Highland Park Elementary School

J.R. Baker is the best in Columbia. my brother went there both my sons and now my granddaughter. thanks Baker Elementary

My children have been attending this school for two years. We are very happy with the education our kids are getting. I feel the teachers are at this school because they truley want to be teachers. They are eager to help and welcome any comments or questions we have. They encourage parent envolvement which is vital to a successful education. The teachers and staff at J Brown are helpful and friendly and are an asset to my children and this community. I look forward to the next two years and am thankful and greatfull for the great job everyone does!

This school has been amazing with my 5 kids. They are kind and caring. Riverside is a wonderful school..

This school has caused great psychological trauma for my child that she now has to take therapy. When she went to this school she was a very bright child and really wanted to make friends with everyone she met. Unfortunately most of her classmates were very unwelcoming towards her. The teachers also showed huge favoritism when it came to grading. She became introverted and suicidal in her teenage years even after we left the school. I was deeply shocked to find out about this only after we moved away since she had told us she was fine in Agathos. But now that I think about it she was always crying about not making friends and how mean they were to her after she came home. Currently she is doing much better but will always have an introverted personality that she can’t get rid of. So overall I wouldn’t recommend this school in anyway.

This school was, I thought, a caring Christian school. It is why my children were enrolled there initially. How ironic that they do not practice what they preach! They punish students for the things they do themselves REGULARLY. Bullying is left unchecked for "certain" students (see: financially, locally or politically connected). The rest of the mass of students are held to another standard completely. My child has never been the same since going to that school. The treatment my child received at the hands of both students and administrators has kept an arms length pattern of behavior ever since when meeting new people in the area. Trust has been broken with the local community in the area in my child's mind, and finding the ability to have a normal school experience has been elusive ever since. The level of sadness and depression that has taken place in my child since the experience at this school has been nothing short of catastrophic. I DO NOT recommend this school unless you like hypocritical Pharisees teaching your child.