Mountain Shadows School

I am very pleased with the education our 4th grader received here. The teacher had extra challenging activities for the higher children. Yes, the students had to be willing to work without being pushed, but the opportunity was there and those truly advanced seemed to take it. The principal and vice principal have both been friendly and willing to speak to me whenever I needed to. I was worried that the 4th grade had large classes (28) compared to the 3rd grade at (19). Five of the six teachers handled them well. One had a very noisy class all of the time.
--Submitted by a parent

If there was an option for a negative number of stars I would have chosen that. My daughter has been at this school for two years and I have been continuously disappointed. The administration is anything but helpful. My daughter is bored in school and when I asked what teacher I could get her into next year so she'd be challenged I was told I have no choice, that the computer decides and that all their teachers are equal. I have many friends with kids in my daughters grade and in comparing notes, not all their teachers are equal. When I left a message for the principal to call me because I'd like to meet with him, he didn't even return my call. The vice principal called me and told me the same thing. If you want to be involved in your childs' education - this school is NOT for you!
--Submitted by a parent

My son ended up in this school after a redrawing of boundrys. He attended 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades in this school. His first grade teacher was great, his second grade was ok, his third grade teacher could care less. The principle is dismissive at best. There is negative parent involvement. Admittedly they have a challenging student body but while my son is content not to have to work at school I am not content with him being ignored while they deal with the problems. I am going to join the rest of my nieghborhood and enroll him elsewhere. For those who are looking I suggest you look into some of the nieghboring schools. There are some decent ones not far away.
--Submitted by a parent

My daughters's class only has about 14 students so I was thinking she might get some extra attention this year. Last year she fell behind in a bigger class on another track. Unfortunately the teacher has had some problems and misses several days a week in class. I feel like she has fallen even further behind. Overall, over the last couple of years I haven't been impressed at all with this school. I've tried to get a permit at another school and will try again, but I may be forced to move to get her a better education.
--Submitted by a parent

I have 3 children that go to this school. One in 1 grade , 3 grade, and 5 grade. Two of them get bullied all the time and the teachers nor the principal ( Mr. Jacobs ) or asst. principal ( Ms. Biebo) will do anything about it. All they keep saying is ' It's just drama ', yet it had gotten to the point of spreading nasty rumors and actual physical hitting and beating my children. But if they try to protect themselves they get in trouble. What are the schools coming to when you don't know if your children are going to be safe.
--Submitted by a parent

both of my children attend to mountain shadows I have a 1st grader and 4th grader love the school great teachers great enviroment . I thinks its a parent responsability to be on top of your child education if youare involved everything its easy for your kids , and we have a really nice principal mr Jacobs its always walking around the schools making sure everything its ok . he would always answr your questions no matter what . great man.
--Submitted by a parent

I felt that my childs teacher was unwilling to challange her needs because it created extra work for him. I did not get any additional support from the principal (although he has now changed) when I sought help. I was anxious to leave the school and am now thrilled with the education my child is getting at another local public elementary school.
--Submitted by a parent

Both my children attend Mountain Shadows Elementary School. One is in 3rd grade and the other is in Kindergarten. I like how the school has activities or plays going on to involve the parents. I have received plenty of feedback from both of my children's teachers. Good or Bad. I believe that it is also the parent's responsibility to take proper action if you don't receive the feedback that you should be getting from your children's teacher. Take initiative! I think that I do not like is the fund raisers.
--Submitted by Charity Clark, a parent

This school is only an average school. It has a lot of very new teachers and a lot of very old teachers and seem to me to be very unorganized. There are probably only 10% of the teachers who have organized classroom. Their weakness is they do not keep the parents informed or updated on the students. If your student is doing poorly, you don't usually know until report cards come out. I have never seen a school like this one, where parents are not a priority in their communications. Teachers are not responsive to requests and the principal does not know what she's doing.
--Submitted by a parent