Central Elementary School

Central Elementary offers an amazing learning environment, with particularly strong community feeling, greatly supporting and accomodating learning difficulties.

The teachers at Central that my children had during their four year tenure were excellent academically and were also keyed in to each student’s needs from a social and emotional perspective. The resources that Central provides are phenomenal. On the less positive side, in our experience and the experience of a large number of families that I am aware of the current administration blatantly favors a few select parents to the detriment of a significant portion of children that are in classes with the children of said parents. In particular significant physical events and other equally concerning behavior was overlooked for certain children despite written and oral communication by numerous parents and professionals documenting such incidents. Central is a school with many amazing teachers and paraprofessionals, but the administration needs to focus on the needs of the larger entire student body and not just those whose parents hire consultants to discredit teachers and other administrators.

The new superintendent is a failure. Covid response was a total mess. Staff and parents left the district in droves. Nobody running for school board because nobody wants to steer this wreck. District has been caught up in controversy after controversy over the past few years. Can't handle students on either end of the spectrum, whether with special needs or academically advanced. Many teachers are great, but they are disgruntled after how they've been treated.

Wonderful. Great five years for my daughter. Loved all the teachers and fantastic school community.

Outstanding student development with plenty of individual attention