Southern Middle School

Aberdeen Elementary is a school I definitely wouldn’t recommend ANY parent. This school has put my child through risk, depression, anxiety, and more. She would come home to me crying about the kids there picking at her and beating on her. I reached out to her teachers MULTIPLE TIMES and they said that they would handle the situation. It stayed the same the whole year. My daughter was so happy and carefree before she attended this school. I did not have the choice to switch her school because of our financial situation, and I needed her to get a good education. She is in the 3rd grade mind you, and all this was happening to her. My daughter says the school food they had provided was expired and inedible most of the time and she couldn’t even eat. She’d come home STARVING each day and it has worried me a lot. My daughter has told me that her teacher had physically hurt students, yell at the class, and even use inappropriate language around them. He would even pick on the kids too. I am not writing this review as a hate speech at all whatsoever but to share MY experience. I hope this school improves next year and handles situations like this better in the future.

We have 2 children at SPES who initially attended a local private school for multiple years of preschool and kindergarten. We are pleased with the experienced teachers at SPES, as well as the great ratio of students to teachers and the availability of Pre-K on campus. Our child was able to be screened for the gifted program and for speech therapy easily and quickly. The new building is exceptional, especially the media center. The school leadership and teachers communicate well with parents. Our children have gotten out of the neighborhood bubble and now have friends with different abilities, skin color, family makeup, and financial situations. This was not the case in the private school they attended. Our children do not get assigned homework (yet?).

Our 4 year old child has been attending there for over a year, he looks forward to going to school each day. He advanced to kindergarten this year and is learning to read and write (in script too) already. He reads to us at bed time! He learns about our government, geography and history too. He loves his classmates and teachers.

We started at EDS Kindergarten year & are sadly moving states with my son finishing his 2nd grade year. I honestly can not say enough amazing things about this school, it is truly such a gem. Dr. Connett has done the best job shaping the school into such a nurturing and engaging environment for the kids. If you are looking for an elementary school in the area I can guarantee you this is the best one!