Coats-Erwin Middle School

The roaches have become overwhelming,, crawling the walls in broad daylight. not to mention the teachers passing along students just because they dont want to deal with them anymore!
--Submitted by a parent

This school is the best! Our Principal is the best. I may just be one of the lucky ones but I've never really heard anything about gangs at our school. Over my three years at this school I've had the full support of my teachers and have never had a serious problem with them. I do however feel that the administration is not as good as it could be when it comes to handling serious problems. It's pretty high but not where I, as a student, would like it. One major problem in schools in this day and time is discipline. Even though I'm a student I feel that the whole system went wrong when paddling was taken out of schools.
--Submitted by a student

This school is so cool... the teachers are really nice and helpful..
--Submitted by a student

I am completely fed up with the total lack of control that the school has in dealing with the gang activity. The Sheriff on duty as well as the Principal at the school is more concerned with hiding the truth instead of doing the right thing and weeding out the troublemakers. Kids are too afraid to report the gang members because the administration will not do anything about it. The gang members then 'beat down' the child or children who had reported them. Seems to me that this admin staff is only concerned with keeping their numbers up in order to keep their funding. I am absolutely disgusted and I would suggest any parent who plan on enrolling their child to investigate this on their own to see what is actually going on at this school.
--Submitted by a parent