Irving L. Branch Elementary School

Posted September 18, 2009

I think it's real easy for those parents who gave this school a poor rating. But what they need to do is get up and help the school, teachers, etc. This school provides a great deal considering the budget cutbacks year after year. As far as extracurricular activities most elementary schools don't offer these activities. Our youth center on base offers a great deal of these activities. The school does offer PE as they work towards the President's Fitness Challenge every year. They do offer art class as well, parents assist with this particular class. I think the fact that this school encourages parent invovlement is a positive thing.
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Posted June 24, 2009

Branch Elementary is an excellent school. My son has been there two years and my daughter was there from Kindergarden and is now at Desert Highschool located here on Edwards AFB too. The teachers have always been helpful and kept me well informed with my son. The parent teacher interaction is wonderful. I have found that boys are a lot different than girls but the his teachers have helped keep him on track, offered ideas for to help him and kept me well informed of his status at all times.
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Posted October 23, 2008

Moved here from Virginia at the beginning of the school year. The rants and raves about this school were exceptional, but the school has yet to live up to all the hoopla. The budget has been drastically cut and has been the main contributor to this years unimaginable problems. We are seeing over 30 students per classroom, no art program, no P.E. program, some weeks the children don't even get to go to the library. There is a district nurse, but this school is in such a remote location that it a joke to expect the nurse to be available when needed on a moments notice. I haven't seen this since my elementary experience over 30 years ago in a small farming town in PA and even we had a school nurse. Civilians are the majority at this school, so it isn't even getting the federally allotted money the military gives.
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Posted October 7, 2008

Although this school brags about its high test scores, it is the ONLY thing it has going for it. The teachers and staff are unprofessional, the classrooms are terribly overcrowded, and the only reason for the high scores is the teachers teach the test, and many students come from districts with much stronger curriculum. There are no extra-curricular activities, partly because most of the teachers will not give any of their time. If parents don't volunteer to do it, including art and P.E, it doesn't happen. The district seems to have very little interest in giving the kids the best education, but rather taking the easy way out. There is no discipline, control, or oversight.
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