King School

The administration is not great and turnover is high amongst them. The teachers however, are the saving grace to this school. They are honest, competent, unique, and willing people who care about the kids. I respect and adore the teacher staff. The cafeteria staff are incompetent. I had to reach out to state just to tell them how to do their job for food accommodations for allergies. They had no idea what subsidies children were entitled to. The population amongst the school is otherwise low income and it is reflected throughout what you will find for activities, learning, field trips, and curriculum. The quality of teaching seems solely left to teachers without the support the adequate support they need to run high quality classrooms.

Teachers need more training. School front office are super nice.

A lot of people come to register here and are greeted with the nastiest front desk that it just ends up turning people off. I was so close to turning away (i can name 2 neighbors that did) because 4/5 encounters with the front office are not good. Recess duties sit around on their cell phones and tell kids to handle fights and scrapes on their own. We’ve been lucky enough to have really amazing teachers I’m so thankful to them. However when a child needs support or to lay down or call their parents, same problem: front desk will just send them back. They are lazy and rude. When THEY make a mistake, they will make you feel like an idiot for not checking their website every day or checking 20 different emails from the district as they do rather than just simply apologizing. For example, telling everyone to show up and then as people arrive suddenly explain really the event is two days later and as parents we should've known and should be checking the website and dozens of emails the district sends daily to actually know what’s going on and not trust the text messages we received. It doesn’t have to be that deep but it’s the way they treat people so inferior when really they should be the ones that are embarrassed. They have an no respect for people who work and could care less if they give you the runaround like when my daughter didn’t have a teacher on the first day of school and they didn’t just want to be honest about it a few years ago. They forget we pay their bills when we pay our taxes yet they’re always BEGGING SHAMELESSLY for money. Typical public school stuff sadly. In the end, the inconveniences of dealing with them sometimes is definitely worth the opportunity my kids gain from going here. I really like the last principal for the last few years I feel like he’s really supportive and very involved. Also says a lot when you have to turn off Google comments lol embarrassing for you.

If your child is special needs or has any developmental disabilities, I do not suggest taking your child to the school they may come home covered in bruises and broken bones. Also, when incidences have happened, they do not call the parents and when the parents start to inquire about what’s going on, then they start looking into the child and making up stories about what the child has said and or done. This isn’t the first incident we have had either. We’ve had staff share personal information about our students to other students. That is highly against FERPA