2301 Patrick Ave
Old Hickory, TN 37138

We have had a tremendous experience at DuPont Elementary! The teachers and staff are always willing to go the extra mile to support and grow the students. The school is a warm and welcoming environment where you see and feel the love that the teachers have for all of their students. The teachers are always very good about communicating and they have even randomly called to me to praise my child! In my previous experience, some schools only call when your child is in a trouble or there's a problem. It is such a good feeling to hear that my child is doing well and the teacher noticed. Just like every school, there has been a couple incidents of a conflict that have happened between my child and another student, but the teachers and principal have always responded quickly and been proactive with their plans to support students. The PTO is strong and active, and I love that parents are welcomed into the building to eat lunch with their child, help teachers with copies, and even treat the teachers and staff with a little snack or drink. We love this school and neighborhood very much and wish that the school didn't stop after 5th grade!

I was a student at this school and I have to say it was one of the most stressful situations I have been in in my life. Constant bullying and harassment not helped by the fact the bullies would often be buddy buddy with the teachers. The constant state of panic when you'd do any thing even as little as dropping a pencil the bullying was intense. It wouldn't even be that bad if it wasn't for thr extreme racism that came with it, kid saying hale Hitler and doing the Salut in class as well as saying the same racist jokes over and over agian the colorism it was a LOT. There was also lots of homophobia if you were gay you were immediately seen as weird unless you were a "cool gay"( this is actually something somebody said). I had a girlfriend while I was at this school and the would call us slurs as well as sexualizing us and openly fantasizing abt our body's. You'd be afraid of telling this to the adults because a lot of them knew about the bullying but ignored it and some joined in. Not to mention the nicotine selling and the ableism. There was also an incident were a kid got his nudes leaked and the whole school saw them and they were shared around openly. As well as the 8th graders preying on the 6th graders.All around this school is just the worst and I would never recommend you send your kid here if you cared about there well being.

As someone that has graduated from this School, I have learned more in my 2 years out in the field than I have learned in the 4 years being in this school. I had good teachers every year, but for every good teacher I had, there were 3-4 bad teachers. The people that actually run the school care more about attendance so they can collect their paychecks, than actually caring about the students situations.