Buena Vista Elementary School

My daughter and our family absolutely LOVE Brushy Creek and all the staff!! Everyone is kind and inviting. The kids are happy to be learning, teachers happy to be teaching. Brushy Creek is a Great School!

Wonderful gem of a school in the city of Greenville. We loved to this side of GVL from Simpsonville and I have to say, this school has been a fantastic place for my three children. I’ve been fortunate to have kids at Mitchell Rd Elem for 8 years now and have reaped the benefits of a school that values not just academics, but also social emotional growth. This school is also smaller than other city of GVL schools around it. The faculty has a therapeutic and trust based bend with discipline which I have loved.There are two gardens where the students have science lab. The students were able to be hands on in creating the learning lab garden and it is just beautiful. One of my students is a special education student and they shine brightly in this area as well. They have supported and helped her to grow more than I thought possible.Mitchell Rd Elem is a National Blue Ribbon School, as well. Can’t speak highly enough!

Good luck with this school! We've worked with 4 teacher. All appeared worn down, impatient, defensive, anxious and burned out. Maybe there could work on teacher appreciation and encourage more teacher self-care and change their focus. Teachers here "teach the test." That might be good very temporarily, but good luck when your child hits high school and a decent university, let alone the work place. Jobs these days need creative problem solvers that think for themselves. Office staff are just plain unprofessional-roll their eyes, say inappropriate and share unwanted advice. I heard them gossiping about moms in the back. This school is completely void of joy. Joy is tge basis of all learning. Their little model "leader in me" is based off Steven Covey's 7 habits for kids. Uh, as a social scientist with a Master's from a top university and even math teacher graduate. This theme is developmentally all wrong. Plus they are rigid about it all. I got the impression it's for show. Look at other nearby schools and you'll see better mottos. No, Woodland won't make your child a leader. I've never met a happy person here or even a patient one. Try another school if you can. Oh and it's overcrowded and huge.

This school is easily one of the worst places you could send your child. They barely teach the required subjects unless God personally signed off on the lesson, it just doesn’t happen.They even decided I was autistic because of my eyesight, which is wild considering that’s not how anything works. And instead of actually helping, they stuck me in the back of the class like that would magically improve my vision. Stunning logic. Because of their neglect, I failed the grade and had to repeat it, not due to ability, but because I literally couldn’t see the board and they couldn’t be bothered to care.If you want your child to learn anything other than confusion and disappointment, I’d look somewhere else. This school couldn’t teach a fish to swim even if the Bible told them how.

Would not recommend. I went here for three years, and it severely declined over the years. The teacher got worse, and leadership decreased, and they seemed less caring about learning and the bullying because my friend was a special needs kid who got bullied so much every day. I tried to stop, but it just got worse, so I would not recommend this school, and they are facing allegations for bad things and making news headlines nver sendf yourn child here, you will severely regret it. Never go to the middle school or high school; it is worse.