Lot 24 #166
Bellevue, WA 98006

Just a toxic school with no support for students

I think the scores are high because the community has so many driven families doing extracurricular academics outside of school. Some teachers are really great. Hit or miss. Overall those teachers are underappreciated by the community. And unfortunately the community isn't very close and not well connected with each other. The advanced placement classes are a big disappointment because the testing isn't a good gauge of the smarter kids. More gauged to whoever prepares their child with the testing platform techniques. School itself is very test focused and child's worth wrapped in those scores. Many kids this young simply aren't good testers yet. I'd rather my child use all that revaluating time instead in engagement in mastering a topic they are learning. They did seem to be very supportive of kids that are behind and not getting a strong foundation at home. Good for a public school. Really wish it had a strong, supportive community.

I moved to another state, but previously attended this school. The students were awesome and I made a lot of friends. At first, there wasn't many fights, but when its getting close to summer, a lot of fights broke out. I've seen students fighting at each other, pulling each other's hair. I've also heard that kids were throwing rocks at each other. I've seen ambulance and police come to Tyee before. They also need to work on bullying... But other than that, the teachers and students were great!