172 COURTNEY CHASE Drive
Saint Augustine, FL 32092

They hire anybody off the street to be a teacher. We have had to teach our kid most the math ourselves because the quality is that bad. The teacher is training to teach while they are already hired as a teacher. No I'm not kidding. You send an email asking a question to a teacher, you can count on it not being answered. My kid was bringing the wrong H.W book home for half the year and this teacher wasn't aware of it because she seems to not be checking the H.W or monitoring what children are bringing out the classroom.Headphones for our kid disappeared. She was sharing someone else's headphones. no communication from the teacher. we bought new headphones those disappeared too. Ask about it, no response. Kids always get sick, but not like in this school. they jam the kids so close you can count on a sick kid once a week. Teachers bringing whole families into class so you never know who your kid is around, and it also adds an extra vector of illnesses your kids can be exposed to in an already crammed environment.Unsafe social environment for kids too. If your kid is having social issues, you can count on the teachers not informing you or helping you resolve it. It's like pulling nails to find out what's going on with your kids. I had to literally ask a teacher to separate my kid from someone my kid has repeatedly told me makes inappropriate comments to her and didn't respect her boundaries. When i asked how my kid was doing socially i was assured she was doing good.Saint Johns county has had to rezone some kids because of how overwhelmed this school is with the influx of new students from silverleaf. in some ways this explains a lot of the problems, but then again they should have anticipated this and been prepared: after all they zoned 10k new residences years ago. Very bad leadership from all of Saint John's County, but especially this school which didn't rise to the challenge.Now kids whom were supposed to attend this school until Silverleaf's completion will have to be rezoned for 2 years, and wards creek itself sees a dip in its academics rating impacting both students and homeowners in the area.

I see fights all the time and my kids have been going there for 2 months and have taken roughly 120 tests and if you get below a 70% it will drop up your grade. Kids are so self centered and only care about them self and you have assigned sitting at lunch I do not recommend I have personal experience and and middle school is hard but this school makes it even harder to get through once I pulled my kids out and homeschooled they mentally got better and I could see a change in there behavior. I don’t recommend this school unless you have a special education kid

Honestly it’s just a school. If your can adhere to the rules and put effort into your classes you’ll do well here. it’s actually really easy to make friends, as in every classroom there is a diverse population of people (personality and race wise). and as for learning, i mean it’s school, we learn boring stuff all the time and we just gotta suck it up. the teachers will often give the class options on how to learn a required standard, which is nice. i haven’t met any teachers with an outdated way of teaching yet either. the AP and dual programs are amazing. Cafeteria food isn’t bad either (it’s not good but…it’s school so). they have good extracurricular programs(meaning they all have equal funding and there’s options to choose from too). NOW for mental health…if your child goes to the counselor and opens up about their bad mental health or personal struggles, don’t be shocked if cops pull up at your front door and backer act your kid (your kid will get sent to the psych ward by the cops, and you have to pay for it btw). and for IEP’s or 504 all teachers i’ve had so far have adhered by them pretty willingly, and i haven’t heard any bad stories regarding them either. but i guess we will see cause im going back in august with a service dog:////.