I can't express how wonderful AJA has been for our kids over the last 5 years. They use a…read moreProject-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum, where my kids have gained skills crucial to success later in life: teamwork, communication, creativity, executive functioning, but most of all CONFIDENCE. PBLs take a kid's natural curiosity in a subject and show them how to combine ALL their school subjects (STEM, Social Studies, Language Arts, Hebrew, art and music) to present what they've learned. The kids learn how to present starting in kindergarten-- I'll never forget the first time my kid presented their Portfolio, I had no idea this 5 year old was capable of being so prepared, articulate, and confident. My jaw must've dropped a foot. I was just blown away!!! This child comes with some extremely unique, diagnosed developmental and learning challenges that, I've realized in the years since, would likely be too challenging to work with in a public school class three times bigger than his is. At AJA my kids get so much individual support, not just from their teachers but from every adult in the building. Academically, my kids are thriving. The expectations are high, and the teachers have been so talented and creative in their approaches to supporting my kids (not by coincidence-- they are constantly doing new faculty trainings). Our more neurotypical child has thrived and been encouraged to really push herself as well, and as a result has discovered proclivities for math specifically. I've wondered if, in a much larger class, this kiddo might have been kind of lost in the mix as a good-enough B student. Money well spent in my opinion! And then there's what brought us here: the Jewish education. I can see the way the school integrates Jewish values into the kids' daily lives. I see my children actually enjoy participation in Jewish culture and tradition, and apply lessons from our ancient texts to their modern day lives. They know exactly who they are and where they came from. They teach me stuff now!!! It makes a Jewish mother proud.

Awful and abusive admin with no experience. Subpar teaching with unqualified teachers. Very little…read morematerial covered academically. And despite deep promises, absolutely no support for ADHD and other special needs. These people cannot get their stuff together! I love that my boy got a quality religious education. But his regular academics were beyond awful. Terrible classroom management. My son was bullied and nothing was done about it. They finally have a new board, but I would wait 5 more years to see if they iron out their issues before I sent my child there!

Bastrop Montessori has been an amazing school for my children. My daughter received an exceptional…read morePre-K foundation in both math and language, which allowed her to test above her peer group nationwide. I firmly believe Bastrop Montessori played a direct role in building her academic skills and, just as importantly, her confidence. As a new kindergartner starting at new school this year, she felt prepared, capable, and confident - something I truly credit to the strong foundation she received at Bastrop Montessori. We are incredibly grateful for the education and care our children have received here.

My children started a month and just in this short period of time, they have transitioned to B.M…read more quicker than any other class they have been in. They take good care and consideration when it comes to the children.

Being the smallest school in the biggest district does affect the ability of a team to do its…read moreupmost. Being capable of making it to playoffs says a lot about our sports overall. Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. To learn you must take action and not be a lazy bum. "People being annoying" is a matter of opinion and I find people who say that are the annoying ones. "From 1881 to the 1930's, we had no particular mascot. We were the "Maroons" because our athletic team "colors" became maroon and white somewhere around 1920. By the 1930s, some Texas high schools decided they needed an animal mascot, but we resisted the trend until 1953 when two new high schools were formed in Austin. The students of the new schools chose to be the "Knights" and the "Rebels". Some began to ask "What's a Maroon"? To answer that question, then and now, we just tell them that a "Maroon" is someone who wears maroon and boosts Austin High. The first published cartoon featuring the modern mascot was in the September 20, 1957 Austin Maroon Newspaper, where the Mascot (about 1.3 meters tall and hairy) is attacking the football mascot of one foe or another. We think the artist/creator/ "father" of the mascot was Gilbert Reyes, a 1959 graduate of the school. Maroo appeared as an engraved "cut" in the September 28, 1956, and January 30, 1957 newspapers as part of a feature story about "picking a mascot". Artist Windy Winn is also mentioned as involved in the development of our cartoon mascot. Everyone draws Mister Maroo their own way. That's the way we get so many designs. Each of us has our favorites. The school Archives has a collection of more than 100 different versions. But, essentially, the Mascot is supposed to be the "embodiment of the Maroon Spirit". The "Mister Maroo" Mascot was officially adopted by the Student Council in 1965-66 during the administration of President Grady Rylander. Mr. Maroo is a symbol. He doesn't speak - you have to look him in the eye to see if he's your friend or your foe. He often is drawn wearing Adidas or Nike tennis shoes. And the beanie...beanies at one time were the traditional headwear for a freshman. Since Maroo never goes to class, he's still a freshman, more than 50 years later." http://austin.austinschools.org/our-school/history

I'm only rating the track at the school, not the school itself!…read more The track is great and already almost full stars for just being open to the public. There is an amazing view of the downtown skyline from the track and it's right next to the river. What a neat place for a high school. The track is standard and enough surrounding light at night that you can see where you're going. Ample parking along the street and parking lot so it's all very convenient.

Akins is definitely one of the schools that exists. Some of the teachers are pretty cool and…read moreSwaggy, but a few are not. Passing periods are WAY too short, and the tardy policy needs a major overhaul.

Texas School For The Blind And visually impaired TSBVI is the best place ever. I am visually…read moreimpaired and I go there. They have a summer program and it's like a camp. Super fun. All of the teachers and STAFF understand you and they you will think of them as family after the camp. There is 1-2 weeks. It is also a school in the school year. They also have programs. In the school year. (So camp). I 100% recommended y'all check this out. It is for blind. Visually impaired. And visually impaired or blind with multiple disabilities.

Great organization and great kids! Check in with Gloria to start volunteering and help out the…read morestudents. Lots of construction has been going on so park in the entrance area. The kids put on talent shows, plays, and have a lot of activities.

Very nice campus and a huge basketball gym with a divider so you can have two games going on at…read moreonce.

I told my son how was the years in kipp he was in kipp for kinder to 4th grade, and he said this "…read moreOn kinder I had a teacher (don't wanna say names ) that was really rude to me just because he was getting started. He also told me that there were a lot of favoritism in that teacher, and he said that manly all the kids of his class that were great in learning that had good grades and atitude she cared about but for students that also includes my son she really gived them the equal care or way of learning , and she also on the first day of school didnt pay attention on my sons name for the bus he was assigned that was closest to my location, and she said my sons name to ride on a different bus. our full family was scared cause we didn't knew were he was then we found him in the school getting carried by a mother. now in 1st grade, it was great no drama no problems, but the cuncern was manly in the teacher. cause she wasn't really great at her job of teaching. we really didn't like her for her way of teaching. and now 2nd grade, my son told me the teacher was not that good at her job. She was all the time in her phone during events and when my son and his classmates had worksheets in stead of helping she was in her phone, and know 3 grade, This was the least favorite year of my son, he had 3 teachers. her main teacher had a lots of problems with him. I do recall that he was almost every month or weeks getting in trouble, but the point is that his teacher had favoritism there was 4 kids that were manly the smart ones, in that year my son was great good grades and kinda bad with attitude, and my son was also in there level, but the main reason why we think the teacher favored them its cause they were the popular students and many girls liked them, so she favord them of their appierence. and his 2nd teacher of 3rd grade had anger issues ( I dont want to offend no one but she got angry for the smallest thing my son and his classmates did ) so yea, she got really angry for small things. And now for her 3rd teacher of 3rd grade, he explained to me that she was the worst of his teachers he ever expireance, she had a lot of favoritism. also kinda angry issue. the same thing for the 1st teacher of 3rd grade and kinda of his 2nd teacher of 3rd grade. Now for 4th grade, it was really normal he had 2 teachers. the 2nd teacher he told me that was the best of his intire life, she was kind, treated everyone equally and great to make a chat with her, she also helped people when needed, she gived them a lot of homework so that they could get better, he also kinda liked his main teacher the only problem was that he kinda got scared when she got angry. and that is it for kipp, not really recommended he told me that it was rare to find a nice great teacher.

This review is based solely on Ms. Arthur's Pre-K class. She is very patient and kind to all her…read morestudents. She keeps them busy with crafts, learning activities, science, classroom pets and many more activities. My son had a hard time learning to share and communicate his frustrations in the beginning of the school year. But now he loves to share and help others. And has learned to verbalize his frustrations instead of throwing fits or hurting others. He'll have the occasional bad day but for the most part, he has made a huge improvement from the first week of school. And I thank Ms. Arthur for that. I could tell she didn't want to say he was "being bad" so she'd say, "he made a couple bad choices today, but we talked about them." I will be sad to see him leave her class this year. But I'm sure she will leave a positive impact on my son's education. He is off to a great start already! And they have Brighter Bites here!

As a mama to 4 and with a husband who has a job that has moved us around we have been enrolled in a…read moretotal of 5/6 public schools throughout Texas with our oldest being just 11. We even had a year of homeschooling in this mix. We came to Wimberley in August 2019 and have kids at Scudder AND the middle school. I have never seen a school with teachers or staff so invested in their students. I have never seen my children thrive the way they have in their short time here. They aren't just a number. The teachers ask about their weekend, notice their hair cut and take interest in what they like. They encourage them to try new things and build them up with words of affirmation daily! We have a son who has ADHD and Ms. Caldwell has been the biggest angel to him. She understands him, gives grace and is patient always. She loves him and teaches him in more ways than just academics. My faith has been restored in public schools after being here and I will forever be thankful we found this sweet and small town! We are now being relocated again and the bar has been set HIGH. I now have a different perspective for what's a "great school." It's not how new it is or how much technology they have or if they have the latest and greatest. It's not any of those things. It's how invested they are, how involved is their community, how involved are the parents? What is the class size like? How are they teaching your children and what are they teaching your children? Academics get you so far in life but teaching them to be kind, independent, hard working and so much more builds character and sets them up for a successful future AND wimberley ISD has done just this! Thank you for loving my babies and giving us the experience no other school ever has! @southernsudsandsimpleliving

We, like the other reviewer, wanted nothing more than to love this school. However, after one…read moremonth of our kindergartener's cries about being hurt and then witnessing it myself when I was told by my 5 year old to "come protect" him on the playground; we removed him from the Wimberley public school system. I hope ours was an isolated experience and that bullying isn't as prevalent and normalized as it seems at this school; but when your five year old is punched in the face on the second day of school and it only goes downhill from there, you have to wonder. Prior to removing our son from school we did seek help from the faculty and while they responded with ideas to help our son like, letting him go to another room rather than the playground, we felt their inability to acknowledge and rectify the actual problem was unacceptable. We left the meeting feeling like our family was the problem and our expectations of safety and supervision were not attainable without isolating our son from the rest of the students in the school. One of the reasons we moved to Wimberley were the school reviews and the student/teacher ratio being 15 to 1. My son's kinder class had 20 students to 1 this year. Multiple school staff members told me that they had too many kids to watch them all, all the time, including when sending them down the hall where there could be 4-5 of them unattended in the bathroom at one time. When asked about a rover TA or hall monitor I was told they didn't do that; but my son could be taken to the nurse to use the bathroom separately if that's what he needed so he wasn't afraid to go to the bathroom (he was hit there among other incidents). I'm happy to say that after 2 days in a school with "nice kids who don't hit me" my son is starting be okay with going school again. As it turns out, and contrary to what the individuals working at Scudder believe, it's not an unrealistic expectation for kids to be monitored closely or to think that hitting, punching, and shoving others to the ground repeatedly shouldn't be normalized. Beware of this school and please listen to your kids if they go to Scudder and tell you they are experiencing bullying. I would have kept believing it wasn't as bad as my kid was saying (what we were told by a teacher) if I hadn't sat in the parking lot, watched him be hurt and then had to stop it myself because no one was paying attention to him.