White Rock Elementary School

We love LHE! I have two children attending and both of their teachers are absolutely amazing. My daughters LOVE them. Shout out to all of the phenomenal teachers and staff - helping shape these little minds. We owe it all to you and you deserve the world. THANK YOU!!

Based on a primary example, I should be giving the school one star but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt because they have so many great, positive qualities. The family engagement is high and the involvement can be seen everywhere. There are so many traditions and customs which unite the school. However the experience of having your child put in a closet as detention for not understanding their work and finishing it alone while their classmates go outside for recess is despicable. Not only was I her parent, but a loyal teacher/staff member. For this reason, I left and would suggest that teachers receive background checks, but more importantly, supervision. Although there are several amazing teachers, it takes only one bad apple. This will forever scar my daughter.

Our first year at Hexter felt like a bait and switch. We had a lot of issues with the new principal's receptiveness and generally found many of the families to be kind of...social climby and rude and their kids seem to act the same way, not really how I want my child to learn to act. Everyone echoes "parental involvement is amazeballs at Hexter!" but it is almost a competitive sport leaving little room for actual participation, for example, lunch signups go FAST and there's a baseline expectation to put in tons of volunteer work with people whose entire adult social life revolved around their childrens school with the principal at the center of it as the queen bee. And for what? The test scores are average and only slightly better than other DISD schools because the demographics. I am sure the new campus will be beautiful and I think we got unlucky that this was our first year during the building chaos but I'm not sure we will stick around to hope for it to be worth it.

This school has best experience for me. The teachers are very supportive and my kids love going to school. They also love their Principal. They have so many events for the students all year long!