Topeka High School

All of my children attended Meadows even though we live in Shawnee Heights and all 3 loved their learning experience.

My child loves going to school each morning. I have seen so much progress in his learning and behavior. Teachers and staff have communicated so well with me. School events are well organized and announced with enough time to plan ahead. So glad my kiddo attends Scott!

My child attended this school from kindergarten to part of second grade, during my child’s second grade year, I decided to pull him from this school. Each year was worse and worse to the point that I decided to pull my child from Williams. The current principal, Kari Ritter, is not an effective principal and her attitude does not reflect that of a leader. We had a meeting with Kari and other staff due to my concerns about my child while at this school, during the meeting, Kari was snobby, rude, and demeaning. My concerns were not addressed at the meeting and the meeting actually made my child’s school experience worse. Parents, please look at the test scores at Williams, that alone is reason enough to not enroll your child at this school. I encourage parents to find an elementary school that truly cares about academics in addition to your child’s safety and learning environment….My child now attends a different elementary school where he is flourishing academically and he really loves school now.

Lowman Hill is a wonderful school, that is filled with diversity and many opportunities for learning. Topeka Public Schools is providing training for teachers to learn about engaging students in meaningful discussions while they are learning. The Lowman Hill teachers will be implementing this as they return back to school this fall. Everyone loves that Lowman Hill is small enough that many teachers know all of the student's names.

Our family has been at Randolph for 38 years. All four of my children and now all five of my grandchildren have attended there. My husband also attended Randolph from1968-1975. We LOVE this school!!! The neighborhood around it has remained an in demand location for people to move to because of Randolph. It has maintained an active parent support group for many, many years. They work very hard to help keep Randolph great. One of the most impressive things I remember them doing is when schools didn’t have a computer lab for the students to work and learn computer skills, our parent organization raised the money to put the first computer lab in our school well before any other school in our district had one. We’ve purchased playground equipment, classroom supplies and teacher needs. We’ve funded educational field trips and basically any need we see. Our teachers are top notch and always have been. Many of them over the years have spent their entire teaching career there. I have been impressed with every teacher my children and grandchildren have had. They have been blessed with some of the best teachers ever!!! We are the oldest active elementary school in Topeka and our alumni come in droves to share their memories when we have had anniversary celebrations in the past. Our most recent one was our 90th and we are approaching 100!!! Alumni drop in constantly to have a look at the place they got their educational start and they love to share their memories with our current students. The Randolph community has always felt like its own small town as the neighbors come to the school for many events throughout the year even once their children have graduated out of elementary school. It is a special place for sure and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Superhero staff that take great care of their students. I feel like Everyone is family , I would recommend this school over and over again, thank you whitson.

If you are UBER conservative Christian and have a neurotypical child that is perfect, this is the place for them. Otherwise, don't expect any education for the money you are spending.