Harbor Leadership Academy

Leander ISD is the worst - funny how they say they are a destination district. The district definitely changed after Troxell left, learning went from fun and educational to liberal lefist emotional indoctrination. No spelling is taught after 2nd grade, grades that were to start in 3rd grade went away, and the dress code is non-existent. What a horrible experience, our nation has doomed our next generation by plaguing this epidemic with no sytle of teaching the basics anymore.

Both our kids are attending CCMason for past 2 years. We were apprehensive of the school in the beginning given the ratings but our fears quickly vanished. The teachers are absolutely wonderful and genuinely care about the kids. Highly recommend this school for anyone looking for nourishing environment that fosters growth mindset.

Wonderful staff! They welcome parents to attend their kids during lunch time any day. They also have a very unique policy that if a child is in preK then the parent is allowed to walk that child right to the classroom the whole year every single day. No other school allows it. This was a major criteria for us. They dont stress much about late time also which is nice. Kids are very happy their and love their teachers.

This is so mean that you will get bullied the system principal everybody’s there and the principal they’re so bad and mean you will get yelled at straight at your face all the food is moldy especially the apples and you barely actually even learn anything that substitutes are the best because they don’t even do anything but just listen to music and the bathrooms are so bad they don’t even clean them overall just don’t even go. It’s so bad. The only good part is the place but there’s so many mean people there and just don’t go.

Drop off is the worst here. Ive been skipped over at least times dropping my son off where they open the door for you. Teacher so far is okay better than the last school. Everything else sucks. The front desk lady is rude, drop off women are rude and no one knows how to drive.

I am trying to be as fair as I can about this school. Learning: You will be taught something in your class and then take a standarized test in which your child will not recognize what is being taught in it because it was taught differently or not in all in school. Then, they will take the standarized test to determine if you are allowed to come back. I've seen a situation when the teacher said everything was going well but the standarized test said they were struggling and told not to come back the last week. So, this gave them no chance to intervene. The cirriculum is often different than other classical schools and thus, if you try to transfer, it is more difficult to do so. The math curriculum at the elementary level is slow paced compared to other classical schools (only learning how to do some double digit addition at the last weeks of school at 1st grade). But then I hear they drown the high school students in homework. Maybe they aren't prepared for it?Teaching: I met some great teachers here but none are really appreciated by the administration anyways. If a great teacher asks for a raise? No. If a faculty wants fairness if their child is buliied. No. These are real life examples I have heard of. Good teachers are always leaving. Social support: I have went to another school in which the faculty and parents are so much more supportive. I used to have a supportive dean but she left due to a disagreement with the other administration. The supportive attitude or lack thereof, trickles down. SPecial Education: this is a private school so there is none. If your child is a bit difficult to teach, they will be asked not to come back so do not consider it. Safety: While I was there, a child threated to bring a gun to school but oh, he wasn't expelled until the other parents starting to pull their kids out of the class. Surprise, all the siblings of that family were friends of one of the heads of school. There was another incident some years back but instead of calling the police, a police friend was called so not to scare people. I knew of someone physically bullied but was told it wasn't bad because the bully was a girl and the victim was a boy. Family engagement: there are many events but none of these parents really care about you after you leave. There is no reach out at all from any adminstrators as well. There are some good teachers but they aren't there long. The education isn't even well matched to other classical schools.