Imagine Indigo Ranch

My wife teaches here, and my son just graduated from this school. Obviously my opinion is a little biased, but...the teachers are great! Have a great summer!
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Awesome school The best thing that happened to my son last year was Imagine charter school. 1. No racism tolerated 2.High standard to challenge kids 3.Parent involvement 4.We love Mrs Panek she's so fair
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Children are motivated to excel A school for parents who care about excellence not a drop off. Character is a big part of the school culture. With all that's going on in public schools what a blessing to have a school with true fair discipline. I love it!
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Worst Preschool ever. Truly. The preschool was so bad that toward the end of the year, they fired the teacher and assistant on a Friday and when the parents came into the room on Monday, the room was bare! We were never once contacted about the transition or change. I've yet to be contacted. Academically, it was good. My child has certainly gotten better at many things as far as academics go. The front desk is extremely unfriendly. If you choose to take your child to TICA, you have got to be on top of everything. It seems like there is very poor communication in the school. Now as far as the rest of the school, I really don't have any experience, but save yourself from their Preschool. Awful!
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Academically the school is good. My daughter was learning well above her grade level. As far as everything else goes - I can't fathom the problems a child would have transitioning to a public high school from TICA! These kids are micro managed down to where an 8th grader has to stand and wait for mommy & daddy to pick them up. The staff has no common sense when it comes to traffic for pickup after school. The principal is severely overshadowed by the Assistant Principal who is one of the better staff at this school. None of the staff at this school will take parents concerns seriously or even acknowledge you but instead will only send you a generic email referring you to the parent handbook with a generic answer! Overall I fear for my child at this school, if they are not going to a private high school, TICA does not prepare them for the real world!!!
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The school seems alright, this is my son's first year there, the teacher is very nice and my son likes her and likes learning. The Principal Mrs. Leone is more concern about where the parents park, following them out of the school grounds, than taking care of the educational part. I saw her taking pictures of the cars license plates to turn give them to the HOA. She even made a child cry because one morning his dad dropped him off on the street that Mrs. Leone doesn't want parents to park or stop, since his dad left before she could talk to the parent.
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I think TICA is a wonderful school. Yes, the parking is ridiculous, but I've heard it is at other schools as well. Wonder if they could alleviate that by making the grades let out at different times. This is our first year here in COS and my kindergartener is attending part time pm class. Her teacher is wonderful and my daughter loves her...Mrs. Bartges. I was worried about the advance math, but my daughter is excelling. I'm unsure about the Riggs, but they have assured us parents that the kids do understand it even if we parents don't quite comprehend. It's quite different than when we were growing up but my daughter is learning a lot and I love the feeling of the school is safe and secure and structured. Although we will be moving to the Falcon area, I will still commute my daughters here because I feel really good about this school. Although the parking attendant is a bit militant; the traffic flows best when he is on duty and it seems to run more smoothly. One suggestion for safety though is they may want to put a fence around their playing field next to the parking lot to alleviate any possible future accidents from balls in the lot etc.
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This is an excellent school. Probably the best acdemically in the area. Our kids have attended Ridgeview Elementary, TICA, and BLRA. TICA is where our kids learned the most over the course of a year. The largest downside for TICA is parents of kindergartners have to pay for kids to attend full day - but our experience was that our child learned and advanced more in half day at TICA than full day at BLRA. The RIGGS system is TREMENDOUS for kids learning to read and write - but ironically, the math advancement is slower and redundant. The traffic and parking is the biggest challenge for them to solve. In short, TICA has great teachers and academics with some fun, inventive staff but is situated poorly to handle the traffic.
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Real 411 if comparing schools. 1. Principal. Compassionate and gentle. Management is MBWA. By the book. Does not cave to parents with unreasonable demands. 2. Vice P. Combo counselor, cheerleader, and glass is half full guy. Busy but approachable. 3. Staff in 3rd year now. In 2nd Year too many military moved away and never told the school so they had less students on opening day than expected. Had to lay off some teachers to balance the books. This year the art teacher came back and class sizes are normal. 4. Parking. A militant parking person was hired Jan 11 when police started enforcing no parking on the main streets at the same time Vista Ridge is cutting loose. If you get in line after classes are dismissed like the rules say, you will have a normal experience. If you get in line before classes are done on the days he is working, he will ask you to come back after the kids come out. 5. Middle school is underrated. A very safe, insular, controlled climate for 6-8th graders (the focus is on studies, not the latest trends at the mall or on cable). 6. Very good school if you ignore the lack of parking and the small percentage of parents who are never happy.
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This an excellent school and I feel lucky to have my children enrolled. I think the administration goes out of its way to make sure a parent receives a lot of communication. I am never in the dark about school programs or initiatives because they send a lot of emails about what is going on. My children love Imagine.
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