Hollin Meadows Elementary School

We have been thrilled with Belle View Elementary for our daughter. We are a military family and moved to the area as she was beginning second grade. She made friends quickly and has always been supported well by staff and teachers. Now in third grade she has had the opportunity to be part of advanced academics, student council, and other school programs. We have loved the family engagement and the activities run by the PTA as well as the school. I feel that the school is very safe, the staff are incredibly warm, and my daughter is honestly thriving.

This school is a gem. Small class size and great leadership. There are opportunities to be involved. It a nice neighborhood school. I would recommend it. The principal is wonderful and she cares about people and all the kids in the school and she knows everyone by name.

We feel the school is part of our family. It is a happy place to be and my students enjoy learning.

My experience as a parent of my 7 year old so far has been Great I can't 'complain about teachers or staff at this school . Parent need to support there kids as well , is not only the school teachers that need to do all the job. Every parent should help their children's at home to be successful. Just to mention the Principal is vey engage in every activity in the School which is wonderful .

My daughter was so excited and proud to be accepted into the full time AAP program and start 3rd grade at Stratford. What we didn't account for with the transfer was an hour long bus ride in each direction, teaching methods that were much more technology heavy than our base school, and a yearlong feeling of disconnect from what she was learning in the classroom. Over the course of the entire school year, my daughter didn't bring home a single spelling test, worksheet, or graded paper or test... one of the key ways parents can monitor progress and ciricculum. We never saw an art project, or any project for that matter. It's wild that in 3rd grade students can be pushed onto computers so heavily that there is no tangle parts of their education that come home. My daughter boards the bus at 8:05 each morning, and get's dropped off at 5pm each evening... for a standard school day. We have participated in most every major school event, I've volunteered in the classroom and chaparoned school trips, but I never felt that my interaction with other parents or staff members was sincere... it was a big let down. The school lacks warmth. We were expecting something spectacular, and were met with mediocre. Needless to say the transfer forms have been filed.

Hello. Some of you that may be reading this may know who I am. I and my family desired to make a big change and to leave mid 7th grade. I am now a freshman at another school and couldn’t be happier. The support and specifically the administration is horrible, and has made my life so much harder than is needs to be. I’m so glad to be away from it all, and be independent. I was also reprimanded as being too boyish for sitting and playing certain things at recess. I was in the office everyday, and got reprimanded for little things constantly. Not a great school.