Mark Twain Elementary School

We love Eugene Field. The teacher turnover is minimal which says a lot about a school. Every teacher our children have had are amazing. Extremely knowledgeable with academics but also child development. Our children have excelled in this environment. Such a wonderful community and multiple extra curricular activities.

I have been very satisfied with this school for many years now (this will be my child third year there) and would rate it five stars but, not this year. The previous principle Mr. Randy Brewer ran an excellent school, and allowed the parents to be very involved with the school. However he retired and now there is a new principle (Melinda Elms). By the end of the second week of school she has personally insulted me by assuming I must be a single mother with custody issues, because I enjoy walking my child to class as I have always done. What she asked me about thou none of it being the case is absolutely rude, and if any of it was true it would absolutely be none of her business. The school preaches about how important parent involvement is and building strong relationships with the parents. But they are literally pushing us out the door. I'm not allowed to go into the school at all which upsets me not only has it now broken my tradition with my child, ( As I went to this school also , and we live about five houses up from the school and my mother did the same with me) it seems so wrong that if my minor child is in the care of these people during the day not only should I be allowed in these premises but I should be welcomed . This really doesn't make me want to be involved with the school at all. As they want us to be" involved" but obviously their actions send an entirely different message. I would like to know their reasoning for how a mother walking their child to school and their classroom affects the child or any other child's education.

We are halfway through our first year at Cleveland Elementary, and we couldn’t be happier with our experience. Moving from a state with significantly higher testing and performance benchmarks, we had lofty expectations for public education. Cleveland Elementary has not only met those expectations but has exceeded them in every way.The educators and staff are highly engaged and deeply motivated to help students excel beyond their grade-level benchmarks. At the same time, they approach each child's unique needs with care and thoughtfulness. The level of parent involvement and the faculty's enthusiastic support of it have been nothing short of extraordinary. This partnership between parents and teachers is what truly sets Cleveland Elementary apart.The school radiates a spirit of progress, continuously striving to improve and reach new heights for its students. Words like "good enough" or "settling" are simply not part of the vocabulary here. From the dedicated teachers and staff to the enthusiastic students and supportive parents, everyone is united in the pursuit of excellence. Cleveland Elementary is truly a remarkable place to learn and grow!

this principal dosent let students talk she interrupted over my child. she put words into my child’s mouth and told the teacher that my child had said those words she got all up in her face and my child said she didn’t want to talk about it without a adult because she didn’t not feel comfortable in this situation. Amberly Ellison claims she teaches spanish all she does is she’s on her phone and talks about the academic honesty policy she dosent even know spanish. I would not recommend going here unless you wnat ur kids in a assign asylum i highly doubt recommend wendy mounger she is a great teacher and great to the kids.

I'm a student at the John Rex JUNIOR HIGH, this review is not towards the elementary. But towards the Junior high. First off, the principal/teachers. The principal at this school is in my opinion not good, though she can be good at times, she doesn't handle situations well. For example, I'm a very accident prone person, I get injured a lot. one time I bruised my tailbone and sprained my ankle playing soccer, when I went to the doctor because it hurt to much to move, the doctor told me I needed to stay inside and not participate in recess, next day I stayed inside the office for that day. The principal walked in and kicked me out of the office and said I was "fine and the office is only for sick people". She kicked me out the office 8 times during my recovery period, the checkup after the deadline, the doctor told me that I was actually worse. Another problem with the principal is that she does basically nothing about bullying. For example, one day I had a not so good haircut, that day I wore a hoodie, during a transition between classes, a student tried pulling off my hoodie and ended up lacerating my eye leading to permanent damage, when me and my parents asked the principal about it, she avoided doing anything about us and just told she'd look into it. The student never got in trouble. She does nothing about anybody who bullies me as well. Next, the electives. We're over here funding unnecessary electives like esports, doing the math, each PC could cost about $1000, and we have almost ten. Not including monitors, mouses, keyboards, and pads. This elective is teaching us nothing useful in life. While when we moved into the basement of the Carnegie building, the performing arts elective which is what I do for a living and plan to major in and do professionally in the future was abolished. Though eSports is fun, it doesn't teach us any life skills, though it could be considered bias, we don't have Spanish, which I think is a necessary for schools because it's USEFUL for people to at least know two languages. Next is the building, to keep it short. We practically live in a basement, I shouldn't walk out of the building and be blinded by the sunlight, that just sounds wrong. I could write at least two more reviews on this school. The only good thing about this school is the nice teachers.