3545 Thomas St
Jacksonville, FL 32254

It's really a heartbreak to send your kid to this place -- this is what we experienced in the one year we attended: numerous fights; bathrooms often closed; movement in the building so restricted during lunch that some kids couldn't really always get lunch; security guards made kids shake out their binders onto the floor in the hallway; an English teacher showed a highly inaccurate movie inspired by Beowulf instead of having kids read it (and the teacher oblivious that the film is way off); another teacher told kids that hurricanes in the Americas are created by the souls of enslaved people; my son would send me cell phone videos during class of multiple students just sleeping on their desks while the teacher was doing nothing. This place extinguished my son's interest in school. The name is being changed (which is great), but I hope the rest of the place can be improved for the general students. At the open house, all the principal talked about were the special tracks like early high school and the engineering program, which might not be so bad -- but what about the majority of the kids? We discovered that few of the more appealing course offerings were actually available.

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This school has gone through a tremendous transformation. My student always comes home with something that she is working towards whether or not that is the FSA Sticker Sheets, this school even had a homework march madness event. The admin and teachers go above and beyond for their students and are always communicating through DOJO and very helpful. I feel blessed to have such a supportive school behind my child to help her get into a college preparatory middle school. Pinedale is an amazing place to send your kids and I am blessed to have my child grow so much academically and behaviorally from the support of this school.