Ridgemede

The learning atmosphere is very good, the teachers are serious and hard-working, and the competition among students makes their project exhibitions very exciting, just like professionals.

Horrible School with special needs students and relentless bullying that never gets addressed. The teachers YELL at the students when they loose their patience. They have no tolerance at all for kids with ADHD or Autism. They physically transport them to a room where they just ignore them and let them scream their head off or put them in holds (parents would get DCS called on them for if we did). They constently called me to come pick my son up because in their own words "we cant handle him" if I couldn't leave work or or school to do it they would threaten to call DCS on me for negligence. Constenly bribing him with candy and treats after I told them sugar makes him act out alot then questioning my parenting when hes acting out. Calling me to ask if he has takin his medication that day due to him being hyper. They expected his medication to turn him into a zombie robot. They told me if he wasn't on medication he would not be allowed at the school anymore. His medication caused him to not want to eat, it caused even worse anger issues and all kinds of problems with him, yet I was forced to give it to him for him to go to school!! Suspending a kindergartener due to eloping 12 times in ONE YEAR!!! In his IEP meetings I felt un heard. They would tell me what my child needs and not even take into consideration what I think is best for him. Completely shut me down on ideas. But they are the ones who can't ever handle him? My other son was relentlessly bullied for one reason or another. He was assaulted by an older kid on the bus and there was nothing done about it. They LOST both of my kids at one point and ended up sending one of them home on the bus when I told them I was picking him up that day. Teachers do not communicate with the parents at all and alot gets swept under the rug. My youngest son would come home with bruises and marks and I would have to hear from him that another student physicaly assulted him but never heard one word from a teacher about it. I had to go to the teacher myself!!! I ended up taking my kids oldest out after 2 years of this school and my youngest barley lasted 1 year. Last but NOT LEAST If your from a low income family they treat you like dirt and they dont care about your kids. Both of my kids grades and behavior have 100% improved so much after I took them out of this awful school!

Incredible administration and staff with a highly diverse student population.

This is a great school, teachers are very nice.

I came to study at this school all the way from Bangladesh, this school has changed my life and I would not change anything about my High School experience even if I could.

Our children have been at BMS for the past 6 years. We have been so happy with our experience at BMS. The teachers tend to stay at BMS for many years. We love the continuity of care where children stay with their teachers for 3 years in each of the age settings (early education, lower elem, upper elem). We also greatly appreciate the ways that they incorporate social-emotional learning into the curriculum. We also greatly prize the Our Whole Lives sexuality education curriculum, which provides age- and developmentally-appropriate information related to topics like bodies, puberty, and reproduction beginning in lower elementary (1st grade on up). Having been at BMS for many years now, we also love seeing how they scaffold skills and encourage increasing amounts of independents, incrementally over the years. There are also lots of opportunities for parents to get involved with the school, if they want to.