3313 Light St
South Chesterfield, VA 23803

Ettrick Elementary School is such a blessing to our student and the entire community. Every staff member has a heart of gold with true compassion for the children in their care and the families they represent. The beautiful new building has a great design and was well thought out. Teachers at Ettrick are well equipped to meet the unique needs of every child and are models for the best classroom practices in Chesterfield County, VA. My son is receiving a 5-star education, social-emotional learning, pre-engineering STEAM lessons, as well as Music, Art, PE, and Library resources. He enjoys spending recess on any of the 3 new spectacular playgrounds or fenced in blacktop! We love our Ettrick family and are so thankful for everything this school continues to provide my son!!

My experience is overall negative. The majority of teachers are decent, although a portion of those are intolerable in their poor teaching methods. The student body is a pestulence the world will unfortunately have to face in the following years due to their intolerance of others, disrespect for authority, and disregard for other people that do not satisfy their pleasurable interests. Furthermore, the education at this school appears as if an afterthought; more emphasis is placed on athletics than on education and a similar sentiment is held by most students.

The teachers at Matoaca are fair. But all homework is done on chromebook, and most in-class instruction as well. Expect your child to have a lot of screen time if they attend this school, way above recommended levels. The teachers will not work with you on trying to reduce that amount, and will not count work that is done on paper. They will also lure you with Tribe time and ASE, that we were told would be study/homework time for the students. This is not true at all, the students will be given projects and assignments to complete in those classes as well, and will still come home with 2hrs of homework average per night. I wish that I had just enrolled my son in his zone school and just had him placed in accelerated classes. Only one experience with bullying this year, but the staff's response was to tell all the kids involved that they needed to befriend the bully or they would be the ones in trouble for leaving someone out. Terrible handling of the situation.