Lindley Elementary School

My child goes to this school. They have gotten my child reading and writing before 1st grade. Very advanced education program. Teachers are wonderful. The principal is amazing and they even offer transportation to aftercare for the children. Free breakfast and lunch.

The school is focused on passing Teir 1 goals and standards.... Not much else. The "spanish immersion" is NOT effective, nor worth sitting in the parking lot for 30 minutes twice a day to pick up and drop off. There is little involvement with parents besides 2 required 15 minute parent/ teacher conferences. There are few extra curricular activities offered, less community involvement/ exposure, even less field trips. You can feel the budget cuts at this school. Sad, because the idea behind the school is there, execution and funding? are lacking.

I was very happy with this school for my daughter in Kindergarten and 1st grade. However once she got into 2nd grade I noticed less Spanish and grades getting bad. She just finished 4th grade. I'm very disappointed in the teachers and the new principal. This school has gone downhill real fast. A lot of parents are not happy and some are not bringing their children back next year. I don't want to change my daughters school for the last year. But I will not continue to go on to Portage Middle School.

I like Lindley, I always have. I went to Lindley k-5 and had a great experience. I had some great educators and came out of there feeling prepared both socially and academically. I was excited to send my son there because I wanted him to have a great start to an education like I did. All and all, that has been the case thus far. (he is only in 1st gr.) I think that Lindley has some really great teachers that truly care about our children. We have a new principle and she seems to be doing a good job. I appreciate her "no nonsense" attitude. I feel like Mr. Arthur was a nice guy but he was not getting the job done properly. Our test scores & stats could be higher however, I think we are working on that. Now for the only neg aspect I have found so far. I am not sure this Spanish immersion program is what it is cracked up to be. When my son was in kindergarten, I was amazed by the info he was retaining in another language. Amazing! Yet, it is not the same in first grade. It seems as if the consistency is not there. If our kids are going to benefit from learning another language they need to be consistenly challenged in each grade so by the time they leave Lindley they are near fluency.

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