Knox Wiley Middle School

I have three children who have attended Pleasant Hill. This is our 8th year of having at least one child there. Overall Pleasant Hill is great. Two of my children have received extra services and testing for disabilities and I’ve been very happy with the staff and how they’ve helped my students with these hurdles. Very happy to be at Pleasant Hill.

Parkside gives an excellent experience for all its students in education and activities.

Excellent school- beautiful environment for learning to start- large oak tree on playground and bright windowed classrooms. Excellent staff- knowledgeable and many have been with the facility for sometime. Carpool lane for drop off. Excellent staff to parent communication. Our son has thrived in this school and we are so happy with our decision. Excellent administration as well!

Good luck if you get bullied, sexually harassed, or physically assaulted by other students or teachers at this school. Nobody will believe you or do anything except say that they're "investigating the situation" and then say they're "so sorry for your perception of what happened". And because you raised an issue and wanted help for a problem? You're their new favorite problem to pick at, because how dare you try to make them help you? That's not their job. At least, not here.Oh, and now? If you so much as raise your voice, they threaten to send you to LEO where there's a cop instead of handling the situation like a professional educator. You'll be a target. Are some of the teachers/counselors nice? Sure. But the best part of it all? If you are behind and failing miserably at any subject, they'll gladly let you slip through the cracks and keep on passing you without so much as letting your parent know until it's WAY too late. Nobody at this school cares about you or your education. And it's just getting worse.

My son has been at Akin since Kindergarten. and now he's going into 4th grade. All the teachers have been excellent. My son told me yesterday there is zero bullying at akin and whenever he sees bullying on a TV show, or a YouTube video, he always thinks about having never seen anything like that at Akin. I thought that was really impressive! The teachers work with each kid on what they need, even despite having a class full of children. My child has always felt safe and cared for by his teachers and the other staff (principals, admin, counselor, nurse, etc.), despite having some anxiety issues I always worried about with him being away from us. They really take care of his physical as well as emotional well-being.The only complaint he's had is that he gets bored and feels like the learning is too slow, he feels like he only spends 20 minutes learning and the rest "being bored." That is probably more just a downfall of school in general since it's a class full of children and everyone has to learn all the things each lesson, so I don't blame the school for that, I don't think. It's been a wonderful school for our child, and our youngest one enters Kindergarten there next year and we all think she will love school!