Fairfield

overall this school is great because safey is good everything is good about this school

This school was the worst experience that could have ever happened to my family. I had my kids enrolled for first grade and had to remove them after 5 weeks. One of the teachers treated my son so badly he stopped speaking, two years of speech therapy down the drain, it was so bad he wouldn't even ask to use the facilities and came home wet and soiled with no explanation form the people handing him off to me whatsoever. When I confronted to school board and asked to have them moved to the school they would be in for middle school anyway (it did both elementary and middle) they told me to just keep sending him and they'd "figure it out". No thank you. He was so scared to go there that he was screaming and fighting me to get dressed. He clearly wasn't safe there and I wasn't sending him back. I later learned after having washed my hands of the whole school parish that she hit him. No ma'am. Caddo is a joke. I regret not keeping them in Bossier so badly. Two years later I still can't take him by a school without him having a complete breakdown.

Eighty-First Street ECE Early Childhood Center is a unique magnet public school located in Caddo Parish that serves a diversity of preschool to kindergarten students in Shreveport, Louisiana. This is a great school for students who are intellectually strong, but may have struggles in the areas of reading, math and writing due to having a diagnosis of autism or other developmentally delayed conditions. This school also offers general education classes that provide a variety of instructional methods to develop students’ knowledge and capabilities. As the motto states, “We play with a Purpose.” Eighty-First Street ECE has an excellent, tenured, diversely experienced principal named Mrs. Deborah Alexander. She leads a staff of highly qualified, caring professionals who strategically assess, place, teach and address the diverse needs of the student population while providing a rigorous, data driven curriculum, wherein the goals of the Individualized Education Plan, or IEP, are systematically addressed, evaluated and reviewed. At Eighty-First Street ECE Center, the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, also known as PBIS, in addition to the Class Dojo application, are utilized to maintain a positive school climate and enhance the learning experience. As a certified, tenured veteran educator with a Master’s degree, I am thrilled to work in this haven of educational growth where both students and adults have opportunities to advance towards their personal goals. It is a pleasure to observe the active involvement of students’ parents in the school’s activities. Many parents are previous students at 81st. Street ECE Center and they highly recommend this school to others. The school has 150 students in grades PreK to Kindergarten, with a student-teacher ratio of either 12-1 for special education classes and 20-1 for general education classes. After graduation, 100% of students from this school go on to attend a public or private K-12 school of their choice. Eighty-First Street ECE Center is a proud recipient of the Caddo Parish Public Schools Gains Campus Award for two consecutive years.