Taylor Junior High School

I must say that the drop off feels very unsafe to be having elementary kids. Staff does their best to address this, but it still doesn't remove my fear fro my Kindergartner. Unfortunately my kid hates school now and has had many issues making friends and opening up about her days in school. Her teacher does do her best but i feel maybe she has too many kids assigned to her for a kindergartner teacher. They do address my daughters second language barrier and she has been able to overcome it and catch up with her class. The environment does not feel great for my kid either. Only some of the playgrounds have shade.

A certain un-named math teacher constantly yells at students and discriminates against students of color. My husband and I met with the principal about our concerns and they were ignored. We are pulling our children asap.

This school is one of the best schools I've ever encountered within me this Mesa School district. The front office staff to the principal and the amazing amazing wonderful loving caring teachers have gone above and beyond for multiple families over multiple years doing what they can to help the few students are successful in any way shape and form They take their time to really make sure that those children are learning what they need to learn and they're not going to become just another statistic.

The new principal Mr Omar tabb is all over the place and the office staff is even worse. They ask for family court orders if applicable but they do not follow them. They will allow anyone to pick up your child when school is out. The front office staff will hang up on you for any and every reason. They are unsafe when it comes to the end of day. There have been multiple times when my child does not come home from the bus and the school can not tell me where she is. When calling they hang up and do not care who took my child.

Lack of care for students by far, even compared to schools in Phoenix. If you have the option of sending your child to another school, do it. There is far better elementary schools than Porter.