Johnson Park School

The school changed principles every year. You can tell the overall school's academic performance has declined so much during recent years. New teachers and admins kept coming and leaving. They are no longer on par with the other schools in nearby districts. I agree with the most of the previous reviews, except that the school is becoming even worse for gifted children. The teachers are more like robots. Plus, the staff members are extremely rude, and never care about your concerns.

The teachers are very dedicated and hardworking. But my three children have all struggled to learn Spanish, so I hired a local tutor. She informed me that most of her clientele is made up of CP students who aren't able to learn Spanish in the DLI program. I wasn't sure if it was just my children who are struggling, so I wrote to the principal and chair of the language department to request information about the students' overall standardized test scores. The older students take standardized tests. I was told this information is not released to parents, and that they compare the scores to the individual goals that they have set for the program. The program has chosen to teach mathematics in Spanish, which I believe may be the problem - so many students struggle to learn math, so trying to also teach Spanish during this block may simply be too much.

We will be taking our child to a school that will better prepare our child for high school. We are new this year and are extremely disappointed with how the report cards are produced. The teachers just blurt out whatever is on their minds and are unaware that these reports will be carefully scrutinized by high schools. They are sloppily written and don't take into account the entire term, hyperfocusing on the last two weeks or so leading up to the writing of the report card. The problem is that the teachers don't keep a systematic grading system, so they make comments inspired by how they're feeling at the moment they are writing the reports. It's ok not to have grades, but there should be a fair system for creating report cards that doesn't doom students for high school entry. No wonder high school placements are so horrific!

I really didn’t like this school I’m sure it’s good for some people but not for me they try to keep people through 21 which is fine as other schools do this as well but at the same time wether you need to stay or not they want to keep you there. There were a few good teachers but some absolutely sucked. I’m not going to say it’s awful the school but it was overrated. I agree with not using age but you can’t just use a mental health disorder or a disability either to justify everything. Every school has its flaws but this principle just couldn’t handle hearing her flaws and there was no cafeteria and library And they didn’t teach drivers or sex, Ed which is a big problem In my mind. I don’t get it But the graduation lasted for like seven years it was ridiculous It just kept going on and on who makes graduation that’s like five hours long. again, might be good for some people, but not me just overrated that’s all

During class, my daughter was speak out of turn too much (according to the teachers). she wasn't’ saying anything harmful, just the answers to the questions and little jokes, but only when the students were working on classwork. She was asked to go to the principals office because of this and had to miss recess. Normally, I would not have a problem with this, but the school knows that my daughter has ADHD and needs to move around during recess. She had a hard time the rest of the day because she was unable to get her energy out, and had a hard time containing it. Stuart does not understand neurodiversity. Also, i find many students at this school are incredibly bored during classes. Many days, my daughter comes home stressed or sometimes even crying because of a math quiz that she doesn’t understand or a large assignment due the next day. Overall, I do not recommend this school.