Sope Creek Elementary School

Sope Creek is an extraordinary school. I have two children there, one of whom needs special services (language arts help). I cannot speak highly enough of the teachers, staff and especially administration and their caring attitude towards everyone's children. There are 1100 students, but you'd think it was a school of 200 with how plugged in the administration is to our children. My older child has an IEP and is served wonderfully by the special ed staff. I also want to mention, you see the admin staff all the time. They are very accessible and responsive. Also, your emails, calls or concerns are answered quickly and candidly. It is a great, great school.
--Submitted by a parent

My son goes to Sope Creek, and at the end of the school year we will be moving to another home in order to remove him from this school. The first year he went to this school, he had the most wonderful teacher and thrived. This year, he has a teacher that is just filling in a spot and that is too lazy to actually care. The administration may be wonderful, until you question them, even politely, about their actions regarding your child. The principal has consistantly ignored request after request for a private meeting regarding our issues, and we are now at the point were we are disgusted. I am extremely disapointed, considering we moved here from out of state, and chose this house in order to have our son go to this school because it is supposed to be one of the best. I would have to strongly disagree.
--Submitted by a parent

Excellent school! Good teachers! great admin and support staff. And principal will personally look into even an individual request/note sent to her attention. I disapprove some of (but not all) their fund raising activitiies. Boosterthon is absolutely criminal and should be banned from not only this school bur all schools.
--Submitted by a parent

We moved to this area specifically for the schools. Sope Creek is an excellent school. I really do not understand some of the comments regarding unattentive teachers. In fact, a couple teachers have spent hours with us working on special plans for our oldest son who tends to get bored easily with the overall level of work. Upsides are excellent academics in regular and advanced classes, attentive teachers (if you treat them well) and great kids. Downsides are overly aggressive parents (this is a famous East Cobb trait), an administrative staff that can be aloof and not attentive to individual needs and a lack of language and arts (typical of all public schools). Overall, we could not expect more out of a public school. If we wanted more academic options on languages or arts and less focus on politically correct social studies, we could choose to send them to a private school. However, with a few exceptions, these may not have a higher level of fundamental academic rigor (math, science and reading).
--Submitted by a parent

My two sons went to Sope Creek Elementary School and received an excellent education they are both in advanced classes in their middle and high schools and are well prepared.
--Submitted by a parent

My oldest daughter went to attended Sope Creek for 1-5. I have a daughter who is attending now and a child getting ready to join next year. We love Sope Creek. The schoool is inviting the teachers are positive and go above and beyond the call of duty. My oldest has ADHD and was treated wonderfully in the classroom and now excelled to Gifted and advanced placement classes at Dickerson. Yes there are alot of donations for things and request however I have seen a noticable decrease in the request for donation in the past 2 years. I am very happy to send my kids here.
--Submitted by a parent

I ended up pulling my two boys with ADHD out because they were segregated from their "typical peers" for 95% of the day! The majority of the staff had no understanding of how to teach students with learning disablities, and no care to change. I felt left out and not included by most moms, even though I chaired a committee in PTA. We need to stop segregating students! All students can benefit from working together! Test scores have become too important. We may be producing kids with high IQ scores, but at what expense? Compassion and acceptance for others are not measured on CRCT tests, but they are extremely important to becoming good people.
--Submitted by a parent

OOPS....I meant to say personnel on my below review, wish there was a better way to correct it?
--Submitted by a parent

Excellent school with tremendous opportunities for hands on learning and development. The school always tests well but just as important are the intangibles. My daughter graduated from Sope Creek with a love of learning and a strong work ethic and I couldn't have asked for more.
--Submitted by a parent

A great school for over-achieving, Ivy League bound students. If your child does not already fit this mold, look elsewhere as it's not a good fit for the average student. Also, I've never been in a school system that wants so many mandatory and pressured 'donations' for everything from t-shirts to field trips (even 'in-school' filed trips??). At times it feels like I'm paying tuition to send my child here. This is our first year here and I'm seriously considering making it our last.
--Submitted by a parent