I was completely unhappy with this school. I pulled my daughter out 2 months into first grade. In first grade she was in class with second and third graders. She started telling me inappropriate things that she was hearing from the older kids. At recess she told me about multiple fights happening on the playground. I addressed the teacher a few times about the violence and the language, she said she can't discuss other kids behavior. Did not take any accountability or did not give me any reassurance that my 6 year wouldn't be exposed to this type of behavior anymore. And to top it off, their method of teaching and strategies were terrible. They provided no guidance or confidence to the younger students, my daughter was terrified to go to school, she said her teacher was mean and wouldn't help her! I felt awful for putting her in that school. I was relieved when I took her out, I seen a huge change within the week at her new school, eager to learn and happy! And one other thing, they found a bed bug in her class, they didn't call the families, they put a note in the kids backpack. Well grandma picked her up that day so I didn't see the letter until later that evening. We should have been informed via phone or text so we could have taken the proper precautions the minute we picked our little ones up! So disappointing, horrible school. read more

TERRIBLE management with the students. My son was getting severely bullied, and staff did NOTHIN.

My student went there from preschool to sixth grade and I took them out as soon as possible because when I found out happened there, there's multiple fights every single year. The teachers do nothing to help it. They investigate on students but nothing ever happened. They make kids do stuff to help the school and nothing ever happens. They do projects every single year about helping the school and helping the environment but nothing ever happens. They don't fix anything and the same things happen every single year the last principal got fired from stealing money. No wonder they the school is bad. read more

My child was bullied, spit on, choked and tormented. The principal and teachers want to claim a fostering of anti-bullying and leadership but that's the furthest thing. The music teacher isn't Jolly at all, in fact she's a sarcastic butt. Removing our child from this hell hole is the best for us. read more

I am a former student and attended from preschool through 8th grade, and am about to enter my Junior year of High School (wish me luck), and after reading some reviews I've decided to share my experience with this school. First off, there is no way to sugarcoat it so I'm not even going to try- the teachers FUCKING SUCK at their jobs, they have very little control over the classrooms and the ones that do only control the kids by running the strictest room you've ever seen. The curriculum was fairly advanced, but the methods employed by teachers were simply abhorrent, overcomplicated, and quite frankly, just stupid. Additionally, teachers were CLUELESS to the incredible bullying problem that was happening, and even when teachers were made aware of bullying they rarely did anything. I remember once I was literally JUMPED during recess and had a black eye, busted lip, bloody nose, and a bruise on my forehead, and instead of punishing the 3 girls responsible, they took myself, my friend who witnessed the event, and the 3 girls into the hallway TOGETHER and sat us all in a circle to "talk about what may or may not have happened", and the girls fed the teacher a load of shit and she, of course, bought it because why on Earth would they lie about such a thing? So I, yes ME, was told to leave THEM alone from now on and they were not punished at all. This is not the only incident of this nature, but this review is already getting pretty long so I'll wrap it up soon (also I was consistently bullied for several years straight by the same student, and made the staff and principals aware of this several times, and no one did a fucking thing about it). Also, there was major hypocrisy from staff about rules, usually sex-based discrimination, as teachers, usually regardless of their own gender, favorited the girls in class as opposed to us guys. For example, a small group of guys would be hanging out in the library and a teacher would break them up for "causing a disturbance", but did nothing about the group of 13 girls all giggling and yelling and talking about god-knows-what for the whole class, or when a my friend got slapped in the face by a girl and when he blocked the second slap and put her arm into a restraining position (he was slightly trained in martial arts), HE was the one who got suspended and she only got put in a different class for one day. So to summarize, this school is home to a major bullying problem, shitty teachers, overly strict teachers who get high off power trips, and sexist discrimination, among other things. If you are a parent who is considering sending your child here, if you have other options, choose those. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE!!! read more

I went to this school in 2004-2008 and looking at the reviews i see nothing has changed. I will say being an adult their curriculum screwed me up, when I went to a school that didn't teach like they do, I was way behind. They used to use the stamp game to teach basic math and I would sit at my counter with 2 hours of homework every night and cry. I am horrible at math to this day because I never learned the basic fundamentals. This school made me hate school. In 2nd grade you shouldn't be mixed with 8th graders, we would watch the older kids fight all the time. We would have frequent lice outbreaks and the school would shut down. It was gravely underfunded then. Our gym flooded, didn't have access to it for over a year and our library was in a very small classroom. My teacher was like a drill sergeant for 1st-3rd graders, she would make kids cry and tell them to get over it. I know it was a while ago but I'm angry to this day about the lack of education this school provided me with. read more

Believe the negative reviews of this school. Removing my child from this school in the Fall will be one of the easiest decisions I've ever made as a mom. My child has been bullied, stolen from, dismissed and called out of his name! The principals (Head and Assistant) are absolutely clueless and useless when it comes to dealing with issues involving these students. My child's teacher I believe has a mean streak. Mr. Martin is one of those people who is super nice in person but the way he interacts with those kids sometimes says differently. The nice act in our face is cool but the kids will tell you what's going on when you're not there. His T.A. (Miss Cassie) is some dismissive, rude, victim playing young lady who needs a heck of a lot of training. But what else can you expect when she's learning from watching the teacher interact with the children. I cannot wait to not return my child here next year. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere. read more

My son has been there for years, in the beginning, it was a great school. In the last 3 years, everything has gone downhill. The last 2 years have been horrible we will not be returning. He has been bullied not by students but by teachers. He has had an IEP, more than once, and my more than one teacher when he did a good job on an assignment he was asked how much did his mom do? One teacher while virtual told him when she did know I was listening, "You have an IEP I find it hard to believe you got 100% your mom must have done the work." My son is very smart, he is dyslexic and needs to work on reading and writing but is more than capable of getting A's. The lesson work decreased as well in the early grades they would practice writing every day. He has not been asked to write more than a paragraph in 3 years. No research paper, creative writing assignments, or even an essay. He is now in summer tutoring in the hopes to improve his writing before school starts in the fall. read more

I wasn't even going to leave a review on this place called a school since I was so disgusted with what goes on there and the treatment they gave my daughter. However after thinking over a long period of time I figured I needed too so other parents can make an informative decision whether they want their child to possibly go thru the same things. We put our daughter in Creative Montessori of Southgate for the 20-18-2019 school year. One of the WORSE mistakes in my life. What they did to my daughter mentally and physically was disgusting. 1st of. She was in the 6th grade. This clown outfit runs it like this. In her class was 4th, 5th and 6th grade students. How do you teach with 3 different grades in class? 1 teacher and 1 assistant. They only had a couple tables. 1st come 1st gets them. The rest sit on the floor all day. Now I will say my daughter is a talker. I won't deny that. However there were many in the class that were far worse and out of control. I know this because 1 scared student who didn't want to be seen talking to us walked alongside of us one day and told us things without looking at us because she said she was afraid to be seen doing it. She most of the kids in that class were way out of control but just like my daughter told me the teacher Cranford picked her out to be the whipping post. This so called teacher had my daughter coming home crying several times. She bullied my daughter worse than the kids did. She purposely wanted to fail my daughter and in the end said she wanted her expelled right in front of my daughter to another teacher. Things she did. Well there was work my daughter turned in that we know for a fact yet this teacher said it was never turned in. She was purposely trying to fail her. She talked to my daughter like crap. Then one day last year at Easter time they were having a movie for the kids on Good Friday. So wha did Cranford do. This. She lured my daughter into getting mad then said she was disrespectful the day before the movie. Then she went to another teacher right in front of my daughter talking to her. Next thing you know that teacher said my daughter was disrespectful. The plan went into effect the next day for the movie. Cranford made my daughter sit on the hard hallway floor all thru the movie as punishment. As if that weren't enough they then made her do what they say they can do, COMMUNITY SERVICE. She forced her to go out and pick up all the trash around the track. Between sitting on the hallway floor 1 1/2 and this trash pickup my daughter's back hurt bad. She ended up at urgent care. Her back hurt for 2 weeks after that. They also passed out Easter candy to all the kids EXDEPT my daughter. Then they have the so called student advocate named Rachel, LOL. She struts around like she is some prima donna. Well we had a major car accident last Feb that all 3 of us were lucky not to be killed according to the police on the scene. 2 fractures in my back. 2 in my wife's back and my daughter had a concussion. This student advocate had the nerve to tell my daughter she was milking and using the car accident. Then she tells my daughter the car accident wasn't the end of the world. Guess what it almost was for all 3 of us. Another day to send my daughter home crying. Then all of a sudden Cranford the teacher said 2 other parents complained about us so we were no longer allowed to come upstairs at the end of the school day to pick up our daughter like everyone else does. Found out why. My daughter said she would say mean things as she was leaving and treat her like crap. This teacher with serious issues, didn't want us to see that. So then we set up a meeting with , lol, headmaster Carter. Talk about an arrogant and rude person. So at the meeting it wasn't 3 min before he threatened to end the meeting because he "didn't like my tone" while I was complaining. In the meeting were Myself, my wife, carter, Cranford and Rachel. Amazing huh? 2 he threatened to end the meeting. The 3rd time when I made an official complaint about the teacher and student advocate he said, "this meeting is now over, put your co0mplaint in writing". Like that was going to go somewhere. Got mad when I caught Rachel in a lie and called her a liar. So the meeting was over he said. Ends the meeting with us because he didn't like what we had to say but it was alright for him to be sarcastic, rude and arrogant to us. Now after picking up our daughter she came out crying and told us what Cranford said. She stood right next to my daughter as my daughter was gathering her things and said to another teacher very loud, "I WANT HERE EXPELLED NOW" in front of my daughter while pointing at her. That was my daughter's last day there. I said I would go to jail for truancy before putting my daughter in that sick toxic situation. Now it is amazing how told work wasn't turned in ect and giving her very bad grades. Put her in a new school for the final 2 months and suddenly was getting A's and B's. Amazing.BEWARE read more