Sycamore Canyon Elementary School

A great school overall, this school groomed myself and child to become the educated adults we are today.

This school only cares about money, and how they can use you and your family to secure funding. I get more fundraising emails and requests for family flier night than anything else, and it drowns out everything important. They send home questionaires and cards requesting personal family information, but when a child needs actual aid in school they will not provide anything beyond school counselor visits (no in-class support) without paperwork from doctors allowing them to secure funding. Class sizes are way too big, and there is now allowance at all for very young kids who are too young to diagnose with behavioral disorders, but can't sit still in class. I atended this school in the mid 90's. It was a conservative nightmare then, and it has not changed much since then other than the traffic on Pike, which is one of the worst cases of traffic management I think I've ever witnessed. The "Safety Patrol" is an absolute joke, and I have had to physically grab my 5 year old child walking from our car to class to avoid him being run over.TK and Kinder students have no drive-up option to drop off, and are not allowed to use the parking lot, so we are forced to park on the street and walk up, which seems like terrible prioritizing.The Class Dojo app they require parents to use for communication AGGRESSIVELY shills the premium version by every available method, and the teachers seem to have no concept of how it looks on the parent side. Also, don't you dare advocate for your childs needs or request an accomodation of your teachers on Dojo or, they become wildly offended.My child comes home every day unwilling to talk about anything that happened at school. He's in trouble every day for being an excitable 5 year old who can't sit still. The school meals are chocked full of sugar (Yogurt, Applesauce and a Pop Tart for Breakfast, and both Chocolate Milk and an Icey at lunch) and almost no real food gets into him until he gets home, at which point he's hangry.Not a good school for parents or young students. They expect your child to sit still, shut up, keep to themselves and be a good little automaton. If you have any behavioral issues at all, be sure you have physician documentation or this school will do nothing for you while flooding you with behavioral write-ups for your kid.

This school is amazing wonderful teachers and excellent leadership. My son went to kindergarten here and will be in first grade I love that all the neighbors all attend the same school and I also taught art and loved being apart of the school, great PTA and a wonderful community!

Not very good. I think the students in Midde School are so disrespectful, many of the teachers transfer out if they can.

The school has a terrible process for applicants. They don’t answer phone and have a call back service. I haven’t been able to get ahold of a human. I either get transferred multiple times to a callback service.

The school principal oversees the students getting on the bus. My daughter was let to go home with the principals kids friends dad. Peter. The mom called me and let me know. I got there and the dad was in the Jacuzzi between the two five year old girls. Before dinner, I noticed a goose egg bump on her forehead. She said she fell on the stairs at their house. When I brought this to the attention of the school principal I learned this was her child's friends parents and she refused to "mandate" report herself or the family. I talked to the school nurse and she said she would arrange it with the teacher to make sure if there were any additional concussive symptoms, my kid would be sent to the nurse and I would get a phone call. Worried all day, no phone call. I found out there were additional concussive symptoms but the teacher was busy with a science production video in their classroom. There's proof of the goose egg on camera for the district science video. The teacher admitted she was overwhelmed and didn't pay attention to my child's symptoms. I didn't ask her to. I asked her to send her to the nurse and have me get her to take her to the doctor. My child was kidnapped under the principal's direct supervision & neglected under her teachers direct supervision with awareness of medical emergency. I was neglected as a parent and treated like they couldn't bother to do basic tasks for me. The teacher prior to this was exceptional with interesting interactive play. After this happened I was treated like I was in their way.

In the past seven academic years the school has had a consistent problem with not knowing when a sixth grader has left the campus and not been signed out. The school also has a problem in the office with paying attention to details to the point where it's concerning especially when your child can just leave campus and go somewhere else and be seen and the school had no idea that she was gone. It's also really appalling the level of excuses the principal Stephanie southcott comes up with when your child is screaming for help emotionally. She blames autism as a excuse when the autism has nothing to do with it and she has a copy of the IEP from a different County as well as a 504 plan. It takes numerous calls to correct anything with this office and numerous attempts to just get a copy of your child's file In the meantime children there are only allowed to perform academically to a very low bar and when your child constantly test higher than that in the state testing they still only keep your child at the low bar and not a combination classroom. The middle school is a joke You only have three teachers and 6 weeks after they start 6th grade they may get a locker for PE it's not high school preparatory at all It doesn't prepare for them for the real world on any level and unfortunately my child only had three good teachers the first three years she was there The rest have all been very challenging and difficult unfortunately my daughter has not been taken care of or given the respect that she needed while attending there This will be her last year.