Peak Advantage

Dear "Peak prep is an excellent school for any student. The learning environment is great and so are the teachers. I think that many people's reviews on this site are negative, because their children are not able to challenge themselves or they just are jealous of the excellent quality of education. (Peak is a student friendly campus and any action is only for a student to learn and excell). Peak has given and will keep giving wonderful learning experiances. That is why it is the 11th best school in the nation and will only get better and better. Only excellence will do" You need to go back to this school. 1. *so great, and so are the teachers. 2. No comma after negative. 3. "e themselves or they just are" either needs a comma, a semicolon with the "or" removed, or needs to be separated into two sentences. 4. *excel 5. *experiences I can see that you did not attend this school. If you did, I will be sure not to allow my child the same fate.
--Submitted by a parent

Worst School in Dallas. They Think They Are A Good school, But Kids Get Kicked out all The Time For Some Of the Dumbest Reasons Ever. There is A lot of Traffic In A Small School & Decisions are Based on What the Teachers Want.
--Submitted by a teacher

Peak prep is an excellent school for any student. The learning environment is great and so are the teachers. I think that many people's reviews on this site are negative, because their children are not able to challenge themselves or they just are jealous of the excellent quality of education. (Peak is a student friendly campus and any action is only for a student to learn and excell). Peak has given and will keep giving wonderful learning experiances. That is why it is the 11th best school in the nation and will only get better and better. Only excellence will do!

Peak preparatory is an unsuccessful mediocre school. You get detention for 3 hours after and before school for asking a question withot raising your hands. If your uniform is out of order you get detention for 4 hours after school. Since all of them are mexicans if your white they will beat you up.They give you random tests and if you fail then they kick you out of the school.

School is obsessed with TAKS and testing. Has not figured out yet that you can't fatten a calf by weighing it. As a result both students and teachers suffer with the lack of creativity allowed in the classroom in teaching and learning. Although demanding students to be accountable and responsible for actions and choices, overly concerned with silly rules where a minor uniform infraction results in the same detention time as a classroom disruption. Detention is run much llike a POW or concentration camp (missing are the yellow stars, growling dogs, and clubbing) where students sit at attention, forced to stare straight ahead without moving except for an occasional blink for a minimum of an hour. Surely there is a better use of time. Many teachers are inexperienced and are weak in classroom management. Detention is handed out rather than finding ways to engage students and positive discipline. On the positive side, classes are small (compared to DISD) and are single gender. Separating boys and girls at this age has definite advantages. Charter holder Uplift seems to be having growing pains like middle schoolers as they build out their adminstrative layers and add more schools.
--Submitted by a parent

My son was at Laureate Prep for a week before I pulled him out and placed him back in his old school. As previous posted have mentioned, this school is not interested in talking to parents or increaing their involvement. I had a real problem with not getting my emails answered, getting dismissed by the directors when I wanted to speak with them, and their closed-door policy (parents are not allowed in the school). This is by no means a negative against the teachers but the school's leadership. I hope they improve their attitude towards parents.
--Submitted by a parent

peak is so strict . we got to wear silly uniforms and silly shoes. And we have to do summer packets and read books during the summer and we have to attend summer session while we are still supposed to be in our summer vacations. we have to enter very early in the morning and come out really late in the afternoon.we got to go to school really early like 3 or 2 weeks before DISD AND EVERY OTHER district..PARENTS GET YOUR KIDS IN OTHER SCHOOLS NOT LIKE THIS ONE!! I AM A POOR TORTURED STUDENT IN THIS HORRIBLE SCHOOL.

Peak Prep is a great school if you're into the college ready, strict, stressful, high expectation school thing. Ask any student there and they'll say the absolutly hate it. I know I do. Instead of helping me, they stress me out, and make it even harder on us. We're not perfect, only human.
--Submitted by a student

This is the best school ever and all of the staff/teahers are just outstanding individuals. This school should be nationally recgonized for their help to its surrounding community. I myself am a former Peak student, and I learned more in the three years there than I ever have. I Love Peak!

We transferred from DISD. I have a child in the upper campus and the lower campus. I have to say I am very impressed with not only the level of academics, but the fact that the kids are challenged to be responsible and accountable. Likewise, Peak instills in them a spirit of excellence and a sense of responsibility and higher ethic. That's something I didn't see in public education. My only complaint is that the school s clerical administration seem to be disorganized and uninformed.
--Submitted by a parent