Centennial A School for Expeditionary Learning

Love our neighborhood school! Great community. Everyone is welcoming and inviting. Truly feels like home for both my children and myself.

As a parent, a unicorn school is one that feels safe, has great teachers, and a collaborative administration. Edison feels relatively safe, and all teachers we've had have been great — each trained to identify and handle gifted students. That alone makes this a good school.It would be a great school if the administration were better. The principal's strengths are in managing the school operationally, but leadership, conflict resolution, and genuine engagement with parents are not among them. She tends to see parents as adversaries and pushes their concerns toward the (admittedly well-run) PTA. The enrollment staff is notably unwelcoming — in our experience and in conversations with other families.If you sail into this school easily and never interact with the administration, you will enjoy Edison and your kids will test well through the grades. If you're looking for a collaborative administration, diversity, and general empathy for children, you may be better served elsewhere.

Sandoval is a disaster. It makes me sad to think of all of the great families who left because of how poorly this school is run. It’s really too bad. I hope a new principal can turn things around.

Wonderful school and community. My kids have been at SPPS for over a year now and the community and experience just gets better and better. The teachers are experienced and caring, the staff/admin truly cares about your children. My children are learning and have a stronger mastery of their subjects than friends with kids at other schools. I have been so happy to have people in our corner at SPPS who are keeping our best interests in mind. Also, there are many opportunities to build a strong network of friends as a parent. There are many volunteer opportunities and other parents really go the extra mile to get to know one another and invite kids to parties and events. This community seems to be in a renaissance and truly it feels more and more fun to be a part of it. I will say that the more you put in the more you will get out. I have taken the time to volunteer and talk with people and it has paid many dividends for our family. Couldn’t recommend this school more!

I used to love this school until 24/25 school year when they added middle school. These kids have no respect for the school or the younger students. They cuss, fight, hug n kiss on other students while on school property and in front of the younger kids. Now the younger kids are being exposed to things that they should not see at such a young age. Younger kids always look up to older kids and now they are being exposed to older kid activities and unfortunately these kids are being brought in from the hood, excuse me for saying that but it’s true. My student class is forced to have lunch in his class room this year now due to the older kids. He is loosing out on the lunch room experience. Very disappointed A form was sent out about teacher week and things the teacher would like, okay that’s great. There was a section on this form that referenced how the teacher would like to be identified. Are you kidding me. Be liberal out side of school. I am not here as a parent to know your pronouns. You’re a teacher, focus on teaching.