Huffman Elementary School

Fantastic school with amazing staff. Students are well supported and feel special thanks to the staff. Teachers like being at this school and want to stay here. An active PTA raises a lot of money that is then invested in student success and in making the schools fun community. Staff provide many after school activities like maker’s space (crafts/STEM), art competitions, science fair, battle of the books, night at the museum (history projects) and sports (basketball, football, track, cross country, etc.). The French Immersion program and IGNITE (gifted class) offer extra learning opportunities above a typical neighborhood class instruction.

If your child is a person of color, RUN! There is systemic racism from principal, teachers and students. Filing a formal bullying report is a joke, the principal will blame your child for everything even after previously admitting your child was being bullied prior to the report. The schools version of handling hate speech is holding a "use nice words" assembly and brushing it under the rug. The principal allows teachers to not teach, just provide busy work. Also, if your child should be provided special ed services as documented in 504 plan and when parents bring up that services are not being provided, principal allows teacher to send an email to the 504 coordinator calling your child "lazy" and then allow the teacher to not even attend the scheduled 504 meeting plus when the principal shows up in the last 5 mins of the meeting, she plays on her phone the whole time. The school does not care about helping the students be successful and make it clear that if your kid isn't white, they dont want you there. The only positive is that the PTA does lots of enrichment events throughout the year.We had high hopes for Rabbit Creek based on reviews/reputation but after a year there, we RAN as far away from the school and refuse to send any of our kids to that school and I highly recommend you do the same.

A great school my kids were so happy to go here and now we move to bear valley and we miss the school great school.

We toured this school in February during a kindergarten event and the principal showed us around. It's a nice school and seemed well cared for. The principal was very nice and answered all of our questions and concerns. Every teacher or staff member that I have interacted with have been kind and helpful.My daughter is going to kindergarten and her teacher Mrs. Eikenbary and TA Mrs. S. are amazing. My daughter loves seeing her teachers everyday and they care about their students. Even with classes being online so far they have taken the time to help my daughter whenever she needs it. We also love that we can still get library books every week!

We moved schools this year do to our move. Huge regret. The office staff at Bowman is rude and unprofessional, that is not a way of greeting a parent or a student especially being new to the school.Will update this review if things improve down the road, as of now definitely do not recommend this school

We have had 3 children attend PNA over the past 14 years, each of them very different personalities and learner types. We have been impressed with the ability of the school to create an exceptional experience for each of them, whether it's their social emotional learning, or keeping them challenged or building confidence in a subject. While it's a small school, my experience has shown that the kids who spend multiple years at PNA, truly leave with a love of learning and self confidence. Transitioning from a small middle school to public school in Anchorage is not an issue when you do so with a solid academic base, the expectation of engaging in what you are learning in a deep way, and the self confidence in yourself, all things cultivated at PNA. Our kids come home regularly telling us they had a great or amazing day!