Shaw Butte School

this was a really great elementry school at least for me. It had amazing teachers who taught really well.

its really help my kids improve school thankyou shawbutte.
—Submitted by a parent

my son goes to this school, and i think the teachers are really nice.
—Submitted by a parent

Teachers and staff appear to be quite capable and professional, but really have their hands full. We will be looking for another school to place our grandchild in, in the fall.

My granddaughter has been going to Shaw Butte for three years and I feel that there should be special classrooms for the little or non-English speaking children, with a bilingual teacher. I believe this type of student holds back the progress of the English speaking children both in the classroom and in testing. I believe some non-bilingual teachers have left because they can't work with the language barrier of their students (without someone to interpret for them). I have attended some functions and see very little parent involvement.
—Submitted by a parent

Starting with the 2006-2007 year, Shaw Butte has a new administration. We welcome you to Shaw Butte and have started some new intervention programs to best meet the needs of all of our students. We also love to have parent involvement! Andrea Willingham(Principal) and Janice Moore(Assistant Principal)
—Submitted by an administrator

If your child needs special services I won't not suggest this school. I would not recommend this school to any parent that truly cares about their childs education.
—Submitted by Salena Holland, a parent

School is satisfactory. Teachers seem dedicated.
—Submitted by a parent

Very diverse school, lots of different ethnic backgrounds. this school caters to forien students providing them with every effort to learn english and progress.
—Submitted by a former student

This school is consistently behind in academic achievements. If the teachers didn't have to spend so much time with the students teaching them how to speak english they might have more time to teach the students the bacics. Maybe its time we start to look at the administration at this school as the core problem. Obviously this administration isn't getting the job done. The school is losing a lot of great teachers as of the beginning of the school year. Something has to be wrong for a teacher to leave a school and start over somewhere else. One more question, wouldn't it make sense, if the district is in such a financial hardship to do away with the vice principals at each school and have the principals pick up the slack. We could save a tremendous amount of money this way and could afford to hire the teachers needed.
—Submitted by Concerned Parent, a parent

This is a school you should not send your children to. My fifth grader is in Shaw Butte, and has complained many times about it. The lunch food is either not hot enough or not cold enough, and there has even been hairs found in it. The teachers do very little teaching, and the students there are out of hand. The school grounds are dirty, and they do very little to fix it.
—Submitted by a parent

The lack of leadership from the district level and the fear that all have of the Principal is one of the reasons this school is underperforming again. The teachers are not allowed to adapt to thier students and are spoon fed an ineffective philoshpy and outdated teaching practices. Until the completely apathic attitude of the district and most of the parents are overcome this school will only continue to fail the students and the community.
—Submitted by Mrs. Adams, a parent

My son has gone to this school for 4 years, the school is more worried about discipline of the child than the learning of a child. This school seriously needs to take a look at their test scores and do something about it. They are a failing school and I see nothing being done for improvement and I agree with the parent that the office needs to be looked at, I have not seen great things since this principal/asst. principal have come aboard. They have almost lost their entire PTSA because of this. I am pulling my child out the end of this year because they do not listen to their parents.

Most of the teachers at Shaw Butte are awesome. My child has attended from grade 1 to 5. We cannot say enough about the teachers she has had. We need to encourage the teachers, staff and Principal, get involved, support them. This is a very large school...until you have walked in their shoes...it is really impossible to know how difficult it is to manage a school of this size.

To find the number one problem, look in the office. Someone somewhere has to take a stand for our kids, they deserve better!