Salt Lake Elementary School

This is the worst school on the planet. The teachers or horrible, staff is rude. They do not care about your child’s wellbeing or education. If you can avoid this school I would at all cost. Your child and there education WILL suffer. No one at this school seems educated or qualified to be in the field of education. I do not understand how a school could be filled with such poor educators. This teachers, staff and administrators don’t care and at the core are also terrible people.

Personally, I feel that this school is great. There are many events hosted so students can connect with the faculty and parents. The staff are nice and know how to enforce safety within the school. My child has only been here for one year and I am enjoying my time here in Hawaii. The teachers keep in touch with the parents via Class Dojo and are quick to respond to an issue. My son hasn't been complaining and he too thinks the school is fun, safe and an indeed favorable school to attend. However, I would like it if the pick-up process would be less hectic because it can take up to 15 minutes just to locate your child. However, situations like these are rare, and I feel like overall, Shafter Elementary is a decent school to attend for military families!!

My kids have been going to this school for the past 4 years. Since I have 4, I have experience with them going through pre-k to 6th grade. Overall, we have had a good experience with adequate teacher communication and helpfulness. The staff stay with my kids until they are picked up. The staff even organized a meal-train for my family and offered extra support/counseling when our family was going through a rough time. We are a military family and like that our kids have friends who are in a similar position as them. This year, my kids have been able to have more field trips and more after-school activities are available such as art, language classes, hula, running club etc.

Our children connected with their teachers immediately and our family appreciated the community events and participated in the Amazing Shake and VEX competitions.

My kids have been at Nimitz for 2 years so far and we have had very good experiences. There are a few programs and events that are special through out the year. The fall festival at the school has always been fun and interactive. The holiday program is memorable. Recently they have free after school programs for different interests from art, gardening, Japanese genki etc. That the teachers volunteer to teach. The school counselor is very delightful. I think the nurse gets tired of seeing my accident prone son sometimes but the staff always makes the kids and parents feel welcomed. Seems there is quite a bit of testing for my kids but they do well and I believe they are getting what is needed to grade out well. I like the fact that there is some Hawaiian culture within the education. I feel my kids are friendly with everybody in the whole school. Very grateful for my kids to thrive here.

The school’s website is always terribly outdated. They seldom use technology! The text books, if they have any, are many times old & outdated like 1980’s! Many teachers just wing it with wrk sheets or something they got off the internet like “teachers pay teachers” website! No parent involvement at all for years! Not surprising given- Administration just likes to use the latest educational jargon but not once will you hear “how does it effect student learning” bec they only care about forms & checking boxes regardless of whether it is actually happening or actually being effective! I honestly have never seen a worse educational system as this! The classrooms look like they’re fire hazards! It’s so bad you feel sorry for them but then you realize it’s easy to fix! It’s called learning & understanding the best educational practices, accountability and genuine caring about the students!!