Newman School

At Backman Elementary, we believe every child can learn and succeed. We work hard to make sure all students feel welcome, safe, and included. Our school stands for excellence, equity, and inclusion—every student, every classroom, every day. No matter where you come from or what you need, you belong here.

This has been a great school for my children. Teachers are great. It's a D1 school so they provide for a lot of the students needs.

I was worried about the quality of the education my first grade child would receive from this school, but my worries were unfounded. The school had a great academic program, with excellent faculty leadership and teacher involvement. I was very impressed and feel that his education suffered no loss whatsoever in comparison to other schools in areas with higher economic status. He went on field trips, had after school programs, and an incredibly successful year. We are sad we moved out of the district because the school was top-notch. His teacher was fantastic. I would highly recommend it.

Ms. Chipman, 1st grade is very knowledgeable and takes time and care with her students. They are currently building a new school. There is so much diversity at this school I am glad my grand kids go here.

I LOVE Rose Park!!! RP is a community school that is equity focused. We have highly qualified teachers and a school family that gets to know students on an individual basis.

This school gets overlooked. This IS the elementary school for downtown/City Creek Salt Lake City. It has incredible special classes like art and library that even the kindergartners get to participate in. It has very caring faculty members. The school counselor teaches character building and gives a friendly greeting each day to each student. It has an incredible preschool program that many other elementary schools in the district do not have.

The school itself is Amazing. My now 4th grader used to LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE it there until this year. She comes home every day depressed and after asking why she tells me how her teacher is getting frustrated about her being too shy. If someone is shy then they are shy. They have to open on their own. You can’t force it. And if students are going home depressed at the age of 9 then maybe one should question their profession. She says her teacher doesn’t encourage them if they have wrong answer she will just be like nope your wrong instead of saying that’s a good try but let’s try again. The problem is that all her previous teachers were that way and then she gets one more straight forward And it’s hard to swallow. And this new way of math. Blah. If my daughter needs help with her homework, I’m going to teach her how I learned because sometimes looking it up doesn’t help me to explain it to her. So the old way it is! The old way works. You know if it’s not broke then don’t fix it. I know that each state is different but my nephew who lives a couple states over learned the math my 4th grader is learning in 6th grade honours math. So either where he lives they are baby stepping it or where we live they are trying to advance them so they can score higher on state testing. But at the cost of students mental health. Not cool. I would highly recommend this school but only have to say is watch your students and if they start acting differs then ask why because nobody should feel bad about being somewhere or feel that uncomfortable about being there. Thank you!