Triangle Math and Science Academy

The school is trying to force HS students to take AP classes whether it is appropriate or not. It is great that they offer AP classes but to attempt to force all students seems to go against providing an appropriate education for all.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a recent shift towards expansion compromising quality of education in this school. There is no Parent-Teacher Association, and parent grievances are ignored. There is no proper discussion or communication from the school on important decisions - for example, they decided to split 6th grade and rest of middle school in two different locations without considering the impact for the 6th graders who would miss out on advanced classes/clubs/band/sports that are part of the middle school experience. Expansion means there is a need for more teachers, but unfortunately good teachers are hard to find in the current market and existing teachers seem so overworked with large class sizes (close to 30 students per home room). There is more focus on practicing repeatedly for EOG tests, not much focus on teaching concepts or making things interesting for kids to learn. Kids spend more time on chromebooks in school and less time interacting with other kids or teachers. Most classrooms don't have windows and the play area is small/overcrowded considering there are close to 1000 kids in the building. My elementary kid does not even get a snack break after lunch (11am) and comes home extremely tired and hungry. There are no school buses, and the worse part is the carpool pickup time in the evening which typically takes 30-40 min waiting on the road outside the school campus (there are 9 grades in same building). There are frequent half-day/early release days which makes things even harder as we have to take time off from work for couple of hours in the middle of the day to pickup kids.

My child was straight AB honor roll student at his previous Charter before starting here at TMSA. I feel like there’s a lack of connection and education with the teachers to the students. All they do is sit in front of the computer on IXL for learning. The school is solely focused on test scores, only, and I feel that it’s more to it than testing the highest in the district or state. These children need more Academic understanding and their work and lessons being taught. I wouldn’t recommend anyone bringing their children to the school. I’ve had to literally hound them about parent teacher conferences. As they would never ever have any availability and scheduling, but give you the runaround about scheduling. At my child’s previous charter school it was no issue and scheduling any parent teacher conference, and they were always willing to help. But since he started, here has been nothing but chaos. I feel like a lack of care for the students and their education. i’m becoming super Duper frustrated and a lot of these children are already behind due to the era of the pandemic, so why stressed them further in their academics when all they’re doing is trying their best and putting in their effort. Am planning on taking my child out of TMMSA this year and sending him back to his previous where they were excelling. The only reason why my child was going to the school was due to the convenience of it being close to our home, and I was under the impression that it was a great stem school. However, I know the blinding truth but it is not a great school. Please send your children to a better charter or school as this one is not a good school. Not just my opinion it has been other parents I heard from that felt this way as well.

TMSA used to be good butnow it is just a very beloe average school wirh terrible quality of educators. If you understand what some of those international teachers say consider yourself lucky. Advamced core classes are taught by such inexperienced teachers for whom teaching is just maling kids sit infront of IXL the whole time. The schools admin is a joke. Their priority is expansion at the expense of quality. Those test score you see are from a predominant ethnicity from high earning neighborhood with supportive homes. 0% of that can be credited to school..Please stay away of possible from a parent of 6 years!!!

TMSA Triangle has an incredible culture of excellence and sense of pride. The administrators have years and years of experience as do most of the teachers. When you drive up you can tell the children are happy by all the laughter and play!