Virginia Village

I love Ellis Elementary and would strongly recommend. This is a terrific public school serving Pre-K through 5th grades including Head Start. It is geared towards fun and effective education and learning techniques in a supportive and safe environment for students, high quality teachers and leadership, supporting it's families and engaging with the community.

I am leaving this review of this school because I have had now 2 years to think about my experience here, I came too MSD in 7th grade because my family, brother and I wanted a better education from the public school system we were in. We came across MSD and saw it as a good option to finish middle school for me and a good start for my brother, however we were wrong. MSD preached having all opinions accepted however when my brother and I presented our traditionally conservative beliefs they were shot down and we were told we were wrong. When it came to Issues like Covid 19 Personally I was very restricted in terms of travel even though at this time it was 100% legal in this state to travel to said destination without having the Covid vaccine. Not only was your expression of belief not allowed but it was punished, I will not go into this in respect for the school. The academics were also not good, there were no advanced Classes you could take, everybody was taking the same basic level math English science and history, going more into history, the actual history is said in a liberal way that gave children a bad image of the people that built the world by exaggerating small flaws that they had and making them look like terrible people, George Washington having slaves for example. the teachers would not hold you accountable or record your grades even though Montessori school of Denver advertised preparing you for the adult life. There was absolutely no highschool preparation and no accountability. Montessori had absolutely no phiisical conditioning as the only athletic thing you had to do was play a game outside once every few weeks when you had PE they also taught you that winning doesn’t matter as there was no winners in said games, giving kids the idea that you shouldn’t be competitive and strive to be the best. What I will give this school is that for me personally it taught me to deal with people I didn’t like or agree with which is a valuable skill. Since leaving our family is so much better, my brother is at a new school and thriving like never before. I went back and finished middle school in our district and Had a stellar 8th grade year with a perfect GPA. Since leaving middle school I am now attending a prestigious boarding school and thriving with 2 varsity sports and near perfect grade. Sometimes all kids need to be successful is a new environment