Elm Park Community School

I love this school I get to have fun Friday!

My son started kindergarten this year and he loves it! I love when you walk into the school you feel welcomed and everyone greets you with a smile. All schools should be like this one.

My experience has truly been amazing. The community is very positive and overall a good learning atmosphere. The learning is amazing. They keep things fun and interesting while also challenging you or your child. The teaching is good. Homeroom teachers are very kind and positive and so are some specials teachers. I don't have any complaints for the specials teachers except for the art program. The art teacher is very disrespectful, rude, disempowing, and in my opinion should not be working with kids at all. The emotion support is also very good. Teachers are very understanding and so is admin. if you send your child to city view, you can for sure trust that your kid will have the emotional support they need. Special education is also very good and city view even has Step classes for your child. The safety is also pretty good. There will be fights but its not the schools biggest problem, infact the school doesn't have any big problems. Family engagement is also amazing. Admin and teachers are very good at helping families and answering questions when asked. Thank you for reading and I would for sure recomend city view discovery school for your child.

The school has no training and no structure or capacity. If your child is not a "little angel", they suffer from lack of emotional assistance, they have a huge amount of children in Pre-k, and they don't have a fixed room, they mix more than 50 children between three classes, they are never with the same classmates and that is why children have difficulty maintaining bonds with each other, making development difficult in all areas. the teacher's assistants are not qualified to the point of blaming the child for lack of emotional development, without feedback after all there are many students for only 4 teachers, the school has a shine, the children do little physical activity. Finally, the school does not have any emotional development program, it does not have any training for children with developmental difficulties, on the contrary, the teachers are sometimes rude to children and parents. I definitely do not advise you to enroll your child in this school.

Venerini has a new principal, Dr. Alfieri, who is making positive changes to the school! Pros:Strong ELA programSmall class sizes Teachers know the students and familiesStrong music programGreat kids in the school Cons:STEM partnership with WPI does not exist anymore No outdoor playground (blacktop only) Middle school is too small, same teachers for all 3 gradesOverall Venerini is a good value for the money, and Dr. Alfieri is working to grow the areas that need improvement.