Avoca West Elementary School

My child didn’t have a good experience here. This school doesn’t do anything about the bullying, in their grade and it’s been 4 or 5 weeks and nobody has said anything. Another thing that didn’t give my child a good experience here is the math curriculum and homework. The homework the children receive take less than five minutes to do since they only hand out a single piece of paper instead of packets and multiple sheets of homework. The math curriculum is poor and they need to step it up a notch. It’s to easy for my children and I’m sure others. I wouldn’t recommend this school because they have good teachers but also sour teachers. The good teachers are to easy on the students and whenever kids whisper in class they don’t care. The sour teachers are more strict on students. I’m concerned about the bullying and homework mostly especially that they don’t teach enough about money at this school, I asked my child “ what is “25x8” and they didn’t know. Kids at this school get made fun of here and it’s not cool because nobody does anything! I wouldn’t recommend moving in the area to go to this school.

I would highly recommend Avoca West Elementary School. The teachers and administration are invested in teaching the whole child and go above and beyond the basics of just giving an education. Every teacher that my children have had has been wonderful and helped my children enjoy coming to school every day. This small, diverse population of students allows my children to feel comfortable with who they are and supported academically, socially, and emotionally. This is a phenomenal New Trier feeder school and we feel so lucky to live in this district.

It's so bad that we enrolled our kid in private school! Our child is very bright but has ADHD which can affect his learning. The teachers and the administration kept insisting that he was doing fine and he didn't need extra help or accommodations even though he was falling further behind and losing self-esteem. By the time we pulled him out he was two grade levels behind and developing school anxiety!! Recently we learned that the Avoca school district has been operating with a deficit and had cut the budget on intervention programs, teacher training, and special education services which explains a lot. We know too many Avoca families that have had to take legal action or move to other North Shore districts just to get decent support services for their kids. The administration is next-level incompetent.

Mediocre. Poorly run. Should be better based on the high taxes.

We love AW!! It’s been such a wonderful new school year especially since our son is transferring into a new school. First started as remote then quickly switched over to hybrid and now 5 days a week.