Cortez Elementary School

This school has opened my future by helping me gain enough knowledge for challenges that lie ahead. I am currently a 9th grader now but i attended 5 to 8 grades at Cortez. For starters you will get homework, projects, and tests no lie about that. But of course as i got older from 5th grade to 6th some of my classmates started leaving? Alot told me "oh it's to hard" "too much homework to strict" Well i started to think maybe i should move but my mom refused!! I thank her for that becuase finishing 8th grade at cortez has helped me in high school becuase some of the material i am learning i have learned at Cortez!!! when everyone else has no idea what it is..:) i was in this school while Mrs. Alvarez was principal now they have changed principals but my younger 9 year old brother attends 4th grade there! Very good teachers are there that help you and encourage you in your academic grades:) i graduated last year 2011 and think what a privillage i had to be in a school like Cortez! It is hard if you don't do the homework In the end promotion for 8th grade is amazing!! A very good school!! even though i thought it was horrible sometimes becuase of the homework i made it with a 3.6:):)

Cortez is a great institution, their teachers and principal are fantastic. They go above and beyond in their work with the students so as to prepare them for the future. As for the mother that gave Cortez a 1 star rating because her "daughter said it was hard," all I can say is if she can't handle 7th/8th grade math you better get her additional help now because it doesn't get any easier. The projects help the students prepare for what is to come, once they get to H.S. that's all it is projects, essays, presentations, experiments, reading, oh yeah and then there's the homework too. This is what will seperate the successfull students that go on to great universities, degrees and careers from those who just get by or worse yet end up dropping out. Cortez Rocks!!! Keep up the awesome work...
--Submitted by a parent

My daughter is finishing second grade this is the first year she is at this school and I am very happy, the teachers are highly qualified, the principal leadership is the best, and she is keeping the parents highly involved. They have tha after school program that ends at 6 pm. and there is a lot of homework help, and a lot of different activities based on a curriculum not only baby sitting kids. Scince she was at other school within the district for first grade, and we run into a lot of bulling activities, and the teachers spent more time disciplining the kids instead of teachin. During this year she was assigned to a toutoring group to cathc up with her peers that start first grade in this school. The comunication with the teachers and principal is very good.
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7th grade is really HARD... however my experience is... my child has been offered "free" after school tutoring to keep her passing. Math is not her "thing" as she says, but the tutoring does keep her above water, when she attends. any loss in understanding for her appears to be her own doing or "un doing" at this point. I so far can not blame the school.
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These teachers aren't mean per say, they are just strict, they help children to think ahead for the future, all of these projects are to help your students be better at a certain subject.

i personally have to agree..Cortez is a school of greatness..there are so many teachers that care for the students. there are many assignments that are given out..but there shouldnt be any problem completing them.the school gives them ahead of timee so that the students have the ability to turn in an A+ assignment..i as a student at Cortez..love the way the teachers communicate among eachother i think that with the teachers soing thiss..it jst helps the teachers understand where each student struggles more..so that they know there weakness and strength..there are not many schools that have teachers that do so..Cortez is a school of one of a kindd..i dontt thinkk there is any school like or better then it

I love this school. This school had great teaching skills, great teachers, and a great principal. Everyone is nice, polite, and friendly. At this school there is a friendly atmosphere because of the kind and smart caring students, teachers, and staff. This school is amazing, and if it were to change, it would change the school even better. I don't think there is another school as great as this one, I love it!

Excuse me sir/ma'am. Before you post things up like this shouldn't you do do something about it first. If you don't like your daughter coming here, then why don't you take her out and then post the comment? You obviously like this school because you don't take her out. That I know of, no algebra student this year has left this exemplary school. Yes the students get projects but they are not hard and they don't get a lot. If your daughter does waste her time and does her project until the last minute, then yes, obviously it will SEEM hard but in reality it isn't. The teachers ARE NOT mean. They might be strict but it's all part of education and the teachers aren't that strict either. They talk and joke around with the students and it's like the teachers and students are close friends but things don't get out of hand either. I give this school a 5 out of 5 but I would give it a 5 out of 100 if I could. I believe this school is great! The comment that gave this school 1 star is a FALSE statement and is not true about this marvelous school.
--Submitted by a parent

Too much homework and projects. My 7th Grade daughter in Algebra has 4 projects and the teachers are not nice especially this one teacher she says.
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....but why "boot out" kids who aren't keeping up? Can you really assess a school who only keeps the performing students and weeds out kids who can't keep up? Any school that had this option would be exemplary. Just a thought........
--Submitted by a parent