2522 Temple St
Sarasota, FL 34239

The school had a bad support system and a lot of the teachers in the later grades were not the best with young children. I feel like they need new teachers to teach the kids, a lot of the time my brother and sister who both go their now dont like it im in high school and they somehow have more homework than me and the work seems off. The one in 4th grade who can very well read and write is still getting taught the abcs , and my sister in 5th grade doesn’t know what division is she said none of her teachers have mentioned it in lessons or problems involving it, so I asked her what she did in class and she said that they were learning double digit addition, which she had already learned since 2nd grade. There are soooo many more red flags that come from this school. The worst one was that when we tried to get a 504 in place to help my brother with severe autism they said he “didn’t qualify” and did not provide any reason as to why. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE If you are a parent reading this do not put your kid or kids in this school.

i loved this place so much omg i miss it

I had been a sub here for a few years. We see the inside of schools in all their totality: admin, teachers and the all-encompassing variety of subjects and students taught. We also see morale. In this latter respect, this school seemed okay despite a lack of equity. In view of subjects, however, the strongest departments were math and science. Civics, social studies and history were also good. Other than this, I found the following. This school lacked inspiration and giftedness, Art was flagging, and language arts were terrible. ESE and Spanish students were often left without aides and the ESOL department there failed to give their students a sense of acculturation. This latter department seemed like just a gateway for immigrants and the head teacher was unpleasant to work with, therefore making you wonder about this school's claim to give sheltered English.Other than this, I didn't find many students willing to learn and their ISR department was often filled. Support had to be called often in classes. Admin seemed to turn a blind eye, or rather took the students' side, (as most SCSD assistant principles and principles do).. There was also a lot of disrespect to teachers, which made this an unpleasant school to work at. This, in effect, was probably why I found jobs here so often.In the end I felt admin just couldn't run the show and I felt a real disconnect with the assistant principle and admin staff. I actually made a complaint about this department to the Equity Department and must say, there really isn't a sense of equity for teachers and possibly even students, when it comes to teaching and learning at this school..