Leander High School

Penrod is a bully. 1.9 star rated school huh? Great job Penrod

Going to this school has been the most unsatisfactory experience in my life. Like others have said, it's full of cockroaches, vape addicts, and drug abusers. The facilities are subpar; there are missing stall doors in the restrooms and half the soap dispensers don't work, apparently the janitors are too lazy or understaffed to do anything about it. Most teachers don't explain the subject material properly, or they just play educational YouTube videos because they can't be bothered to get out of their swivel chair and do anything. Substitutes are treated like baby sitters and allow students to behave like wild animals while they look at their phones. Don't even get me started on the poor performance of our sports teams.

As a student currently in this high school, I can speak on behalf of around 95% of students here when I say it is a very unpleasant place. There are immense amounts of violence, drug usage (hard drugs as well), horrible bullying, what I can only describe as "gang" violence. For the most part we have very kind and loving teachers and our principle is one of the most amazing leaders I've ever met. However that does not make up for the poor safety conditions and extremely confusing and horrendous curriculums. We are lacking important teachers such as language teachers. In one instance we have a French teacher in our ASL (American sign language) teacher. I've seen more than 20+ students drop this class before the first 6 weeks is even over. I am overly cautious of stepping on cockroaches that seem as if they mutated, I mean these roaches are huge.- I get bruises every single day in school because of the horrible schedule and release timing. If I could add photos I would love to show the yellow and black, green and blue, purple and black bruises all on my arms and upper chest. I am 5'1 which puts me in a dangerous spot. It's a game of human dodgeball and if you're unlucky then it's human bumper cars. You learn to accept getting body slammed by people 2x your height and weight in the hall if it means getting to class on time.The most unpleasant part is getting INTO the school if you're so much as 30 seconds late. There are videos of masses of students, 40+ students, stuck outside in the heat battling to get inside to get a late pass with accurate timing. Got to school at 8:17 (two minutes late) and finally got into the school at 8:25 after being outside the entire time in almost 90°F weather.My final thoughts on all of this are, this is an unsafe place (physically), unhealthy place (mentally), and academically behind place of learning.I used advanced spell check for this entire thing. However spell check just broke so that's very unfortunate. I'm almost two grades behind in some of my strongest classes because of the learning system.However, 1/5 stars, I highly do not recommend.

I have known family who attended this school.

Kids are very respectful. Teachers invest in needs of students.