Live Oak Elementary School

Caraway is a hidden gem tucked away in the area. The other schools in the area have over double the students. You can not put a price on smaller class sizes and the environment of everyone knowing everyone. Caraway is a small and nurturing school. Academics are great but not too much pressure so the kids can still be kids (an issue friends from neighboring schools are having). They have chickens and goats that the kids help take care of. I cannot recommend enough.

Don’t waste your money. The middle school is really bad. They don’t offer good electives and STEM. Half the school-year, teachers spend reviewing previous year topics. The good middle school teachers left and they can’t get quality teachers so they ended up hiring anybody. The new Social Studies/English teacher thinks she’s all that, teaching ELA 8th graders in a foreign language pretending to be a foreigner. She even brags that a parent from her previous job tried to bribe her just to give their child a passing grade. But in reality I think she ended up at this school because no one would hire her and getting many complaints. The new middle school Religion/Spanish teacher thinks she’s teaching college students. She’s putting unrelated topics in quizzes so her students fail. Many subs have zero clue. The MAP scores are stagnant because children don’t learn. Some bad teachers yell at students, forgetting that they work for their families. Admin is pretty bad too. Then they ask for donations to support admin and overlooks their good teachers, so they all left.