4084 Church Point Rd
Virginia Beach, VA 23455

My child is no longer a student there, and I felt the need to review, bc administrators do not listen. This is an old school school. There are teachers who try to use fun and engaging lessons to teach their students, but much of the work they give is busy work and serves no purpose other than to have a grade to put in the gradebook.The teachers are vastly inconsistent from class to class, and some make little sense at all as to how they grade work. Administrators haven’t seemed to care and have let the teachers do as they please. The only kids who are paid attention to are the athletes or the behavior problems. If your child is a well behaved, good kid, they’ll barely know your child’s name, or if they do, there’s very little to show for it. Communication from teachers is extremely lacking. The outliers for this are the Spanish teachers, who do a great job with communicating with parents. Otherwise, they do not reach out, and do not like it when parents contact them, and take it out on the kids. They are always right, no matter how wrong they are (like telling a student that they are weak or can’t do the work). The school has top ratings bc it pulls from schools that are affluent and have privileges that many schools do not. They have the highest number of gifted students next to ODS, the magnet school. It isn’t the worst school, but it could be so much better, if they saw that some of their practices are outdated by decades. As for special needs or any needs that need to be addressed, it is a fight to get the kids what they need. Twice exceptional students will struggle to receive services in advanced classes, as they do not service those classes. If requests are made with classes and schedules, they WILL NOT make changes, no matter how negatively the schedule or classes will affect the student. They can do better, but they don’t want to. If they could get past test scores and rankings, the whole school would benefit.

We love our school! We’re sad to be leaving it.

do not send your children of color here. They only defend the children who are white and parents who have money and are boosters. They find excuses for the white children and because of their parents money do not receive the back end of their actions. They choose to represent their school by not addressing the bullying and harassment brought on by their rich white students. they prioritize their rich white students over anyone else. they only care about the safety of the rich white prominent families even if their children and the bullies and aggressors. they do not handle black/Latino children the way they handle the white students and that's just horrendous behavior. i do not recommend this school at all. my child is new to the school, and we are not super rich and their actions show they do not care about low income or other races in this school.