Wallace Elementary School

I am both a teacher and mom at this school. My children (currently 4th and 6th grade) have attended the school since they were 3 years old. I have taught 15 out of my 18 years at LHE as well. The school and community is extremely welcoming and supportive. We all understand that the main goal is to educate the whole child. Both my kids have learned academic and social-emotional skills. I am also a PTA member and see first hand how hard our community works to support teachers and students. We do have challenges that have been hard in the past few years (pandemic, discipline, etc), but we work together to ensure our mission and focus doesn't change.

Clean classrooms. Clean Restrooms. Awesome playground. Cool cafeteria.

WRE is an aesthetically pleasing school that continues to squeak by on it’s past excellent reputation. Dig deeper you will find average (at best) academics, teachers that openly cater to students of the Principals favorite parents, problematic administrative leadership, and the most attention seeking and atrocious parent community. Parents here make the day-to-day volunteering and donating miserable and the overall parental school experience insufferable for the silent majority. Academically - when you look at the testing data and control for economic status, parent education, and race - there is nothing at all to differentiate this school from any other public school in the district or the state. Do not move to the neighborhood for WRE, as so many do (self included), you’ll find yourself disappointed and considering private school.

Thankfully Principal Bahena was fired mid school year last year after spring break she was gone. The school under her leadership went from a B average rating under Principal Davis leadership to an F rating 59 out of 100 with Bahena.Lack of experience and unprofessional with low ethics in Stolen Valor claiming Veteran status whilst she had never even completed bootcamp. FYI: High School ROTC does not qualify as VETERAN status. With Bahena at the helm Highland Meadows received the low performance underachieving letter/status allowing any student the opportunity to transfer to other schools to jump ship from that disaster.