Douglass Academy High School

This place sucks nobody listens to teachers. I watched a kid YELL a slur and nobody said anything.

I wouldn't recommend this school to my sorst enemy for their children to attend. The display favoritism among the students, I have heard of school employees engaging in arguments with and cursing student. There was even an instance of 2 students, who are sister's in 7th & 8th grades, along with their mother actually jumping on another student and her mother! Neither one of the sister's or their mother was disciplined for the attack, they suffered no consequences while the student whose mother was attacked lost all of her graduation privilege's. They have been allowed to continue with all school activities because the staff sides with these type of individuals. The principal has no control and has no idea how to be a leader! I will be contacting the board of education about the misdeeds of the students and staff at this horrible school. If you value you're children's safety and education then you may want to look into other schools because this school and it's staff is terrible!!

In my experience this school has been improving. The school is under new leadership and has recently moved back to a CPS. In the past advanced courses such as Algebra wasn’t an option because there wasn’t a certified Algebra endorsed teacher. Howe has offered Algebra for the last two academic years. I’m year 1 66% of the students that took the Algebra Exit exam passed. In year two 100% of the Algebra Exit exam passed. Teachers are educated and dedicated to providing a great learning experience. The SEL supports are second to none. All students that have an IEP are receiving services per their plan. Safety within the school is no issue the surrounding community could use some help and that’s the job of the City of Chicago. Lets not forget that schools such as Howe are over 100 years old and the building was not maintained as it should have been, but this new administration has updated the facilities. They have been making connections with businesses in the community. Websites like this don’t take those key factors into account and they also never dawn the halls of these schools. Ask yourself why are all the schools serving a majority of low income students always at the bottom? If we know that providing proper resources and personnel would help why haven’t the resources been allocated. This school is one without a gifted program, but there are gifted students at every grade level. Get to know the people, the community and then produce narratives based on firsthand experiences. The information in this site Thats being shared is from 2008, the administration is wrong, the information is wrong.

La peor experiencia que pudo vivir mi hijo, es una escuela que esta diseñada para la educación especial gran parte del alumnado tiene discapacidades, incluyendo mi hijo por esta razón yo estuve muy al pendiente de su avance sin embargo poco a poco me di cuenta de las deficiencias de la escuela, una de ellas y para mi la mas importante es la empatía que deben tener los maestros, asistentes, equipo de seguridad, incluyendo también al transporte escolar; la gran mayoría de ellos suelen gritarles horrible a los niños por decir poco, el bullying es masivo los niños pelean y no importa la edad, en el caso de mi hijo tuvo mas accidentes que en ninguna otra escuela que ha estado, y lo llamo accidentes por que así se me fueron reportados como ACCIDENTES cuando había marcas de dientes o uñas en el, y ni hablar de la comunicación con los maestros o la case manager obtendrás una respuesta en 1 mes si te va bien.

This school is TERRIBLE. Do not send your kids here. Teachers are immature. Kids are allowed to bully with little to no consequences. The students also lie on other students. After care workers are terrible, they will lie and pick with children. Teachers aren't equipped to be teachers. They have mold in the school and some of the lunch has mold in it. Kids shouldn't feel like this is all their worth because this is a private school. They're charging for an education when there's nothing special about what they are teaching. They penalize the whole class based off the wrong doing of one student. They have so many extras working there that shouldn't even be working with kids. They feel like they can talk to students however they want but when students respond they get in trouble. They send out certain people to make their school look good. They also put on an act when that's not their true character. The communication is terrible and they will even stop responding to you.

Overall my experience at this school had been great. My adult daughter attended this school and now her children attend.