Katherine H Hankins Middle School

This school is probably one of the worst, there are so many reasons why and no room here to list them. I have one child currently attending and one child that attended about 10 years ago. The best thing the Mobile county school board can do for the children who have to attend this place is either commence to handing out pink slips starting at the top or just shut the doors all together. My children still managed to excell in school in spite of Hankins Middle School but trust me it is only because of who they are as young people not because of anything Hankins has done. If you can manage to send your child somewhere else then you really should. And a word of advice for the school board, you may want to give some serious consideration to hiring a ex Marine or military commander of some type to run Hankins, the school is in desperate need of real leadership.
--Submitted by a parent

My children have attended HMS and I have been very happy. They are learning and are having fun at the same time. The 25 book program is great. My children are talking about books!
--Submitted by a parent

I happen to go to hankins and i cheer at this school i have to say i love to go to school and some of the teachers do pick students to do things for them (the same ones) and thats fine . if you hang out with the right people you want be in the wrong.
--Submitted by a student

I am currently a student at Hankins Middle School. I think that the administration cares to much about what you wear and the way you dress than the way you learn and succeed in school. They care too much about what going on outside of the classrooms and not what's going on in the classrooms. They are having teachers pulled out of the class rooms just to go to some Making Middle Schools Work Meetings. I mean if they actually want the middle schools work then they should stop taking teachers out of class just to go to some meeting, while they could be teaching their students. And when they do go to those meeting they're not teaching the students. Therefore the students aren't learning anything.
--Submitted by a student

If you really care about your childs education and discipline you would not want to pick hankins middle school for your children to attend in neither grades 6,7, or 8 why because the way they handle their discipline rulesare not sometimes very fair and there not handle to perfection they spend to much time worrying about uniforms and little these in the code of conduct like earrings(girls and boys)and other little minor thingsand not teaching the very well.
--Submitted by a parent

Teachers at Hankins pick favorites. The others are just there, not much attention paid to them. Teachers receive and make personal phone calls on their personal cell phone during class. Dress code states boys can have 1 earring, but some teachers make them remove them in their class or cover them up. Though they'll not do this to the girls and allow them 4 ear piercings. Double standard! If you can afford private school, GO FOR IT! They also do not respond to any e-mails sent to their personal email addresses on schoolinsites.com so don't bother. Not even the cafeteria workers will respond.
--Submitted by a parent

I am currently attending Hankins Middle School finishng up my eighth grade year. I found my experience very positive and intresting and am glad this was this was the school of my choice. The faculty and staff work extremely hard to provide each student with a good education. Although alot of students take advantage of the nicer administration.
--Submitted by a student

I am a former student of Hankins and personally I didn't have a positve experience there. It has been about 5 years since I was a student and if the same faculty is still there, then I'm sure there hasn't been any improvement. Students who need an affluent amount of help, don't recieve it. I had many trouble in Algebra as a young student, that carried on into high school because of a lack of consistancy in the teachers. Many teachers that I had made me feel like I didn't have a brain when I asked a question. Here is a little clue: It's not the straight A students that need all the help, it's those that struggle. Please, have faith in those kids, they can succeed if you just give them the time.
--Submitted by a former student

This is one of the worst schools in the system. There is no communication between parents, teachers and administrators. The School Board is not any better. Your sent from person to person and you never get a straight answer.
--Submitted by a parent

This school needs to be reevaluated by the Board of Education. I tried to contact the teachers as well as the office staff concerning my child and the problems she was having. No one listened until it was too late. This school does not function on a normal basis and how can students learn when the teachers embarrass them when they ask questions in class instead of trying to help them. I don't recommend anyone sending their child to this school.
--Submitted by a parent