Shining Mountain Elementary School

The administration at this school takes almost NO accountability for the lack of safety in their school. My oldest has attended this school for 3 years now and EVERY single year there has been issues with bullying and now my youngest is having issues with her body boundaries being crossed by other students. There seems to be an overall lack of supervision outside of the classrooms and each and every incident gets swept under the rug while the administration claims they "have no issues". The school is rated so high for their "education standards" yet every year since he has started my son has fallen more and more behind both educationally and emotionally, with only one option for help being offered and NO other resources being mentioned. Almost the entire 1st grade student body had to attend summer reading help. The ONLY saving grace of this school is the teachers and that's if you get lucky enough to get a good one. Shout out to Mrs. Krum and Mrs. Marler!

This school and the design, are ideally wonderful ideas. I can not say that all of the staff is one star because that would be wrong .But I will say with my recent experience with the handling of the disciplinary response to certain teachers Bullying and negatively handling there pre third grade children. It’s extremely disheartening and discouraging to know that a teacher in a school held so highly in the district is allowed to not help a child to grow and flourish mentally emotionally and educationally .When parents counselors and other teacher bring it to a principals attention! and all that is asked is for that child to be removed from that class and administrators choose to not do this because they don’t want to make waves with the teacher? Our children should matter and keeping them in and bullying them because you don’t like there parents is ridiculous. Be better

The special education program needs more support and funding. I feel that they are overworked, short staffed, and is in need of para educators. It is not a good feeling to know your child is in a program to get them up to speed when the support isn't there, the level of support isn't adequate, and kids are paying the price. I really don't know where to put ratings on the school & teachers because there are so many holes that need to be filled before making a complete judgement of the school. This isn't school specific necessarily but a common and hugely neglected aspect of education.

This school emphasizes perfect attendance to an insane degree. Weekly, pictures are up in the hallway and online of the teachers with the perfect attendance. Then they allow the class with the best attendance of the month school to choose a spirit day. The kids in other classes that make it to school everyday have no special reward and feel it is very unfair. Also, to put such emphasis on perfect attendance makes it feel that when kids are sick they are expected to still attend school. It just doesn't make much sense. The one spirit day that the class with best attendance chooses is usually shared with the parents last minute as well. This school is not the best with communication. They also lack fun experiences for the kiddos. They have a movie night once or twice a year, one spirit day a month, popcorn Friday sometimes, and a student store sometimes. Last year they did have a community dance thing. There are no award ceremonies for the students. We had to switch to this school due to boundary changes and miss Clover Creek Elementary School so much. Much better communication and so many friendly faces. The teachers at Pioneer seem pretty nice and friendly, but I'm on the fence about the Principal and Vice principal.

I think this school is amazing. As a parent there are so many benifits such as community involvment & being there for each other but as a child WOW. They teach schience, art, music and amazing cirriculim to all grades. I have a preschool & kindg. that go to this campus & we all love it. Ask to speak with a PFC lead or thier enrollment manager to get connected.