Newfound School

We have loved our Mitchell Community, which is a caring, engaging and loving group of teachers, parents and the larger community. This Great Schools data is a little outdated. We are seeing academic growth for our scholars and lots of opportunities for the kids to participate in development opportunities with arts. The PTA is amazing and does so much to help create fun events and memories for our students. I know it just isn’t the same at other schools so I’m thankful to be part of this community.

Dr. Badillo only cares about herself and is very rude. She think she’s right about everything. I would not recommend this school if she is principal.

The teacher really know their students and provide help for student progress

This year has been the worst experience. My child started 3rd grade with 3 teachers. One for home room and math, one for science and social studies and one for reading and language arts. The science and social studies teacher was taken from 3rd grade and moved to 5th. This left the 3rd graders with no one teaching them these subjects. After receiving several progress reports and a report card with missing grades, I reached out to his hometown teacher several times. There was no response or communication. I then reached out to his reading teacher only to find out his homework teacher/math teacher has resigned. Now he is left with just the reading and language arts teacher. There was no proper communication. My son still has missing grades but yet he is expected to take these tests and pass. This is not setting my child up for success. This is a set up for failure. It’s extremely frustrating. I will move to avoid him having to attend this school next year.

A once-reliable school is now expanding with non-functional systems, arrogant teachers (most, not all), declining academic performance, and overwhelming class sizes. No one pays attention to each child unless you are the child of an affluent person. Sadly, the costs and vibe about the school do not necessarily match the actual service delivery. The Academic Visitation should be an opportunity to listen to the teacher and, together, discuss the child's education, but it is not structured and not very good use of time for most interactions. It is instead a session where a teacher is asking a child where the missing marks are, interrogating a child and you are more less like a witness to the interrogation between the teacher and the child. It is so sad. I just hope the systems and the once Glory of Green Hill is restored and the children are supported to have a bright future, as is we shall continue to be in desperate situations as parents, especially parents who all they can do is to provide the best affordable education to their children. So sad to see the once powerful school decline that bad!