Lakeridge Middle School

Staff and atmosphere are fantastic here. Kids learn the right way and are always engaged.

Overwhelming experience with this school is that the policies and procedures are more in alignment to meet the needs of a "traditional" nuclear family. Extraordinarily limited in terms of ability to contact, only by phone and only during office hours. School leadership, principal(s), need greater structure and guidance. Unsure of who or which parties actually make decisions that affect the whole, however experiences over multiple years have repeatedly validated impression that parent(s) either agree or are considered trouble makers and not just disregarded but gossiped about by top school administrators and staff. Leadership intolerant of different points of views, and inflexible towards working single parents. Quite frankly it is below the professional standards for educators to treat a student differently because you don't "like" the parent. And to not "like" a parent simply because they have an opinion and approach different from the nuclear family structure.

My son was completely neglected and teamed up with another student who would constantly bite him and fight with him, and then my son would then get wrapped into the same mix of people. They kept him with the same people around the same people never changed it, never gave him the attention to succeed which is why he was failing in many classes, and his morale was completely down because there was nobody motivating him or telling them that he was doing a good job. The vice principal is a complete slob, rude, and filled with his own power and his tiny position. Safety is a no-go in that school as my son had repeatedly wounds bite marks and even other injuries with almost no reporting or no solution. The teachers are rude and ineffective and unintelligent. And their curriculum is about as low as you can get. I would never recommend this school to anyone nor ever let anyone go to the school if they ask me. They even try to pull a guilt trip about needing to know if my son was going to be enroll in the school and constantly hassling us for it, we just needed time to get him out of that horrible toxic environment. Do not let your child attend this school which is riddled with inconsistency, really horrible education coming of vice principal who is full of himself with a yellow Bronco LOL

This school is the best elementary school I've ever been to. It simply handles all of the fundamentals beautifully. I 100% would stay longer if I could. But alas, I grew too soon into Sumner Middle School. No offense to that school though, because that one's amazing, too.