Mcclellan Elementary School

The quality of the school as a recent graduate was average at best and saddening at worst. I will only talk about eighth grade overall because i best remember it. The eighth grade teachers try their best but lash out often (usually for good reasons and intentions) However work at times can feel repetitive and some assignments are never graded or checked (mostly in Social Studies and Reading) which leads to alot of frustration among the students, leading to lackluster effort in work. Additionally, this applies to math and mathematics only, our teacher very poorly taught and reviewed the subject. She sped ran the teaching of it, creating confusion and overall suffering because of our lack of time to process the information and lack of good teaching for us to understand it. The teachers have empathy for the students, giving us break time after stressful periods such as CPS testing. The teachers tried incorporating fun projects and work at some points but I think we should've had more creative projects that made us truly think about it. Our prep teachers were okay overall, however some can be unnecessarily rude and mean and times. Actually, a good amount of faculty were unreasonably rude and disrespectful towards students yet expected respect from said students they disrespected. Most of the students is just friends with others of the same race and mild discrimination (usually jokes but some people are just racist/other discrimination). Anyways this school was fine

The principal is a joke. Student safety and overall mental health is the last thing on his agenda. He does not care about anyone's kids getting bullied. It is not a safe environment for kids. There are zero consequences. All the kids have to do is say "sorry" And All is forgiven. Kids have gotten so smart that they know they can do whatever they want to anyone. The kids are literally running around wild. It's like the wild wild West. If you send your kid here, you would not be able to sleep at night. There are good teachers there but their hands are tied.

Armour is an excellent neighborhood school! As a kindergarten parent, I've been very impressed with my son's academic progress in a short period of time. The school environment is warm and empathetic, and my son's teacher is communicative and responsive to my questions and concerns. My kiddo clearly feels safe and comfortable at school and looks forward to the school day. The school's academic performance metrics have improved significantly under Principal Chuu's leadership, and she has secured significant resources to fund brand new STEM labs that are used by all grade levels. I'm confident that Armour will be a great place for my son to attend K-8 and am very pleased to have a top-shelf neighborhood school so close to our home.

My son attended to James Ward school since kindergarten. I love the school has strong Multi cultural background. The teacher and the stuff very friendly and care about the students and they’re families. They’re good Level 1+ neighborhood school.

I have two boys at St. Jerome, going into 5th and 2nd. This is our second year and I am VERY happy with the school. Academically, I feel they are really being challenged. I am a big fan of the curriculum-they teach the common sense, fundamentals that kids need without all the nonsense public schools are teaching these days. There is very strong parental involvement and tons of activities that the kids get involved with generous jeans to support causes, many field trips, mother-son mayhem, father-daughter dance, all-school picnic and many other unique activities that I haven't seen at other schools.