8406 113th St E
Puyallup, WA 98373

While there are very beneficial classes for special needs students, there are below average, underneath decent academics, constant fights, and an inability to prevent unsafe behavior. Even simply from this semester, I happen to be a current seventh grader and other students have threatened to hurt me multiple times and I have seen even fellow classmates take drugs, smoke, and vape. I have known people around me who partake in sexual acts as 13, 14, and 15 with fellow schoolmates the same age. Fights and rumors of fights are constant, too. Instead of disciplining the students committing these acts, they rip on the other students to try and prevent them from becoming like misbehaving students (which is futile, must I announce). Students shout profanities at each other and the teachers and that isn't being talked about, yet students having a tardy or two gives them lunch detention, after-school detention, in-school suspension, and Saturday school? The most a student will receive for using e-cigarettes in the bathrooms is two days of ISS (in-school suspension). The school refuses to acknowledge students' well-beings, too. The principal herself will not care about students having anxiety attacks or other things affecting their ability to learn that is out of their control. A student has anxiety? They are written up and their phone, a safe place for that student, is taken. A student simply has a rumor going around? She physically searches the student's body and backpack. To conclude, Frank H. Ballou Junior High is not a good school because of lack of discipline, horrible student behavior, and an overall unsafe environment.

Rogers is the worst school in the whole wide world; if you are considering moving to the puyallup area, go to Emerald Ridge High School #thethirst

This is my first year at this school with my kindergartener. I've had continuous issues with bullying to the point where it has been physical multiple times yes the school messages me to let me know but states "unfortunately we can not tell you the consequences" I had my breaking point where my son got punched in the stomach and he told me crying that the people around them where telling them to hit him I immediately went to the school to speak with the office about what is going on and insisted it was important because my son is being bullied verbally and physically and they told me "sorry you need an appointment" "I don't have access to their calendar I'll take a message" no one has gotten back to me his teacher is trying to get an update for me but has nothing I have decided to pull him from the school.