Ps 86 Kingsbridge Heights

Ma Sanchez has poor communication skills! I won’t be sending my kid here much longer.

Not a good school. Lots of bullying

This is the worst place to put your child the staff she be fierce starting with the parent coordinator to the principal

PS 340 is an exceptional school in the Bronx! It offers rigorous and impressive reading, writing and math curriculums as well as many enrichment opportunities for students. All of the staff members are very welcoming and supportive of parents and their families. I looked up their achievement on state tests, and they perform better than other schools in the district. A wonderful school to send your child too!

I attended this school from kindergarten to fourth grade a few years back, I am now entering senior year in high school. While my anecdote may be considered outdated or unhelpful since it was this long ago, I still want to make my experience known, as I did not have the chance to voice any of these experiences as a child. The school offered absolutely no support for me as a neurodivergent child, and incidents with bullying were happening on a daily basis which were never properly addressed at all. I was undergoing constant harassment from peers which was never addressed and was constantly swept under the rug. On top of that, I was targeted and reprimanded constantly by teachers for “behavioral issues” that were either non-issues that stemmed from autism and adhd symptoms (fidgeting, stimming, misunderstanding instructions because of auditory processing issues), or were genuine incidents of me acting out in response to the bullying and harassment. Instead of trying to work with me and my mother as a child to address my issues, it would instead be sidelined in favor of simply being labeled as a “bad child” and treated like that as a result. While this is due to a combination of both elementary school experiences and home experiences, the extent of the neglect that I went through in this school was bad enough that it has resulted in me being medically diagnosed with complex trauma disorders stemming partly from my experiences here. On top of that, the curriculum was very clearly not catered to certain types of children, and I suffered academically as a result by being chronically behind in core subjects such as math, which was made evident by the disparity between the scope of my knowledge and the scope of the knowledge of other kids at the school i had transferred to for fifth grade. While I cannot confirm or deny if the school has truly gotten better, I feel it is important to know the history that this school has when it comes to these issues.

St. Philip Neri is an okay school. I personally had a good experience going there but many of my friends did not. The way that the recent administration handled disciplinary actions was terrible and often biased by the principal's past perceptions/views of you. Barely over half of the teachers were good some were alright, and there were a large minority with short tempers and others who would drift off topic when teaching. The school also needs to improve its afterschool activities and such. With new funding from the archdiocese I expected that clubs and activities would improve but they didn't. Of course, the school had other problems with structure and stuff but still. There are counselors for kids that need them which is good for mental health. My advice to any students/parents reading this is make sure you value your own personal journey if you go here, if you want to go to a super good school then going here won't be enough you have to work hard for it.