Durant Road Middle

Teachers are very engaged with parents. Very safe school environment. My son went there all 3 years and never had any issues with the school. If you do look at charter schools, I would suggest you visit them to understand their environments which are very different in structure and diversity. We had no issues at Durant Middle School and found it a great experience.

Went here for all of middle, teachers were a hit or miss, they would have annual award ceremony’s for “best academic students” really just the teachers pets. Principal left without a trace middle of the year. Would not recommend

Absolutely TERRIBLE. I do not recommend this school, do yourself a favor and look into some of the amazing charter schools in the area. They actually care about your child, Durant Road Middle does not.

Great things are happening at Durant since changes in admin. Awesome faculty, smart student body.

I approached the school year knowing it would be very different from my children’s previous experiences at school, but wholly unprepared for the atmosphere here. Students are out of control. Discipline and order are scarce. Violence erupts often. Perpetrators lie and avoid punishment, or worse accuse the victim of racism and get the victim in trouble. There are no books and it is difficult to access assignments and curriculum as each teacher uses a different program (Google classroom, Weebly, handouts, etc.) The curriculum is “project based” so students are grouped together to complete work. This makes it difficult for more advanced or diligent children to get work done because they have to babysit their peers. Teachers struggle to keep order in their classrooms as outbursts are frequent. Not all of this is the fault of the teachers and staff, because many of these students have zero home training to speak of, but they fail to enact stricter policies on conduct, and so the students continue their poor behavior. Durant used to be a great school, but as demographics in the area changed, so did the caliber of student arriving to be educated. I would avoid this school, if at all possible. If not, prepare your child to work in a very distracting environment and to defend themselves if necessary.