Berwyn Heights Elementary School

My son is autistic and just had his 1st year here. He is going into 1st grade. He did PK3 & PK4 at 2 other schools before this. In PK3 he was in a special ed class. In PK4 he was in an inclusive classroom, but it wasn't well resourced. Now that he's at Lamont, he has teachers who love him, resources from the school, parents who show up for events & support when things need to get done. He has an IEP and at his meeting there were so many staff there for support, it felt like they actually cared about our child, which isn't what we've experienced st the other schools. I'm happy my other son will be starting here this year. Pleasant surprise!

I'm extremely disappointed with the bus service at Paint Branch Elementary. The timing is consistently terrible – my pre-K child's bus arrives around 5 PM, even though school ends at 3 PM. What's worse, one day the bus actually took my child back to the school, and they were there until 5:30 PM with only the janitor present. While I'm not accusing the janitor of anything, the fact that there was no staff supervising my five-year-old is unacceptable. This school needs to seriously improve its transportation and supervision. I cannot recommend Paint Branch Elementary based on this experience.

I am a former student from this place they call a school. My experience was mostly negative and I often felt targeted at times by teachers. I have severe ADHD and I’m mixed (half white and half Filipino), for some reason I was constantly hated by teachers who had no sense of empathy. Whenever I had a hard time on a certain topic in class or had a hard time focusing, instead of helping me, my teachers openly judged me and compared me to my peers asking “why can’t you just focus like they can?” At some point my parents had a meeting bf with my teachers to discuss certain issues and we all agreed on a plan that would allow me extra time on tests and let me turn in homework a day later but it was hardly enforced and many of my teachers chose to ignore the plans. Even when I had a valid excuse as to why I didn’t do my homework one night because my sister was hospitalized my teacher simply didn’t care and still wrote me up. They also don’t seems to care much about bullying, when I was in first or second grade these two older kids chased me around the playground calling me an alien, I went to tell the teacher 4 times but nothing was ever done. DO NOT send your kids here if they have any kind of disability whether it’s mental, physical, and/or a learning disability. I swear they will also hire teachers who hate kids, I had an English teacher in 4th grade who was insufferable, a gym teacher who actively bullied/ ridiculed kids, a 1st grade teacher who clearly would rather be out with friends partying then teaching a bunch of 1st graders, and so many teachers who were clearly underpaid and took their frustrations out on the students (not physically but definitely verbally and emotionally).