St Angela Elementary School

SO GOOD ABSOLUTE W SCHOOL. bro this school is so good it made my childhood 1000 times better because of the welcoming people.

Both of my children have graduated from this school and I will miss it very much. Wonderful sense of community. The general music teacher is exceptionally strong and runs a steel band program that is one in a million. My children both enjoyed their years at Hatch and flourished. The oldest has been successful in middle school, the youngest is poised and ready. They both formed many excellent friendships that endure.

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

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.

The principal at this school is a joke the only thing he cares about is himself. He will tell parents what they wanna hear but he will not follow through with anything he says!!

They have always exceeded the expectations of the parents

It’s my first year at this school I already had trouble the teachers are alright just don’t handle problems correctly it’s a math teacher she is a older woman so she don’t understand kids and the way they feel I have about 3 parent teacher conferences with this same teachers and I also feel as my learning has dropped since I been to this school my math grade has went down it was always a B+ and above now a DorF i tried to talk to the teacher for help all she do is tell me nothing and have a attitude if you ask her a simple question she says “Are you challenging me” then have a big argument for no reason and want a parent teacher conference she is very inconsiderate