17313 NE US Highway 301
Waldo, FL 32694

Our family's experience has been a nightmare. This is our community. We love the people that live here and would never have believed what has gone on. Bullying purposefully not documented, medications never being administered or documented, and being told in a recent follow up meeting all of my student's IEP items were being continued, it is a great disappointment and loss of trust in some of the most important people in my child's life.

I was quite hesitant to enroll my child in school at Chester Shell Elementary. I will give both the negatives and positives in this review to be fair. Her first week was a huge shock! The Negatives: The class size was not 13 students to 1 teacher as it states on this page; it was 23 : 1. It is now in fact 25 to 1. By the first week she was seriously bullied on the bus and told by the bully he was going to get a gun and shoot her pet. This occurred just after the school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. I called the school immediately. The administration was swift to step in, address the bully and parents, and promised the bully would no longer be on the bus. The next morning, the bully was on the bus. The bully apologized, yet the bully rides every morning. Now for the Positives: My child loves her teacher, the administration, and adores her fellow students. She is engaged, challenged, and thriving academically. The bullying has stopped and she has the courage to ride the bus regardless of the threats she endured.