Elsie A Hastings Elementary School

This school is fundamentally flawed. Structurally all K-3 elementary schools feed into Mill Pond creating an environment of a premature middle school for 4-6 graders. Kids this age are not ready for this environment. The school is too big for an elementary school and students make friends one year and then the next year they may hardly see each other because the kids are in separate halls and lunch rotations. The administration tends to favor kids with behavioral problems and continuously gives those kids a pass when they bully or threaten other kids. Communication with the administration in general is very frustrating. Overall we have been happy with the teachers.

Second year in this school and by far is the best school we can choose for our kids, and is the best school as the staff is awesome 1000/10. Can’t thing a better group of people to take care and educate my kids!

Overall, I liked Armstrong better than any of the other schools in the Westborough District. There is one minor gripe—when my third grader asked me what was a “coyote”, and she wasn’t talking about the wild dog—is a book about Honduran immigrants who utilize the services of these smugglers of illegal immigrants really such an appropriate reading selection for a third grader?! Really?! And yes, she did find that out in a selection of books in her teacher’s classroom, as it isn’t a term we use at home.