J. O. Combs Middle School

I get bullied constantly and nobody who works there does anything about it. Also, there are a lot of fights and in general the school isn’t safe.

don't recommend. every kid there makes fun of you. this school gave me depression. the teachers give u WAY too much work no matter if youre depressed or not.

Combs middle school made me depressed. dont go there.

this school is so bad the food is all cardboard and all of the teachers are rude and mean and are not god teachersthe vice princible cucks so much he is very rude.

Overall, I’d say this school is generally pretty mediocre from personal experience. I went to this school for 7/8th grade starting in 2020. Homework:As a mostly honors student, didn’t have any problems with homework for the most part, as the teachers I had usually assigned incomplete work as the only homework, which was enough.Teachers: Speaking of teachers, I definitely liked the vast majority. I can’t speak for everybody, but I can only recall 2 undesirable teachers and 1 long-term substitute. Most teachers (especially the fantastic music teacher, which unfortunately just moved to Crismon) were great with punishment, workload, help, and encouragement. However, one teacher I had seemed very “out of touch” if I had to describe it. Their co-teacher was good though. The other teacher ended up leaving in the middle of the year for one reason or another, but had a problem with workload. The substitutes were all better than the original teacher. Speaking of substitutes, the long-term one I noted previously had many issues. The same situation happened again (teacher retired) and we had a long-term substitute for the remainder of the year. Problem was, it was an honors math class and they had no certification. They were also generally unpleasant and commonly known as a “bad sub”. I didn’t have as many problems with them personally, but we were forced to complete a sort of online course. The course was horrible and the sub couldn’t help it. The vast majority of students should’ve failed, but were just given D grades at the end (including me).Music/fine arts:Overall, outstanding arts teachers. Never heard of any bad ones at the school. Personally, I was being taught by the art and band teachers. Both of them are the best I’ve ever seen in my life. Both incredibly kind and very experienced. They were both conscious of their students’ problems and treated them as young adults, as they should be. Unfortunately, as stated previously, the music teacher was recently replaced, so I cannot speak of them as of yet. One notable action from previous the band director was that they once worked nearly the entire day with appendicitis and came back as soon as they possibly could. They were legendary. However, the instruments are in complete disrepair. Many instruments were personally owned by the director and those that were not were either heavily damaged or didn’t work. No French horns were in any reasonable condition.Sports: Overall very good. Not much else to say.