away. You have to pay $5 for a new one and can’t reuse the old one once the new one is active, so if it’s lost or forgot again, it’s $5 again. Kids get automatic detention for being tardy in the mornings due to things like fatal crashes on highway 290 blocking the way to school. My daughter was 5 minutes late for the first time in 11 weeks of school and was put into detention for being stuck behind a fatal crash that was in the news and as of now the school refuses to remove or correct it. You are better off waiting to do a late check in or let the kid miss the day so they don’t get detention. My daughter was sent home from school due to have a 100 degree fever, which is fine. The problem was it was the last week of the 9 weeks and she had test. She has not been given a grade for her Science DPM and took a couple of days for her LA/RDG test grade to update from an “F” that the school gave her to the “A” that she truly earned. My daughter is an honor student and it’s hard to work with the school, I can only image how hard it is for kids already having a hard time with school. Spillane policies are very much put all effort into fines and punishments and no effort into understanding the kids. The school really needs to rethink how hard they are on the students and relax on some of the small stuff.

The staff is always motivated and ready to help no matter the situation. Lots of school pride as well.