Berkshire High School

If you send your child to this school you MUST be the one who will be in the driver seat directing the lack of education and guidance they will receive to get into college. If your child chooses not to participate in a sport they will be left behind, ignored, belittled and the faculty will have no use for them. Many of the students have a sense of entitlement issue, as do the teachers. If you would like your child to have a below average education you should send them to Berkshire.
--Submitted by a parent

The district suffers from cronyism. Complete lack of willingness to lead in a positive direction. Communications with parent community and student body often disrespectful and dismissive. Very disciplinarian style of leadership, teachers look for students to do something wrong. Positive recognition of students supports cronyism rather than achievement and true potential. Been in the district over 10 years and it keeps getting worse. Paradigm shift in order. Minimal curriculum.
--Submitted by a parent

I agree with many of the recent assessments of Berkshire. I am a 1992 graduate and have watched the school's ratings dip lower and lower in the decades since. There used to be a lot more academic diversity than there is now. While I wouldn't call it a "jock school", the balance between academics and athletics has certainly been tipped in the athletic direction considerably in recent years. Gone are many of the teachers who would drive from other counties to teach in one of the better schools around.

i am curently a senior at this school and i would just like to say we may be a 'jock school' but that's because that is what the students here choose to devote their time to. We don't have a gifted program ,no. This is because gifted students take up a small fraction of the student body and we are a small school as it is. that being said the gifted student body is proportionally smaller than other larger schools making it uneconomical to offer a gifted program.
--Submitted by a student

Berkshire suffers most from the poor funding system in Ohio. They also developed a reputation as being a 'jock' school. A lot of small town 'special interests.' but overall it is a school that is better than many of the larger schools, but I have visited other schools of similar size that offer more academics. School safety is not an issue.
--Submitted by a parent

As a parent I found berkshire's lack of opportunities for the high school's gifted students non-exsitant. The best and the brightest students' needs are ignored. Providing AP classes are only good for those students that do not fit the 'typical' profile of gifted. Parents are left to their own (often uninformed) methods to see to it their child gets, at least, an 'average' education. These students should be nurtured throughout their high school career. Imagine the school's report card if that were to happen. In my opinion the academic accomplishments of berkshire's gifted students belong more to the parents and not to the school.
--Submitted by a parent

'Ethical diversity' ? A diversity of ethics? Berkshire is the 'little district that could' (and does. Good class sizes, strong academic core, excellent teachers, caring community. -Berkshire Graduate
--Submitted by a former student

As an actual student I can say the review from march was a very biased review. I see almost everyday a teacher helping numerous students with their respective subject. The one major complaint against berkshire isn't even their fault. It is that now with the new OGT they really have to rework the science and social studies, making it almost impossible to do more than one highr science such as AP Biology/ Chemistry, or Physics.
--Submitted by a student

Berkshire jr./sr. highschool puts way too much emphasis on sports and not enough on academics, the teacher involvement in anything non-athletic is basically non-existant and everyone has a communication problem-no one wants to talk to anyone so if anything important was ever planned, there would be serious problems so half the things planned wouldn't be do-able because of the time restraints after wasting precious time being confused
--Submitted by a student