Pershing Middle School

Worst experience with HISD! ALL of the staff from the front desk to the teachers to the principals are especially rude and lack empathy. As soon as you walk into the school it feels dark and depressing. As soon as I could get my child out of this school I did. The Principal seems to be there for a paycheck and has a bad attitude, which makes sense since that is the way the staff members act as well. My kids were depressed and hated going to school here, I wished I would have pulled them out sooner.

Please Choose better for your children. The staff is rude and there is constant bullying. As a parent be prepared to fight for your child if they attend this school because it is designed to fail these children. Choose better for your children, they deserve better.

We have been very impressed with Pershing for the two years that our child has attended. You can tell that staff and principal care about the school and it's students. I also appreciate the principal's transparency. The PTO is very engaged in providing what the school needs to improve each year. The few times I have had a question or problem, I have received a response within a day. We didn't even apply to any other middle schools for my younger child, who will be joining Pershing in the Fall!

A very inclusive environment with encouragement from some wonderful staff, but I feel as if there is a bit of a rough environment where swearing, racial slurs, ect. and I feel as though there isn't enough monitoring on top of other items in the school and one last thing, I believe they follow the policing theory of broken windows and warning and detentions are being handed out for the littlest or stupidest reasons for example, standing up to get water during lunch when you may not supposed to stand up and the child may not know may not know. Signing Off, Anonymous

I really liked Pershing when my child began. It started out strong in 6th grade. By 7th grade, the school’s population increased beyond its capacity. It happened again in 8th. By 8th grade, the kids were feeling the impact of an over crowded school. There are just way too many kids who attend. I did hear that teachers were overwhelmed with poor student behavior as well. We heard this from the principal formally in a meeting, and from the students as well because their teachers told them all the time. They have a notable fine arts program but some of those classes were overcrowded, too. Creative writing had 40 students in one class that wasn’t designed to hold that many kids in a classroom. The teacher was frustrated because there was no way to create a space for that many kids to write in a quiet environment. My child left creative writing even though they loved it before that year of an overcrowded class.