409 Colleton Rd
Raleigh, NC 27610

I mean I guess it’s a fine school? They have a LOT of electives and the teachers are…fine? If you’re a kid/parent who wants a HELPFUL and SUPPORTIVE teacher it really depends on which one you get. Some are better than others. They have an AMAZING arts programs with good teachers (though if you’re interested in dance, good luck with that). One major problem is the bullying. If you’re a kid who is like DIFFERENT from others, whether it be queer or just interested in “weird” things, you’re screwed. Some kids are fine, but many are quite obnoxious and even violent at times. Really the only other problem is vaping/fighting. Fights happen pretty much every few weeks, and kids DO IN FACT go to the bathroom to vape or just scroll on their phones. If you’re thinking about sending your kid here, make sure to remind them to SAY NO TO DRUGS. Also make sure that they have a way to contact a parent if they are going bus because that gets screwed up a lot. Otherwise it’s not a bad school, it doesn’t really have any problems that you wouldn’t find at any other school. In fact, it is a great school if your kid is interested in arts or wants a lot of clubs/electives to choose from.

For the average kid who learns in typical ways, this school may be ok. If you need ANY kind of support or accommodation this school will fight you every step of the way.

Perhaps the instruction will improve in my child's senior year, but, thus far, the science instruction has been poor. My child's chemistry teacher, perhaps the one referenced in another review, states that the classroom is "flipped," which actually means that the students are instructed watching assigned videos at home. Supposedly, this is supposed to free the student for higher-level learning in school. What actually happens is that the students discuss problems in groups where, as beginning chemistry students, it is the blind leading the blind. My child has come home with completely incorrect answers because the majority of the group got the same (incorrect) answer, and the students had no other way of determining if the answer was correct. Utilizing AI as a "tutor" is tacitly encouraged in Chemistry, and the one teacher-generated quiz that has been given was obviously AI generated. (This has absolutely NOT been true for the humanities and social sciences teachers, so far.) Furthermore, the student is never allowed to bring the graded test or quiz home on the pretext that the tests will be kept, fraternity-style, for students next year to cheat. Besides the jaw-dropping fact that apparently the science teachers are incapable of coming up with more than on test's worth of questions on their own, this gives lie to the idea that students can actually improve their work. The student literally has no idea what they got wrong on a quiz or test, so they can't improve for next time. Unless your student is already several grades ahead in the sciences, I wouldn't recommend sending them to Enloe for core science classes, based on our experience. I am not sure if I regret sending my child to Enloe because many aspects of Enloe are very good or superior to other public or private schools. The science instruction, so far, is very, very bad.