Brock Bridge Elementary School

This school is good if you are looking for friends, fun activities, and work that exercises the mind. The field trips are great and there are never any fights. But the cafeteria needs a lot of cleaning everyday and a large amount of the teachers are mean. Although, their is a fun activity that occurs every month, you have to earn a certain amount of bobcat bucks (a reward in dollar form if you are good) and if you do, you get do stuff like movie day, game day, carnival day, cookie decorating, dances, and a lot more. Most of the teachers are excellent at teaching so that makes it easy to take tests, and they are real friends, some of them. The principal is really nice and lets the kids get a treat if we succeed a challenge. Overall the school is great.

This school has a lot of high point and some challenges. The new principal leadership and highly responsive and visionary. This school does good job of managing diversity. One best kept secret about the school is that it produced more African-American students at the advanced level on MSA than ANY elementary school in neighboring Howard County Schools. My children have had some great teachers and some OK teachers. It pay to be very visible and involved as a parent at this school.
--Submitted by a parent

This is a great school. The children are well behaved and the teachers are very professional. Leadership could be stronger but parents have to remember you cant just send your kids to school and expect them to come home with a good education. You have to sit down with them every night and review their homework. My daughter does and has always gotten a lot of homework. My wife and I are also are very active in her education. Parents have to be an advocate for their child every step of the way and work with teachers not against them. That is what makes good schools.
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My two children are attending this school since 2007. They seem fine at school. Whenever I visit the school, teachers looked very busy to greet with parents. School staffs more welcomed visitors and were kind. My concern of this school through my kids is that teachers need to care of every students in studying in more details. Please teachers! I understand you guys are so busy for your many duties but that is what teachers should be...quite sacrifice to those children. Please put your energy to teaching and explaining more!!
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The special education children seem to be grouped into one lump regardless of how little or how great the disability. So you've got ADHD with extreme Autism in the same class. My son is bored out of his mind and now hates school with a passion. He's faking illnesses daily and I'm dragging him to school all yr. Thx!
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We did not have a positive experience with this school. At the end of the year I had one child barely passing her grade, and my other child bored out of his mind from lack of challenge. It seems if your child doesn't fall in the 'middle' they are out of luck. There were no programs offered for struggling or excelling students. The main goal of the school seemed to be about behavior and controlling it aka pull a card/good listening club. What about the kids that don't have issues with that? I now homeschool my kids until we can afford to move to a better area.
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The teachers at this school are very involved and care about their students. Parent involvement at our last school was much better. PTA meetings average less than 10 people. Too much work falls on a small group of parents and teachers.
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My son is in the 4th grade. I really like his teacher, all of the teachers to this point, the parent involvement and the activities that the PTA puts on. Mr. Noon is a great Vice. He is very pleasant and engaged. Ms. Briscoe never speaks to you. If she sees you, she just nods and keeps walking. I don't feel that she is setting a strong cultural foundation at the school. I like the idea of the agenda books, but I feel that school needs to get up to the times. The school is dirty and needs a paint job.
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I have a son in special needs K. Compared to his school last year this one is a God Sent. I walk my child to class on a regular basis and the school always seems clean. His teacher and assistant have gone well beyond of what I expect to help him acheive his goals. The Vice Principle is always willing to help when he is needed, and his therapists are not only great with his progress, some are even the normal greaters outside in the morning and more than happy to talk with what ever concerns I have. Over all I am extemely pleased and excited to bring my son to school every day and pick him up just to see what he learned and how his day was.
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My child has been at this school since third grade, he is now a fifth grader, we like his teacher this year and every year he has attended. I am not thrilled with the principal she is not friendly to parents or children. I don't like the fact that this school is very diverse yet september 15-October 15 is hispanic heritage month and nothing is being done to celebrate this, I am a school employee in another district and every heritage is celebrated. My son was also very upset about the same.
--Submitted by a parent