Unm Mimbres School

My son just finished 5th grade at this school. I took the time to have him transferred to this school in Kindergarten because of the 50/50 dual language program it was supposed to offer. Needless to say my son finished all 6 years there and is no better off with his Spanish than he was when he started. Sure, I teach him at home but I wanted him to learn proper Spanish grammar which didn't happen. Out of all the years he was at the school, only his 1st and 5th grade teachers focused on teaching the 50/50 curriculum. The gifted teacher did not speak Spanish at all. The principal only focused on test scores. It just seemed that the school went downhill from there. I can honestly say that in my opinion and based on my experience, 99% of the teachers at Longfellow Elementary are not there for the students. It has been a very disappointing experience.

We switched our child out of this school after a terrible 1'st grade experience. Our opinion of the principle, Ms. Weihe, is that she lacked integrity, and we felt she tried to bypass accountability for our child's welfare while gaslighting us. Our child's teacher was teaching a classroom of over 20 students without a secondary teacher helping them. There were multiple children in the classroom with clear emotional issues, and there were frequent reports of children fighting with each-other. Her methods of dealing with children were consistently punitive. Almost every week it seemed like something went wrong in our child's classroom or at recess. One day a child cracked his head open and was bleeding from his head. Ambulances came to the school to take the child to the hospital. Not a word about it was said. The teacher only expressed that the children had "a tough week" and she wanted to give them a pizza party at the end of the week. Our child started hating school and even expressed suicidal language early on in the school year. We wanted to get our child moved to a different classroom but were told it was not going to happen despite all of these things. The classroom reached temperatures of 90+ degrees early in the school year. This year we have found a much better school, but we are still dealing with the fallout of the damage caused by last year. There are so many things that were wrong about MVES that I couldn't possibly put them all here. There are 'some' great teachers at the school, but unfortunately that doesn't make the school better as a whole.

Terrible, the school sucks, the staff and teachers are terrible, theyre rude, disrespectful, and honestly not smart. The communication between the teachers and families suck, and to be respectful, most of the staff are stupid. I don't know how they got a job there, but if they're rude to the families I cannot imagine how they are towards the children. My younger brother goes there and he gets bullied almost every day and the teachers has yet to do anything about it, please get new staff. I do not recommend this school at all, please do not take your children here.

My childs experience at this school has been wonderful. He has made life long friends. Educationally he is challenged. Being able to practice our faith is a priority.

This school has a strong academic program. Our daughter just graduated from St. Charles and is well prepared for her several honors classes she will be taking at her high school next year. The middle school teachers not only prepared my daughter academically, but helped her grow in her faith.