Brook Park Memorial Elementary School

Have 2 children who go here. Total of three years in so far. Very pleased all around. They care, they listen. My kids love the school and teachers. One of my kids do have a I.E.P. I feel they truly do care about it. They work very hard with her.

My son has been going here since PreK. Every year he has had bully issues and the school seems to not care until he is fed up with it and finally defends himself or retaliates, resulting in him being suspended and the others having no repercussions of note. The teachers rave about how smart and well behaved he is. The zero bullying policy is an absolute joke. Today, a girl in a higher grade punched him multiple times before school started. He tried getting her attention a few minutes later and now suddenly my son allegedly is punching a girl. My son isn't perfect but he knows I'd put him 6ft under figuratively for laying a finger on a female. He gets suspended so I go up and request to see video of the incident to which I get a huge run around about I have to request it when such and such is in the next day to suddenly I'll have to contact the legal department to request it. Then when the security officer who handles the incident is talking to me, she claims my son never said anything about the girl hitting him and in the same sentence admits to knowing he was hit. At this point, I just want the info to request the video and a withdrawal form that they supposedly didn't have any of until I said he is withdrawing from the district once I can make the appropriate judgement of the incident from video rather than a bunch of hearsay from the other student's friends and supposedly the only parent to witness the incident. Let's not even get started on other issues like no crossing guards at a crosswalk where a kid got hit just a few years ago from a lack of crossing guards or lack of traffic direction at drop off and pick up.

Aweful. Pulled my child out in less than a month due to staff interactions, my child being Injured repeatedly. Management’s obvious inability to work with children, and my child left in a soiled diaper for more than 4 hours. Save your money

Bullying by teachers and students. Adults favor children and target others. Terrible environment.

I give the Academy of Saint Adalbert the highest score possible! We cannot imagine our son attending another school. This school is a true GEM! It truly is the best learning environment for your child!!!

I am writing on behalf of someone else that is too afraid to "rock the boat" as a foreigner here. There was a case of bullying (and the school's response to a serious medical issue) that was brought up to the administration and after weeks of back and forth emails and "meetings" with the mom, the administration's resolution was to expel the "whistle blower" and concerning situation. This was after having 2 or 3 meetings and several emails essentially not related to the bullying. Suddenly it was a concern for the student's grades as a first year student there, of which his previous school records were normal, and the first 2 - 3 semesters at this school were normal, but the final semester was on a downward spiral. There was barely and notifications or concerns from the school to the parent, Well there was 1 teacher and the parent corrected that issue. The grades and issues at hand were brought up conveniently after concerns for the child's well being was brought up after an incident at the school with another student lead him in the hospital with a concussion. This was an awful experience for the child and the mother. The child had this injury as a direct result of another student messing with him. The medical advice was to take it easy and slow for next few weeks. How can a child recover when they are being stressed by administration and their actions. There was no course of action from the school to help the child or offer tutoring. They questioned the student if they even wanted to be at this school during one of the meetings, which lead the child to spiral emotionally, especially when the asked him if he even wanted to be at such an elite school, if not that's ok, its not for everyone. Completely unprofessional and inappropriate. Oh to add insult to injury when the final determination was made to kick him out of the school for the following year, he received a packet about a week later stating who his teachers will be and courses etc. How does that level of unprofessionalism happen at a school that is supposed to be so elite and great with education.