Olive Peirce Middle School

Amazing staff! Amazing teachers! Your child will be cared for and educated so well here.

I see there are some negative reviews for OPMS, but people should know that the school district has addressed the issues. They have had staffing changes in the last few years & the atmosphere at the school has changed for the better. Students at OPMS get the benefit of attending a school that is safe & covers the educational basics that students need, plus some pretty cool extra things going on. They promote to the high school next door & typically enter high school well-prepared for moving forward.

Incompetent science department. Very bad science instruction. They really need to take what they have, flush it down the toilet and start over.

BAD SCHOOL. Grades are based on coloring and arts and crafts, not on knowledge. Middle school that is more suitable for entry into 1st grade than high school. No depth to anything. The bulk of the science teaching is simply copy the text exactly from a handout to a paper doll like flipbook. At least in eighth grade they do use a text book, albeit for the purpose of copying the pictures to the paper dolls. They are subsequently told to color them exactly as they are in the text. I guess I really don't know why this school district even wastes the money to buy textbooks. There are lots of good pictures on the web.I guess the take away is if you want your 7th or 8th grader to get real good at copying and coloring then this is the place for you. BTW, they are all stuck in their ways so no hope of getting them to change.Very very bad.

Very bad overall experience. Very strange educational style. Unfortunate it's the only show in town.