Dallas Can Academy Charter

This school has really improved in the last year or so. The new principal and his leadership team have really turned the school around and have made it student and parent friendly. Even his own son went to the school. I would give this school a chance if your child needs additional support and help. My son is now in college...the first in our family.
--Submitted by a parent

I've been VERY happy with this school and how well my son has done here. He did well in elementary school, but when he hit puberty at age 11, the middle of 5th grade, it seemed like a bomb went off in his head. We have been through 6 years of hell, moving from one school to another. Some he just didn't do well in, two he got kicked out of. It's been a nightmare. But then we moved to Dallas and someone told me about Dallas CAN!. I checked into it and it sounded good - being designed for troubled kids, kids who might not graduate, it was just what my son needed. He actually fit in, made friends, felt like the teachers liked him & were there to help him. He wore his uniform everyday, did his homework, finally got the good grades I always knew he could. THANKS!
--Submitted by a parent

A great school for your child to attend for a education and job oppunities especially if he/she has a child they have a daycare in the inside to help with attendence problems if they would need it. Also they are really serious about graduating and helping the children become something.
--Submitted by a parent

I can honestly say that Dallas Can Academy Ross Ave is a great school.The staff makes sure that students are taking good care of.They make sure that students are in the right grade and that they recieve all the credits the need in order to past to the next grade.My daughter is attending Dallas Can this year she has never been so happy to go to school.She is now passing and even thinking about college she wants to major in social worker in c.p.s. in rape cases.My daughter is now pregnant.They even provide parenting classes for both mom and dad and even students that are not parents to prepare them for when they do become parents.They have a program that helps pregnant girls and their baby's father called Pregnant Related Services and they put the girls on bedrest and bring them their work that way they wont fall behind.
--Submitted by Candy Ramirez, a parent

I can say that Dallas Can Academy has some teachers that do not really pay attention to the academic needs of the children. They grade them on being present and in ther chairs everday. If they miss a day they can make it up by sitting in the counslers office and they are given nothing to study. Al they talk about is going to the club and all the fun she had at the club. They say it is a 0 tolerance school. They have student that have been in trouble more than several times and are still there. Yet you have other students with first time offenses being thrown out for being in the wrong place at the worn time. I call this favoritism.
--Submitted by a parent

i think that this school should be shut down, with such low performance, i see absolutely no progress in DALLAS CAN, its very sad to see our childrens education go to waste.
--Submitted by Brenda Estrada, a parent

The teachers and staff are encouraging to the students. The only problem I have had is that everything is done through the counselors, and my child does not have a very respondent one. I have to leave messages with the secretary so he can't say they were not received or an attempt was not made. My child has talked about dropping out, but has been encouraged by staff members to graduate. She has been ill and the school has worked with us to get her work in order to keep her grades up.
--Submitted by a parent