Oak Ridge Elementary School

School is super dumpy (high school too)...they ask the community$$ to fix up the trailers (moldy & gross). They need to level this school!! Starting with the front office staff, who are rude to students AND parents AND they are even rude to the teachers. Not sure where all of this displaced authority came from for the front office staff to behave this way. Autistic kids are bulled relentlessly and then when they defend themselves, they are sent to the office instead of the bully. Barely any tax $ makes it way to this school. Poor school safety measures (other than a Sheriff stationed between the 2 schools). Nothing state of the art about this school---POOR technology, grounds are a mess. Most teachers do not go the extra mile for students struggling unless you approach them multiple times (even then you'll be lucky if they follow through)---just too many to a classroom.

This so-called "academy" does not deliver academics in the slightest; supervision in dorms is abysmal and military training is a ruse. What this school cares about is getting money: dysfunctional is an understatement -- not the kids, the school. A tragic mistake to have sent our child here.

It’s a boarding school. Which is great, because I needed to focus on growing up, not all the nonsense of community daycare. I was able to focus on academics and extracurriculars. That’s what kids (should) do! College prep + boarding, is a pretty great way to prep for dorm life and just focusing on the higher expectations of higher education.And, of course, I have wonderful memories of it. ORMA didn’t just educate me, it helped raise me.