John Adams in the 80s and beyond was a great school then it started to change in the mid 90s till now. at one point until a couple of years ago it was so bad that there were always about five squad cars in front of the school at any given time. The school has changed and the laws are becoming more strict on dress code and behavior. The faculty is good they get better students each year who care about their education and their future attending the school and because of that it's making the school better all around. John Adams public school has so much to offer children and so much opportunity to offer children that if you live in the neighborhood and you're serious about a great education for free I recommend John Adams YABC Program as well. You can go to school at night and still get a diploma. John Adams is slowly getting rid of all the bad apples that attended that school and they're filling it up with children who want to learn and get a great education. I think the faculty really cares about its students and they want to see the children get ahead. The school is Enormous. the graduation rate is not where it should be but I think within 10 years this is going to be another fantastic school once again. read more

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This school served me back in1980. It was not bad, it was a pretty good school. I'm the one that failed myself by cutting classes back then and not getting my education... So I don't know how much it has changed, but I wish I had stayed in school... read more

Graduated from there in 2019 it is not the best school and the staff isn't that great. The hallways always smelled like mj and sometimes you would watch people doing the nasty in the stairs or just skipping classes there. If you have a lot of potential I say you go look for a school that can enhance that potential. Trust me I've seen some people do good and others bad and I think that depends on the person. Some people I graduated with went into John jay in the hope of becoming lawyers or engineers some are now graduating from that some went to the army and others went into the musical, fashion and art industry. When I was in this school my first day there I went to the gym bathroom and I found extensions on the sink and pads on the wall. Every week a fight would break out, they even had metal detectors which honestly didn't help much people still managed to bring in drugs. This school will help you in you have potential but it will also burn you out. And for those students like myself who are no where bad and nowhere great we get to settle for the minimum of what they give us. When I was there only the teacher offices had new ac while us the students had to settle for fans that barley even worked or got the entire class. When I was there there would be many false fire alarms bc of students pulling the fire alarms just so they could skip, there was an isis bomb e-mail threat to the school, a flea or lice infestation that even got to the news and cop cars parked outside everyday. Ever since I left I found out a teacher was fired after making a female student uncomfortable with a sexual sign he made. There are some good and fun teachers but some of the students take away from that by creating chaos and the school doesn't fund to computers or musical equipment or other classes. While there any time on a computer we would be dealing with computers most of them missing keys or just wouldn't work them and there were only two are teachers in the whole school that I met. Most of the equipment for other classes would be already broken or would end up being destroyed by the students. The hallways were allayed bad during summer everyone sweaty and sticky clashing against each other to make it to the other class while the popular kids would randomly stop in the middle of hallways to talk to their friends. Substitute teachers aren't respected at all whenever there was one the entire class just did what they wanted and brought in friends from other classes to skip in there they wouldn't respect the subs at all even screaming back at them or just mocking them. Personally for me high school wasn't a good experience at all I wanted out since I got there I wanted to go somewhere where people wouldn't act so stupid and childish. This school could be great if there was more fund going to every class not just the sports and if the students and teachers respected each other. While I was there I met nasty people but I also met some people who have gone off to really make a name out of themselves no matter how much work they were drowning in. Also the diversity wasn't enough for me it was a culture shock scary at the beginning but later it opened my mind more but I did forget so much of my Spanish bc no one spoke Spanish good there And there wasn't many Hispanic students to go to. This school has potential but when I was there it was no where to be found and idk how it's going right now but I hope it's gets better for the future students. read more

I am a soon to be graduate and as I read these reviews it is complete bs. There's very little help given to you and as we are remotely learning it's even harder to reach out and get any sort of response. Most importantly students are rarely to never informed about anything involving changes. I signed up for early graduation given false information. I was told id get my advanced AND id to be completely done with school on January 25th. But neither of those statements are true and I wasn't informed about it or corrected until a couple of weeks ago when I asked to make sure. The amount of emotional trama the extra work has given to me really put a toll on my performance overall, I am very livid to sat the least read more

As a soon to be former student this this school is terrible, I applied for early gradation and upon that I was given a lot of work to complete by a certain time. The new work and the regular school work caused me to have many sleepless nights and break downs, but I completed my work with the promise I'll be done with school by January 25th, 2021. Without the school informing me I had to find out I'm not graduating until the 26th on top of that I'm going to have tot stay in school until January 29th, 2021. With all that said that's enough to sue the school for mental trauma. read more