Shepardson Elementary School

The in classroom experience goes based on each teacher. My kids have had horrible educator's and amazing one. There is no communication, or transparency. They promote bullying behaviors - my children were called stupid in front of me by staff. 22 incidents with one student and my oldest before the school intervened. No discipline for racial and homophobic comments. My kids have been physically assaulted multiple times. I have gone through the board of directors, even to the schools attorney. Only made them target my children. They don't teach accountability for staff or students and use favoritism frequently. No one answers the phone ever. And they choose which students the policy's are enforced with and which not to. Strongly do NOT recommend!

Kruse is a phenomenal school. The academics are fantastic and the kids are really connected to each other and to the school.

Went to this school when I was younger. Teachers were rude and 100% picked favorites. Gym teacher was utterly disrespectful to both me and my brother. Most teachers didn't take certain matters seriously and allowed me to be harassed almost the entire time I attended. There were students that would physically harm others, including myself and teachers overlooked it constantly. There was a time that I was being physically harassed to the point that I ended up resorting to self defense. The kid never got in trouble but I got written up for it. The school was fun at first but as I got older, it slowly got worse. I'm a junior in high-school now, and I don't imagine this school has changed much since I left. Nobody is aware of this since they aren't currently attending that school like these children are. I can only hope that kids don't go through the same treatment that I, along with many other children did.

My kid is in 5th grade this year at Linton and we have loved it.

My husband found Rivendell online when we decided to relocate to Fort Collins several years ago from out of state and it, honestly, felt a little too good to be true. We wanted a school that perpetuated a JOY for learning while challenging our kids to push beyond their current abilities. We wanted a school that understood the importance of social-emotional learning, was rooted in kindness and partnered with us to help instill confidence in our kids. Since we were coming from out of state, we also wanted a place to start building our community. Flash forward several years and now our older son is on his third year at Rivendell and our younger son is in his first year. We actually ended up moving our younger son to Rivendell earlier than we intended since he was being bullied at another school and the administrators refused to address the issue. Now that he is at Rivendell the bullying has stopped and he is thriving! We also have developed great friendships with other families at Rivendell - it is at the core of our community.The administrators, teachers and staff continue to blow the high expectations we had going in out of the water. As we hear about the ups and downs that others have experienced at other schools within Fort Collins, we continue to feel grateful for this gem of a school and that our boys get to have these precious and formative years there.