Ellsworth Elementary School

This school goes above and beyond for the kids, changes are happening all the time, and growing pains are always rough. Throughout covid my Kindergartener got to go to class part time, which was great as she learns better that way. They have a newly formed PTO that is putting events on for the community, teachers go out of there way to help children, my daughter has extra needs for learning and she continuously gets attention from specialists to help her, and its helping. All schooling needs us parents to be apart of it, and there is no lack of that, tons of parent involvement, teacher parent interaction.

We are so happy with Fircrest. The staff is friendly, engaged, and they know every kid's name! Our experience with teachers has been very positive. With learning and behavior concerns for our son, the teachers have worked with us to positively reinforce better academic and social outcomes. We love that the school is diverse and offers accommodations for multiple languages, including a focus on sign language! Also, the school's theme of "Let Kindness Ripple" is something we carry into our interactions with family and community members.

This school literally traumatized me and my friend group. It tore apart my friend group because of bad emotional support. We'd been bullied in around 3rd grade, and despite telling the coach several times, the bully never stopped or got in trouble. Plus, when I went there, the school was obsessed with getting a rid of tag. So much so, that when some kids chased my friends, and one of them got harmed, my friends were sent to the office and were told "tag bad." Like, one of your students is currently thinking about harming themselves, and you're enforcing rules that don't need to be enforced. Please check in on students every once in a while, especially the older kids. just because they're older doesn't mean they're more mature. Thank you if you read this.

Very caring staff, they arrange a lot of fun learning activities.

I loved this school, I don’t remember much of the education, but the staff were so lovely. They cared so much for the students, the school videos are so adorable and I love how they kept doing that over the years. I keep going back to see my class in the Happy video a few years ago. So so adorable. Any child would be happy to be there.