Barack Obama Elementary School

Walnut Park is a growing community based school. Pros: caring, dedicated teachers and staff; extracurricular activities for students at all grade levels; academics are measured by growth; lots of parental involvement opportunities; lots of access to technology and curriculum resources Cons: the discipline system is unfair (some students seem to be able to do anything they want, others get in trouble for trivial things), lots of standardized testing, many parents don't participate, the extra long school day (7:30-4:30) and long school year (mid August - late June) means that the students get "burnt out", big emphasis on test scores

Our school is under construction for improvements. We have a new Instructional Leaders and several ambitious Instructional Facilitators. Our Instructional Leaders is making progress to execute us to a 5STAR school. I like the new bright classrooms and elevator that is being implemented to provide a comfortable environment. Our school is improving by enlisting new advocates for our children and providing continuous professional development.

I went here from kindergarten to second grade. When I first started, some random girl pinched me. I don't remember much from this school, but my advice is don't let anyone get close to you on your first day of kindergarten.