335 E Las Olas Blvd
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33301

Top schools out there, the teaching for my kid is just beautiful he came home with a high 4. I recommend this school.

I'm a parent of a Walker Wildcat, and I volunteer in the school's Media Center, and we love this school. The teachers and staff are involved, and the school is one of First Lady Michelle Obama's Turnaround Arts Schools. The Magnet program offers a wonderful, FREE (because it's public school) performing arts program that my child looks forward to every day. The school is in a poor area, so we don't get much in the way of property taxes, but everyone is dedicated and working toward improvement. Instead of looking at a "1" rating and looking elsewhere, I'd encourage parents to come be part of the solution and help make Walker the best school in Broward County. For what it's worth, we researched other schools nearby, too. One in particular, a top-performing school in the area, also has a lot of rich, privileged students, and boy, the ones in my kid's after school martial arts class sure were entitled little people. Not exactly the peer group we were looking for, despite its high Great Schools rating.

This school is so performative I swear. They act like they provide good resources and good support but they don’t. Many of my teachers give too much pressure/work and others don’t even help students in need. These counselors who are supposed to support kids struggling with grades and assignments don’t even help with them all they do is say “just talk to your teachers” and “do your assignments” like they don’t already know that. Those students came for actual support not just more of what they already did. They have so much high expectations for grades, gpa and academic performance. I’m not saying this isn’t supposed to happen but it’s so pressurized and it makes students stressed out so much. They need to lower their expectations and realize not every student is going to be studying all the time and passing. I guarantee they don’t take mental health seriously either seeing how careless they let these students overwork and stress.