Grant Ranch K-8 School

Don’t send your child here if they need special education services. The special education staff is amazing, but the general education teachers have zero interest in including your child. My child has sat by themselves a lot and is not included in the classroom activities often. She is definitely discriminated against because of her disabilities. Leadership doesn’t have the knowledge of special education and IEPs to help with the situation.

Hi! I’m an alumni from this school. My personal recommendation? Don’t send your children here.From kindergarten to fifth grade I attended Governor’s Ranch Elementary, and I am genuinely traumatized from those years. From the age of 6 until I was around 10(?) I believe? I felt alienated and abandoned by both the peers, and the teachers who were supposed to protect and support me. The teachers, in my experience, were awful to children with disabilities if those disabilities happened to fly under the radar, and many of them talked down to me and other students in their class for not understanding concepts. My social skills never developed because nobody would talk to me. The teachers are cliquey, so because my mom said one wrong thing, none of the teachers children talked to me. And none of them really liked me either. Nobody stepped in, and I will never recover from the lasting trauma this school left me. If I do, it will take many years of my life. I developed severe depression before I even knew what that word meant.Do not send your kids here.

I have waited a long time to make a review to reflect on what the real problems were with FRCS. I believe this school is damaging enough to it's students that I should leave some warning for anybody considering it. There are some amazing teachers here who go out of their way for the students. Generally that is not the case, though potentially it is beginning to improve a little. Most teachers follow a straight line to not risk their jobs or relationship with the owner/principle and coworkers. The main issue I have is with the High-school Bible teaching. I have no knowledge of who is teaching that now, they could be great, but in the past it has proven to be very damaging to students. The selling point for FRCS to a lot of people is the Bible/Christian aspect. But I have learned it is worse to be taught the Bible wrong than not at all. The last Bible teacher was a sports coach, and should have never been considered for Bible teaching. The 3-4 teachers before that, (usually duos) generally taught more harmful beliefs than thought provoking ones. And almost always were in disagreement with each other. I personally chose to agree more with Nietzche than any Bible teacher, and they introduced me to his philosophy. I truly do hope the Bible teaching is better now, but in my experience it can be devastating to a real faith in God. It seems encouraged for the teachers to disagree with the literal parts of the Bible, and leave most things open ended. Which is especially bad when they are the ones to give the side of non believers and just leave the defense unsaid. As far as the Christian side of FRCS, I would highly suggest you either tell your kid to ignore the Bible teachers, or to avoid the school entirely. I had a terrible experience for a lot of reasons, that is not the fault of staff. So I will not speak to the other aspects more, but i do think its important for me to warn people considering this school. Even if you are not a believer but want your kid at an expensive private school for whatever reason, this is probably not for you. It has too few students for real social interactions, and public school probably offers a slightly higher level of education.