348 Firenze Loop Lot 157 - Willow Oak
Myrtle Beach, SC 29579

Over the past several years, this school has definitely been moving in the wrong direction. Education of students, support of teachers, and improvement of the overall learning environment, have all taken a backseat to the pursuit of athletic achievement and the most current educational excellence theme of the year. Grades and class completion are subject to manipulation by administrators in order to artificially inflate graduation success.Teachers are passive, demoralized, and uninspired. Classroom management is nonexistent. Teachers teach from their desk and spend their time buried in their laptops. Students are frequently off task or asleep or on their phones. The school does not enforce the South Carolina Department of education’s cell phone, and personal electronic device policy.Administration is unresponsive and seems interested in only making the symptoms of problems go away rather than solving the problems themselves. Communication is terrible. There is zero transparency in the decision-making process. All decisions are made at the top, there is no distribution of authority, and teachers are not empowered to make decisions. Vandalism, disrespect and student fights are a regular occurrence on campus. Discipline is terrible. As a teacher, I would never recommend a parent send their child to this school.

This is a long-standing school that has taught thousands of children and prepared them for high school. There is a lot of tenure at the school. Metal detectors provide safety for children as they enter the building. It is very clean and the teachers seem to care. My only area of improvement would be doing more family oriented activities after school, where parents and children can meet other parents and children or have something fun to do.

I’ve been getting calls about my brother having issues with a teacher and when i tried to call they transferred me over to the 8th grade principal but i never got a call back. I called because one of the teachers there thinks it’s okay to target once certain group of children. She told me brother that he is now in jail, i have no clue what that means but sounds very disturbing that a teacher feels this way about one of her students.