Samuel Jackman Middle School

Jackman is a good middle school. Not the best, but there is no such thing as the "perfect school". The principal does try his best to improve the school but most of all, have the students in a learning envoirnment where they are both learning and enjoying it. If the school is going through problems such as bullying, it is the students' fault not the schools. but the school's job to control it. The main goal at Jackman is Success and they will achieve it.

a great school with wonderful students

It is a wonderful school to go to! The teachers and students are wonderful and as the years have past the testing scores have been increasing each year.

As with most schools, Jackman has good and bad teachers, and your child's experience will be affected by the particular teachers to whom s/he is assigned. My 4 kids have gone through Jackman over a period of 11 years, and their experiences vary from good to very poor. I have observed how school leadership (mostly the principals) has gone from bad to worse. Like the leadership, the chance of student success is hit and miss. My family has experienced 2 of each.
--Submitted by a parent

i think samuel jackman is the best middle school ever because everyone there is so nice...they are like another big group of family that will always be there for you!! even the secreteries and administrators all are so nice to everyone...even the teachers...they are always their for their students!! and i really appreciate that!!
--Submitted by a student

Samuel Jackman is a good middle school, but lacks several key factors that keeps it from being great. First, the school has failed to serve its learning community. Samuel Jackman has failed to provide the most common Elk Grove access, such as Ed Loop. Cousenlors do not return parents phone calls, faculty and administrators lack a shared vision campus vision. All of this is in plan view of both the students and parents. The community has a low expectation of the school's administration, teachers, and students. Samuel Jackman can break its bondage by simpley cultivating an environment of academic success by listening to its' students' needs, desires, and promoting their deams. Good education involves cultivating a relationship of trust and friendship between the campus, parents and students.
--Submitted by a parent

Samuel Jackman is a school with enormous potential. There is a group of involved and truly caring teachers that stay on this campus in hopes of helping the kids. The key for the future of these children will be parent involvement. This has two effects. 1. Involved parents motivate their children to study and take school seriously. 2. Involved parents can put pressure on the school and administrators to maintain a good learning environment and necessitate the programs and changes needed to motivate and enrich the students' experience.

I am extremely disappointed by the way this school is run. My child has been stressing over too much homework and no teachers to help him. I must say this school needs a change. The principal is hesitant to help also. And the math classes they have are awful! My child, who is geometry, has been thrown behind because of his teacher being absent and having an unqualified sub.
--Submitted by Dissapointed Parent, a parent