Lake Ridge Elementary School

This school is horrible. They don't let you do anything. There is no freedom in anything. You had to sit and eat your lunch quietly with no talking or you would get in trouble. Then proceed to make us go outside no matter the temperature and you couldn't go inside unless there was a big enough storm or it was below freezing. The learning environment is very toxic and after school, you would get no free time with the amount of homework they gave you. I went there from kindergarten to 8th grade, and it was torture. The teachers are rude and don't even really help when you ask a question. Let's talk about the fact that it is an "anti-bully school" but the teachers are the ones bullying you and making you feel like you're not smart enough and the kids know everything about you because you have been in the same class with them since kindergarten and you can't socialize with another classes unless they were your lunch partner or else you would get in trouble. Send your kids there if you don't want them to have a life. They are very strict when it comes to literally everything. If you talked during any part of class, you would have to sit on the wall during recess and wouldn't get a break. This place is hell on earth, and I wouldn't even send my enemies here.

My daughter has never gone to a worse school. Her teachers gave her so much homework, I'd sometimes find her doing in until 1 am, when she started at 5 pm. Its crazy because they will give work to her that is only expected from high school students, but is given to middle schoolers. I wish this school nothing but the worse since thats what they wished for my daughter.

Teachers go above and beyond and engage with students. Unfortunately new staff up at the front office have hassled my kid more than once over a simple situation that could have been handled. Instead of saying rude things back and forth and I have to continue hearing it after school when a front office person could have earlier made a phone call home.

I do not recommend this school, specifically for kindergartners. My son was so excited to start school and shortly became very clear this was not going to be a good fit. The staff is not very friendly at all. They are not accommodating or welcoming. My son is barely 5 and pretty shy. He came home on the 3rd day of school and told me his teacher was squeezing his hand/arm really hard when he wasn't listening. I am pretty disappointed and upset at how our school experience started. He is being transferred to another school. Just wanted to state my experience for any parents considering kindergarten at this school. Save your time.

horrible school and even more terrible when school is over the staff there are very disrespectful aren’t very nice nice to children they like to chose favorites and will punish kids for at times no reason and when we try to resolve it the school does nothing and it just gets even worse when school ends parent pick up is a nightmare it backs up so much traffic on the main road accidents are always almost happening now since they added their strict pick up rules and have already threatened to ban me and a dozen of other parents from their property for disagreeing with the rule change