Just finished our first year here. Great environment for preschoolers. Creative, nurturing, caring…read moreteachers. Outstanding care!

We absolutely love this preschool. Everyone is extremely friendly, loving to the children and it is…read morevery clean. Our daughter attends 2 days a week and begs to go every day. She always comes home excited to tell us about how much fun her day was and all that she learned. I can not say enough good things about Children's Center....

The week of April 15, 2024 has been "luxury week" aka "penalty week" as 4th and 5th grade students…read moreare subjected to getting extra recess, donuts, gum, etc. if they perform well on their standardized tests. If you don't pass them, you are publicly embarrassed while all your peers "get" to enjoy these "luxuries" in front of you. This is harmful for the students who "get" to participate as they are heartbroken for their peers, causes stress and anxiety, creates a fear of mistakes, and overall limited growth mindset. I've tried to change the minds of staff at the school, with evidence from studies that show penalties for testing are harmful academically, emotionally, and psychologically and not only extinguish inspiration but carry lasting impacts on our children. Our children are our future. Let's ensure they are treated with dignity and respect and not hold them accountable for mismatching teaching styles with learning styles. I believe teachers should be paid more and revered because they literally touch our future, but this... this is tragic.

The principal here does an incredible job. I believe her name is Stephanie Jackman and we could not…read morebe more proud of her operating this entity in our community. From parents, staff members to the children at the school everyone hold her in the highest regard and it is 100% based on quality of personal character. I do not know if she will ever see these words but I hope someone does and understands the value this community holes for her. My eldest daughter just finished elementary school and my youngest daughter will 100% attend Lafayette Elementary School

The first year for our kids at Lafayette Elementary, and we like it well enough. It's a fairly…read moretraditional elementary school, the teachers are very dedicated, the new principal works hard, and there are lots of after-school clubs and activities for the kids.

Adams School District claims to have the best schools around and I have come to believe it. We have…read morelittle ones going here and they love it. They get up excited to go to school which says much for the teachers and staff. Stuckey has the usual grade school stuff-big yard, playground equipment, etc. and any time I have come to pick kids up after school there is always someone out front ready to pounce on tiny miscreants, aleways reminding the kids to cross at the cross walk. I feel good that someone is keeping an eye on the kids. I realize other schools do thisI want to remark on how appreciated their vigilance is...and how good we feel about this grade school.

As a long-time Centennial parent with six kids who have attended here, I've seen this school from…read morejust about every angle. My children have had IEPs, 504 plans, and been in gifted and talented programming, so this isn't a one-lane experience. What I've consistently seen is a staff that is thoughtful, responsive, and genuinely invested in kids as individuals. Centennial provides structure, support, and accountability, and in our experience, that balance has helped our kids grow. Academically, my kids have been both challenged and supported. Communication has been consistent. Centennial is a diverse, Title I school, and that diversity is one of its strengths. Many families, including mine, value the sense of community and belonging that comes with it. Our children have been known, supported, and cared for in ways that matter.

We moved to the area from a higher income county. Our Child has and IEP. (A child should have an…read moreIEP to protect them from getting expelled from school. It reminds the School Districts that it has a responsibility to provide education to all kids, regardless of their particular type of disability.) Adams County School District is far less prepared to handle students with emotional needs (IEPs) than our previous county School District (SD) was. (We're not wimpy parents and don't treat our kids like spoiled brats. But we have a brain, and can see what works and what does not with our child.) We were told that Centennial E was one of two schools that Adams School District said was 'prepared' to work with kids with IEP issues and thus we were shuffled off to Centennial, 10 miles from our home. (There is a perfectly good and highly rated Elementary (E) a two minute walk from our house, but they can not take our child there.) Centennial E is rated as a low performing school, on two different state level measures. I think this is mainly because of the neighborhood in which it is located. It tends to be properties with less value than surrounding areas; not that this area can be considered 'low income'. However, there is a trailer park adjacent to the school. Even though our child was shuffled off to Centennial E, because of their IEP, we found the school unable to deal effectively with students who have IEP needs. The schools seems more focused on punishing kids than working with the kids to teach them skills to overcome whatever issue is holding them back, or periodically getting in their way. Looking back over the last year, our child did not seem to have a pathway that allowed them to work their way back into a regular classroom, as they did in our previous county SD. Every time my child would make great gains in learning how to control their issue and climb the ladder to (the school's definition of what was acceptable) the goal of inclusion in a normal classroom environment, a slip would drag him all the way back down to the bottom of the ladder. He would have to start all over again. (The school's definition of what was acceptable behavior seemed to me to be more focused on how little disruption any child would cause to a teacher; a la Pink Floyd's The Wall.) This becomes very defeating to a child. This 'AN' room seems more like a jail to us. Our child was in class with other children who are similarly challenged and similarly punished, and it seems to me that this begins to instill the idea in them that they are bad kids. Many of them showed signs of not caring anymore about becoming better. In addition to all that, we have had to work with our child over the summer just to make sure that they have learned everything that they should, according to (or to stay up with) the Common Core standards. My child is bright, but a lot of what should have been covered in their education was not. We are dissatisfied and looking for other options. I friend that we had made at the School, who had a very bright child, would tell us stories from a different perspective. Her son was in the highest level classes available at the school. (There where other schools in the area, some advanced. But the more advanced schools had waiting lists or lottery systems to wait through.) This boy would often come home upset because he was constantly being picked on and challenged for being 'smart'. The boy is somewhat athletic. He could play any type of sport. We were told that the teachers would see this 'bullying' and do nothing, deny it happened, or say something the the effect of 'boys will be boys' or 'there is nothing we can do'. It seems that being smart is looked down on in this neighborhood, while being athletic; i.e. soccer, football, was to be exalted. I think if you cared enough to take an interest in the School that your kids attend, you should take your kids out of this school as fast as possible, at least until the SD brought in to this school some wholesale change in thought-process, and took some time to improve the management and performance of this School.

The staff treated me will i am spindle needs and thos school made me feel welcome the teachers are…read moregreat

My daughter has been at this school since kindergarten. She is now in 5th grade. We love this…read moreschool so much, so I am very surprised to see low ratings from others. Would definitely recommend this to anyone!

Trash all over the school grounds. That says alot about the school. Serious eye sore. Should be…read morecleaned up.