Samuel Jackman Middle School

Samuel Jackman Middle School is a wonderful school! I refuse to go to any other school in the district regardless or the rankings or test scores. From the beginning of the school year up until now, students have improved on school work, behavior, and their willingness to attend class on time. The principal is trying his absolute best to keep each and every student in line. A lot of parents complain about how much home work their child has and how much trouble they have in math. They always feel the need to blame it on the teachers. Well, most of the time, the teacher has nothing to do with that. Just make sure your child is keeping up with their school work, asking questions in class, coming to the teacher for help and completing their homework as soon as they get home from school and stop letting them hop right on their x-box after school because of some lousy excuse they made complaining about how long their day was at school. Every student should use their time wisely and do something productive with it such as reading a book or even studying to get ahead of the game. I believe every Jackman student. All students have the potential to do OUTSTANDING and not give up!

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