5000 Silverdene St
Raleigh, NC 27616

Going on three years now and am looking forward to sending my other two to DRES when they are old enough. My child has been learning a lot and excited about it. He has friends across the spectrum and every kid is treated with the respect they deserve. I say this as a parent and fairly frequent volunteer, the staff care and the kids are happy.

Honestly one of the worst schools in the county. Fights happen almost every week and what do they do to stop? Nothing absolutely nothing they only care about their reputation and no student’s safety or mental health!. I was harassed, followed and verbally assaulted in this school which i reported to the admins where they said they would talk to them and fix the issue i reported the issue two times before my parents had to get involved since they didnt help me the first time, Mind you i reported to them in february and they only decided to start placing rules and fixing the issue by the end of the school year which was June clearly very irresponsible and horrible at treating their students who clearly didnt feel safe. I felt horrible and unsafe by going to this school why? because they didnt help me at ALL when i was clearly by HARRASED but they did they care no! only cared when my parents got involved and helping at the end of year was no help could have helped when i reported not once but TWICE in february. So please this is a horrible school theres two good teachers in this school besides that horrible extremely horrible. Leting students get harrased and lets not count leting people who fought escape? crazy. Horrible school and horrible staff members only care about their school reputation but not the students. And they had the audacity to say i had absent issues..Who wouldnt ? when this school has fights every day, threats and lets not forget me getting harrased for MONTHS and they not doing anything but simply talking believing thats going to the fix issue? that’s honestly embarrassing horrible school.

Substituted at this school. About 4-5 kids in each period who do the work, and appear to belong in the grade level. The rest just ignore it and do nothing but play on their phones the entire time. At least half the kids have obviously been pushed through each year rather than being held back. Lots of debilitating behavioral issues. 60% of the kids legitimately seem functionally illiterate. Deeply depressing and upsetting. It’s in a new-ish neighborhood that seems nice, so not sure what’s up, either way whatever funding this school gets is money being set on fire.