10430 Patterson Street S
Tacoma, WA 98444

James Sales Elementary has been used for all of my children. All of them have been stunted in their academic growth because they have not been able to work at the pace they need to. They have to wait for other students to finish the pages and are called out for working ahead. At least they're not causing trouble! Geesh! Let them be productive and grow. I'd homeschool them if I could because this is ridiculous. Being told you can get an education doesn't mean that everyone has to have the same education.

No recomiendo para nada esta escuela es lo peor que existe , mi menor hija fue atacada por una estudiante y fue todo premeditado todos estaban grabando la agresion y nadie hizo nada , y hace unos días otra vez la atacaron a mi menor hija y nadie hace nada por ello los seguridad están de adorno , piensen bien antes de meter a sus hijos a esta escuela .

My experience at WHS was just unfulfilling. Aside from a few English teachers who actually taught their curriculum with high-school level difficulty, most other classes felt like a joke: it was if I was back in middle school. Ninety nine percent of the "courses" didn't even use textbooks, instead, relying on short and concise "homework" packets. That does not prepare your for success in college, which many students in WHS don't seem to be aiming for anyways. The worst part about it is the downright lack of an academic culture: most students could care little about their ambitions or grades. The classmates I was burdened with during my time at WHS only cared about three things: sexual relationships, social media, and celebrities. Lets not even mention how down right moronic the majority of the students are. In my history class, for example, I once witnessed a peer coming to realization that that submarines were real and not just Hollywood fiction. It was as if for the first time, they had actually shed the slightest effort to "think". Don't even try using the excuse," But the students are low income. They struggle with ordeals outside of school. That's why they are unmotivated." During my time at WHS, I was living in a small, cramped apartment, having to withhold the yelling and abuse of my parents as they wondered how they were going to pay of rent. I too was a low-income student, one who witnessed the nature of drugs first hands with their ability to attract, consume, and break down a person. I was seriously considering the possibility joining a criminal affiliation to pay off the insane rent here in Washington state. Yet, I was motivated enough to pass the already laughably easy classes here: the students at WHS are not disadvantaged- their just something else entirely. Overall, I'm glad I did Running Start at TCC and escaped this mess of a school. The transition from this pile of junk to an actual institution was the hardest of my life, yet the most necessary. I hope WHS has improved with time: Its sad to see low income student get stuck with the only local high school and not receive the education they deserve. I too was once burdened like them, and if it wasn't for Running Start, I would not have succeeded in my Post-Secondary ambitions.