47680 Silver Oaks Blvd
Mattawan, MI 49071

Many of the teachers are amazing and think outside the box. However, with more and more of our kids being diagnosed with ADHD and ASD, they Need to reevaluate how they plan on helping these children succeed, not only for the present, but the future.

For Van Buren County, this is one of the better schools. Having said that, they have some of the issues that the other county schools do: generational families who use the district as custodial, and apathy to any work or achievement beyond the state-required grade level. If your child is above grade level, they will most likely not be challenged, and will be mostly ignored academically as the majority of students struggle to make their state mandated achievement levels. The administration changed this past year, and has worked towards better procedures, but they are not even close to addressing the gap between the majority of students at or below level and the small minority above. They did not address these issues on a school wide level, and continue to teach to the middle. I am driving my children to Kalamazoo County next year.

The teachers care about their student's success and I felt prepared High School

I have had 5 children go through Paw Paw and all of them have been Paw Paw Proud. Our exchange students have loved their experience and opportunities at Paw Paw as well. Especially the performing arts program. Not a lot of foreign schools have performing arts programs.