Immanuel Lutheran

Just walk into this school and you will feel the positive energy and a welcoming experience from all staff. There is an obvious and genuine love for teaching and learning throughout each hallway of Fred G Garner Academy.

This school is absolute garbage. My sister is enrolled in this school and the security, everything is awful. The school has gotten several bomb threats and the most they do will be checkups. My sister has been sexually assaulted many times by a classmate who has done the same to other girls. She has told her counselor and a few teachers but they have never said anything about it and have also just told her to "stay away" from him multiple times. The school is also insanely bad with bullying, especially those of the disabled kids. It is also a big problem for kids of other ethnicities and religions, beliefs and orientation. The teachers really do not care about doing their job either and I have also seen that they might use AI. Overall this is not a good school, and our family is thinking of filing a police report against said kid who sexually assaulted my sister and many other girls, and maybe even the school itself. Shame on the teachers for ever letting this happen, please never go to Auburn High School in Florida, it is seriously a bad place and no teacher takes any problem seriously.

This is literally of of the WORST schools in Polk county. They do not care about your children’s education or feelings at all!

From a special needs mom perspective, I would not recommend this school for special needs children. The school is not supportive when it comes to the educational achievement or advancement of children who are special needs but hide functioning. It’s more like daycare for special needs children. They group all of the children together whether they are low functioning or high functioning and do not provide accommodations like speech therapy, etc. In addition, I feel so excluded from my child educational life due to the fact there is no family engagement or social fellowship.

My experience was the worst with this school, I thought that private school would provide better quality of education but it turned out completely opposite. There is constantly subs, and no-one teaches anything. 2 years just wasted . I had to hire private educators to catch up.A lot of parents say ASA like to show off rather than put some efforts to educate kids. I heard a lot of horrible stories how they treated families. One farther shared the story that he was taken money for the whole year of education even his son decided to go to another school, they still charged for the whole year. another family had horrible experience with safety - their son was not supervised on playground and got his hand broken, another one - got scull broken. So they don't take care of kids safety. Stay away from this school.