Dresden Elementary School

This school is like goldilocks not too bad not too good, but the kids hate it

I like this school. My kids love to school.

We’ve had a wonderful experience with Plumbrook Elementary this year! We moved from another school district and into UCS at the beginning of this year, and this year in UCS has been great, and we’re so glad to be apart of UCS! The new principal who also joined this year is absolutely wonderful and our daughter lover her. The new superintendent has done so much for UCS and is wonderful as well! Our 5th grader has never been so engaged and excited for school before. Her teacher Mrs. Pacifico is by far our favorite teacher our daughter has ever had. She is wonderful with communicating and keeping us informed and was very attentive to our daughter’s needs especially with being at a completely new school and district! The school did an amazing job helping our daughter reach her academic goals as well as all the goals for speech therapy. If there was ever a problem or something that needed to be addressed and worked on, we were also informed of that too. We loved how seriously safety and bullying was taken too. Any unkind words or problems between students were immediately addressed as soon as an adult was notified of a problem. It feels comforting that this school actually does things to solve and prevent any further problems or bullying between students. There were many opportunities for families and parents to be involved and participate in school events and outside school events for the kids to have fun and for the parents to meet one another too!

I do remember the years that Wiley was thriving as stated by others. Today’s Wiley is much different. Yes, there are still some outstanding educators, but sadly Candace, the principal, has absolutely no business working with children, especially those with different learning needs and styles despite diagnoses. The growing diversity across UCS and the differentiation required is NOT being addressed by the current principal and some educators. They speak a good game to cover their behinds, but they have no grasp of reality and act as if they are still in the 1950s. If your child is a robot, then this school is for you. If your child and you live in the real world, you might want to think twice.

This experience at this school has been nothing but frustrating yr after yr. My kid has been bullied since kindergarten, 4yrs later it's still happening. I've told the principal and teachers but they refuse to contact the parents of the bullies. There have been other issues as well. I would NEVER recommend this school to anyone.