80th St E
Tacoma, WA 98443

Do not come to this terrible school you can't wear Halloween costumes but you're allowed to have a spirit theme where you dress up as a Tim Burton character but not allow Halloween costumes hopefully someone burns up this shcool because wth is wrong with it

My son started his 7th grade year at Lochburn Middle School. He was excited to attend after seeing the many options offered for electives, this was very short lived. By the end of first quarter my son had no work given to him in STEM tech, no projects because apparently the school had no funding. This left the students allowed to be on their phones all period. In gym, same issue, not enough equipment for everyone, they are allowed to go play on their phones the entire period. My son comes home every day frustrated with the lack of discipline. He tells me that children are allowed to curse, use racist/hateful speech, allowed to talk about doing unspeakable things to girls. He has approached multiple teachers to voice his concerns and explain how it makes him feel only to be dismissed. The administration is a joke. Have a problem? They won't respond to a call or email. When you try to talk to them at the school they are much too busy. There is ZERO communication between the teachers and the parents. They harass you to download parentsquare (an application used for communication) only to never use it properly. You won't know what your child's teachers emails are unless you demand them from their advisory teacher who is apparently the only one you should ever need to speak with. Testing is a threat. Telling any child "if you want to see your friends again here next year make sure you get good scores on the test" is appalling. The test is to fund their school, to measure their teaching capabilities, if the students do poorly the educators need to reflect on their own abilities! If the administration would actually follow through with the rules presented in their handbook maybe the kids would take school a little more seriously and you would find much happier educators! This school is appalling and if you look at the test scores and ratings of ALL Clover Park schools you find a pattern. While the schools struggle for funding their superintendent makes six figures for a failing district! I urge you to really research your children's schools before placing them in a district that will fail them.

I recently removed my son from Harrison prep due to some factors; One reason I moved my son out of this school is because the amount of bullying there is. I entered the classroom with my son, halfway through the class, I heard Multiple racial slurs towards me and my son. It was loud enough for the teacher to hear, Yet nothing was said to these students. The majority of students here are hispanic I would say. My son told me that the dis obedient students are best friends with admins so they always get out of trouble. My daughter that I also have moved from this school told me she would get bullied by 8th graders and 11th graders that were in a friend group together. My daughter told a teacher but yet nothing has been done about it. My daughter also told me that the bathrooms would smell like nicotine vapor and weed. I recommend not to bring your child to this school for their own safety.

My 2 kids at this school from kindergarten now one of them 3 grade the other one is in 2nd grade. Good education, good communicate with family / the principal always helps us with any problem’s/ people at the office all nice and friendly