Laura B Negley Elementary School

Teachers are pretty awesome that's why I rated them so high! Front office is the worst I have ever experienced... very rude! It's sad these are the attitudes you experience when you first walk into the school.

The 22-23 school year was great. Our daughter was so excited to go back and the 23-24 year has been an absolute flop. As a parent I feel so incredibly disconnected with my child's school. They say it's to make things safer but it makes parents feel completely unaware of their child's environment. Since school began this they have taken complete liberties with release procedures changing them multiple times with NO NOTICE. Today our children were released 15 minutes later than normal with zero explanation. I am disgusted with how Principal Dipalma has been completely absent outside of her weekly pre fabricated emails that completely lack any sort of explanation for her constantly changing procedures. They are hiding behind 'district policy' and keeping parents in the dark. Shame.

This school is not above villifying and accusing children of violence when the faculty don't pay attention to where they are going. My child is friends with a kid who was wrongfully accussed of violence and it has affected him greatly. My confidence in this school was already low, but it has managed to fall below the floor with this incident. We will likely be transferring out.

Very overpriced with under paid staff. Lesson plans in at least one of the classes is more of a formality then something teachers actually stick to. Favorites was also a big part where kids who were more of a "problem" were left to someone else because a teacher wouldn't want to deal with them. Decorating the hall was more important than helping take care of kids in the same room. More of a daycare than a preschool were children are learning.