Handy Middle School

Very unethical practices. Grade fabricating. Teacher rivalry. Students misbehave and are violent.

Watch for review manipulations. Reviews less than 5 stars on major search engines are reported and removed. I have watched this over the years. Reviews on this site thankfully stay it seems, but you can tell by the writing who is writing the 5 star reviews on here. What a great way to inflate ratings! Seriously, rather than trying to rig the reviews and put lipstick on a pig, please spend that time and effort fixing the issues. Our society will decline if we don't give our upcoming generations a good education in a caring atmosphere and if we don't respect all our hardworking staff.

As of 2023/24 school year: the principal is awful and avoids conflict. If you have an issue be prepared to be ignored and avoided. It's not a bias on my part either. Several parents (well over a dozen) have tried to speak to him on the issue of a bad teacher, bullying, and sexual harassment issues and everyone has nothing to say but bad things. He has literally hid in his office and claimed he wasn't there. He has hid behind bureaucracy as why he can't address multiple parents at the same time over the same issue. He has bullied other staff into keeping quite about an ill fitted teacher instead of working on the actual issue. He has sent other staff to meetings in his place so that he doesn't have to report the event or move you ahead in the beaucratic steps necessary to report an issue and advance it's being addressed. In my experience all teacher but one have been superb examples of caring, with the exception of one who has caused many students to relocate to other schools and still remains while the principal supports her for god only knows why. I would highly recommend the school if not for poor leadership and problems being swept under the rug instead of handled.

I put my child in this school because the class sizes were small and I figured more individualized attention. My child has asd and they had no idea what to do and initially kicked us out after 6 months of going there because giving her a somewhat different curriculum was to much work for them and the staff was really rude to us. Most of the children that go here the staff knows because they go to church there and its very clique. If your child had a disability especially don't put yourself threw putting them here.

Small class sizes means more teacher attention, more playing time on sports teams, less chance of getting Covid/other sicknesses, and the Pastor calls you by name and is one of the kindest souls I’ve met. If you don’t believe me listen to his online sermons…you’ll see. Also, the new principal has 30 years of experience. I’m sad to hear of negative experiences at the school, and hope someday forgiveness and grace can be given, but at least changes have been made. There is growth and so many good things too.

Immanuel’s small classes and dedicated teachers work tirelessly to enable my niece & nephew’s educational goals. This small school creates a very safe and well communicated teaching. Most classes are 15-20 people giving experienced educators ample time to educate and enhance (their goals!) not politics or many odd subjects not close to STEM. An on-site learning center (daycare) enables your child to be safe until you can have them back home! Very helpful. My relatives benefit from being a member of the church that supports the school. This leads to costs of top quality education around $2k. Goes down with more children. Worth so much more!! (They told us of financial aid that could help many, just ask!) We’d welcome you, stop by.