Orvis Risner Elementary School

Ida Freeman Elementary is a wonderful school with a welcoming atmosphere, dedicated teachers, and strong leadership. They truly care about every student’s growth and success. We’ve had a great experience and are grateful to be part of such a supportive community!

This school ignored me asking for help when my son was in second grade and third grade and he was beat up by 3 boys each time. The school is filthy and the bathrooms are atrocious. I worked as a substitute for the school and was fired when I called the police regarding my son being jumped by the boys mentioned, and the principal (Wartley) lied and told them I wasn’t complying and wouldn’t bring my son to school for them to investigate. I wasn’t going to bring my son to be put back into the class room with the same boys that Jumped him but I DID bring him to speak with the principal and assistant but they wouldn’t speak to me and had the office girls tell me she was in a meeting. The school is failing for a reason. I’ve asked for a transfer (but wasn’t given one) to get my son out even with “school choice” as an option. They don’t supply tutoring or continual monitoring so the kids aren’t learning and are failing state testing scores. This school needs a huge revamping. The majority of the kids are from very low income families and given no regard for their education or their futures. As someone who worked at the school to see what was going and had been a parent of a child here for 4 yrs, I can tell you the score they receive is very well deserved.

My nephew did not learn one thing at this school. The school is focused on “looking good” but not actually teaching. He came to the school he is currently at and is having to repeat the 2nd grade. When he came here he didn’t know how to read. No one told us that from Will Rogers. That’s ridiculous.

Excellent. We love Russell Dougherty and would strongly recommend to other parents living in Edmond.

I am very disappointed. Kid would come home crying everyday from being bullied. Some kids there are very rude, racist, sexist, etc. I had asked some other parents and they were having the exact same problem and were hearing it from their kid. The school presents itself as a kind Christ-centered community. From what i’ve seen and heard, it is the exact opposite. Just from being in their chapel, I see unfairness, exclusion, and pain. I am very disappointed and would not recommend at all.