Leclaire Elementary School
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8 reviews
801 Franklin Avenue
Edwardsville, IL 62025
Edwardsville, IL 62025
(618) 656-3825
Community Reviews
Read what parents are saying about Leclaire Elementary School1) How they treat kids with disabilities is completely unacceptable. I could write a book on this, but I won’t. 2) Parents are constantly asked for money but you are not included in anything unless you are part of the “clique.”3) Communication is severely lacking.
Posted by a parent on 9/26/2023The principal at this school showed total disregard for the feelings of my child, who has a disability. She has exhibited extremely questionable behavior on more than one occasion. Her actions have directly caused mental anguish to my child, and caused him to miss learning time in the classroom. She has no place working in a K-2 school and should be removed from her position.
Posted by a parent on 5/26/2019This school is the worst school in district 7.
Posted by a parent on 5/23/2019LeClaire has a been a disappointment from day one. A majority of "indoor recess" days are spent watching non-educational cartoons (e.g. Chicken Little)in the gym or classroom. Even the kindergarten music class spends music lessons watching youtube videos. The security is lacking at best. Many days the little ones are walking in to the school completely unwatched. More than once I have entered the school to pick up our child to find the security guard's desk empty and me left to wander the halls. The principal seemed to put more effort into winning a social media video contest (which she did so kudos there) than she does ensuring the safety and development of our children. There is no on staff music teacher or librarian and many of the recess monitors are parent volunteers.
Posted by a parent on 3/20/2017If I could I would give NO STARS, Edwardsville District 7 does not care for special needs children. I fought for 9 years for an IEP for my child and they blew me off every time. Made me feel I was in the wrong for even fighting for one. My child is mentally ill, needed extra help for years and showed signs of Dyslexia. Nothing not one thing was EVER done for her no matter how much I fought. We had 1 great teacher and that was her best year. I give that teacher 5 stars! this school ZERO. The district total ZERO. Couldn't even verbally get in contact personally with Ed Hightower. Was told to write a letter. A LETTER.....REALLY. something that could be dismissed and thrown away. Don't let the rating's fool you if you aren't part of the 1% you aren't important at Dist 7. THANK GOODNESS WE MOVED! My Child Went here K-2nd and was bullied about being fat and started starving herself. I was appalled at what little was done. AND please explain to me why there are book fees in Dist. 7 when the books are never new? There are still books being used from the Early 90's. Where does our $$ GO?!
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N/AGreatSchools RatingParent Rating AverageThe teachers, for the most part, are really unfriendly here, except for a few exceptional ones. They don't go the extra mile to help students who are struggling on some material to round them out before moving on, or offer opportunity to correct/learn for the mistakes for some half credit to help redeem the situation. One teacher personally admitted they cram several subjects in just to make it all work administratively, forget what it means to a child trying to learn a lot of material that just thrown at them so the teacher can say they covered it. There is a lot of homework assigned in several of the grades/teachers while some other grades/teachers have little to none. Very inconsistent homework policy here. For the grades that load up the homework - typically 3 to 5 subjects of homework every night so expect at least 2 to 4 hours of homework every day with the average leaning more towards the 3 hours mark. Don't be sick day or you'll be buried in homework. Paper Tests galore like its the 90's - they have no creativity to evaluate the students here outside of an examination. There is no science fair here. Band - some of the teachers are talking bad things about the band staff and being very difficult with them to get a concert which is killing off this art form at the school. Seriously - they can't even get along with each other here and are way too tight on things that have nothing to do with anything. The teamwork that the teachers want to have with parents in the learning process is very lacking to non-existent (except those exceptional few teachers). Want to send questions and clarifications to a teacher about a newsletter's content or an assignment several times a week - they get angry you are contacting them too much and see it as a threat to their teaching skill! This school likes to dish out detentions and suspensions like no other instead of taking a more counseling/guiding approach to help the child grow from the situation and working with the parents to aid in that growth. They can't find it in their hearts to be different than an average public school in helping a child change their direction or actions (should it have truly been a wrong action), but default to seek punishment as the sole answer. Sports is King here. The principal doesn't run the show there and must get validation from others, so don't expect him to stand up for anything/decision on his own. Not a great place once the onion layers are peeled. God bless themParent Review5mo ago - Gateway Legacy Christian Academy
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Edwardsville schools - Leclaire Elementary School is located at 801 Franklin Avenue, Edwardsville IL 62025. Leclaire Elementary School is in the Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7. Leclaire Elementary School is a Public school that serves grade levels PK-2.
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