South Davis Jr High School

My son has spent three years at this school and it has all been a good experience!

My child was in the special needs until I found out she wad threatened by the aid to not tell me or her father anything or she would be punished and put in time out. The principal Karen Miller chose to defend the aid over the child. This school also has issues with to many children in special needs and not enough aids or help. I would avoid this school.

My daughter loves her school. The administration has always been helpful, the teachers have passion and the volunteers are plentiful.

Excellent teachers and staff work hard to meet students needs

Really grateful for this school. There are only about six schools in my community for all day childcare when I work my daughter's advanced in learning and she gets what she needs. There was a lot of social interaction. They learn a lot of social skills there even though it's a smaller group of kids.

I would not recommend this school for several reasons: 1) My daughter has a speech disability, and she has received completely inadequate support. After 5 years at St. Olaf’s, my daughter is in the < 0.1 percentile for speech for kids her age. 2) Nearly every standardized test I’ve seen for my daughters indicates that Intervention is needed. My daughters are in the 21st percentile nationally for math. Despite the small class sizes at St. Olaf’s, this is not a school of educational excellence. 3) Every year there is significant teacher turn-over. This year 6 of the 13 teachers were new. The middle school math teacher left abruptly over the weekend in Oct, and there was no math teacher for over a month. 4) My daughters have experienced frequent bullying by a male classmate with severe behavioral issues who outweighs them by 2X. The school has done nothing to keep them safe. Unfortunately in my case there is another parent involved, otherwise I would've pulled my girls 5 years ago.