13804 Rock Ter
Centreville, VA 20120

Look, it’s an okay school, but some of the teachers… I’ve had TERRIBLE experiences with particularly math teachers. Here’s the thing, I genuinely enjoy math, but the terrible teachers I’ve had have made it living hell. Complete disregard for students when they struggle-for example. Student asks a question because they’re confused->teacher decides that the student is clearly stupid and cannot be helped, often responding along the lines of “well, just understand it then.” Not how it works guys. Many offer extra time outside of school for help, but most of them are just genuinely unhelpful. THIS IS NOT JUST ME. I know a plethora of students who have voiced this opinion, and it’s getting ridiculous. Especially because a couple of these teachers are apparently well liked and respected by other staff, yet all of the students agree that they are not good teachers. Weird, huh. Anyway, I promise I’m not trying to bash the school, it’s a pretty okay school otherwise, but some of the teachers are just not high quality.

This school can be described with one singular word: BORING. Everyday, us students wake up at 6 and some people wake up at 5, just to go to this jail hidden behind the name of school. This place is terrible. Fights every single day, teachers don’t care, the students are so rude, the atmosphere feels like a stormy rainy day, and the way the school is ran sucks too. The electives are not fun, the teachers have the most boring assignments ever, if you’re lucky you might get a teacher that does some fun things but that’s like finding a needle in a haystack. There are so many stupid presentations and teachers don’t understand how much some people with social anxiety hate presenting in front of everyone. The students are rude and will definitely judge you. Teachers that teach the special needs kids treat them like toddlers. The schedule sucks too, everyday I run across the school just to not be tardy. Another thing that is terrible is something called unity time lessons. It’s so boring and takes up my ENTIRE unity time.. The lessons have taught me nothing. The only thing good about this school is getting to see my friends. Everything else sucks. If any parents read this, if you can, PLEASE choose another middle school for your kids to attend.

We had a similar experience to one of the other reviewers. The school admin seems to cater only to the Korean immersion program kids. We had issues with the AAP teacher and most of the teachers seemed burned out ( there were a few that were good). The classes were larger and were slowed down. i know multiple people who pulled their kids from the school because services were not being offered. Teacher turnover was bad for us our 1 kid had 3 + different teachers in 1 year. Kids were not encouraged to work beyond the area of training or being challenged. My daughter was actually NOT allowed to get chapter books out of the library and they forced her to read simple 1 sentence books and when I asked the teacher about her being given reading at her current reading level I was told I could do that on my own but she would keep getting the early readers though she was reading even according to their testing at a 3rd grade level in Kinder--just let her have the book! Everything was underwhelming and for those that say "you can go to any Fairfax county school they're all good" there was a stark difference between the experiences and education provided at some of our friends schools vs Powell.