Honestly the only good thing about this school is their marching band, drill team, cheer, and some…read morestaff. Although the grading system is fair and some staff are nice they do not treat kids the same or the yard staff nicely. Not to mention about how rude the kids are there especially when there is no need to be rude. And not to mention I've heard they don't really ever provide enough supplies such as working computers or enough pencils anything like that to students or teachers causing the teachers to have to buy student supplies out their own wallet or bank accounts. Their test scores are low and don't reach standards which is disappointing. I'd say the worse thing about this school though is the dress code! I find it so odd to make elementary kids to wear white button ups especially knowing most of those kids are messy and in no time going to get the shirt dirty and in my opinion the dress code for both elementary and middle school are rather ugly and don't even match school colors with their logo of the bulldog or the marching band, cheer, and drill. Because how are you going to go from black, white, and red to black, baby blue, white, navy blue, and dark blue? Like might as well mix them and make it purple because why we playing mix match ? And don't even get me started on the sweater policy just two colors and they can't even have graphics on them?! Forbid an elementary school student got a sweater with their favorite character on it and they can't even wear it! Let kids be kids personally I think if the sweater doesn't have any curse words and bad meanings on it it's perfectly fine but that's just me I guess.

CON: I am a student in harry bridges DONT recommend first of all teachers get mad at you for…read moretrying to speak up or get to know other students will not let you use the restroom even in a emergency some kid pee there pants cause of this! And teachers almost never show up, we never learn anything new we do the same thing everyday for both semesters and dress code is insane like what do you mean I can only wear sweaters that are blue or grey???? BY THE WAY DONT TELL THE CONESLUER ANYTHINGGG! THEY WILL TELL YOUR PARENTTSSS!!!!!!!! PRO: I am a student and I DO recommend HBSS. Some teachers are way better than others and make it better. I LOVE NURSE KELLY even though I hardly get sick she's been there (:!!! Awesome friends that will help you. there grading system is fair and make learning fun...... friends are the only motivation without them your Lowkey cooked Overall the school is fine. But I'm pretty bias and personally even though it has more cons than pro I love it.

Perhaps the school has great teachers. I'm not sure about that since I left after being treated…read moredisrespectfully by office staff. The office staff will treat you with a bad attitude, they lack communication skills, and dismiss your questions. Check out their website. It tells you how lazy they are. Almost nothing listed compared to many other schools. After they see this, (that is if they do) hopefully they improve something.

If your child gets injured, don't expect answers because the staff here is never aware about…read moresituations that deal with kids and them getting injured. All they do is talk to the teacher and that's it. sad. I wonder the horrible supervision the school has for this to happen often.

Gulf Avenue Elementary alumni my sons also attended Gulf Avenue my youngest is currently enrolled…read more He is autistic her receives many services like Occupational therapy speech therapy adaptive pe. He started in special day class and mainstreamed. Now he is in a general ed class with all supports. I highly recommend Gulf Avenue Steam magnet. I speak from my experience.

So my nephew's arm got broken by another child name Ivan Monday September 18th 2016 around 1:30 pm…read more We went to the ER he got his cast on and we went home. Tuesday morning at 9am my sister and I are back at the school for answers. The Principal Mr Cooper made it clear to us he had not spoken to any teachers or children about the incident. So Mr Cooper told my sister and I to give him to Thursday to investigate what happen Monday. Here we are at Thursday September 22nd, 2016 and we get to the school and they have nothing to tell us. Absolutely nothing. The assistant principal Mr South just like Mr Cooper down played the situation as if it was not a big deal. My 5 year old is in pain. As we're asking questions on did they speak to anyone. Mr South made it clear they have only spoken to the children. They won't allow us to speak to the teachers, Ms Rosie who is and recess monitor or give us any paperwork they have on the situation. So right now we know nothing besides a little boy name Ivan stepped on his arm twice and broke it while their was no supervision around and the school Gulf Elementary won't give us any information.

this school is getting a one star! because the teachers in broad avenue are so strict. If u wanted…read moreto complain about a teacher the teachers wont change. When I was in Mr g class he would be strict every single day saying " you guys need to prepare for middle school so I need to be mean to u" If you kept complaining about a teacher they will just ask you " maybe that's how they are " when they aren't. I HATE THE YARD LADIES BECAUSE ONE TIME ME AND MY FRIENDS WERE PLAYING AROUND ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS 38 YEAR OLD WOMAN DECIDES TO NOT ENJOY OUR LUNCH AND JUST HAVE US SIT DOWN. I wish I can file a complaint against this school. I remember when I was in 3rd grade and we went to the library and the librarian had told us that we can pick two books and mind you this was my second time going. As I went to go pick out a book I picked 2 of the same books. Then the librarian Came up to me and said you can't have 2 of the same books so I said sorry I'm gonna put one of them back all of a sudden SHE PULLED ME!!! AND THIS STUPID SCHOOL AND PRINCIPAL DIDN'T DO NOTHING!!! One more thing that I have to tell u is that when I was in 4th grade i had a teacher called "mr brennemam" on the first day he was so nice and choll but on the second day he was already strict! As this went on i decided to tell the staff that I wasn't going to go the the library after what happened. Then I tried asking my teacher he just said " oh I know" then I assumed he knew and I didn't go. He sent two of his students to come and get me and I said to them " im not going to the library" then when it finishes this teacher had the audacity to say to me and yelled at me "I AM NOT GOING TO BE WORRYING ABOUT YOU AND YOU DIDNT PARTICIPATE SO WHAT DO U WANT ME TO DO EITHER LEAVE MY CLASS OR U PARTICIPATE AND SINCE YOU DIDNT PARTICIPATE YOUR NOT GETTING CREDITED FOR PARTICIPATING" then I felt emotional but I didn't cry. SO I RECOMMEND THAT U DO NOT PUT YOUR CHILD TO THIS SCHOOL IT SUCKS.

I love this school I went here as a child now my children go here. The staff are great and very…read morehelpful. The teachers have been there since I went there and they are amazing. Mr.brenneman and Ms lacy. They are amazing. I would recommend this school for your child. The principal Ms tennette is amazing as well. They also have early start programs for the little ones and special education/IEP for students

I came here for 2 years (4th and 5th) and I loved this school!!! The principal is nice aka miss…read moretorres. Mrs. Chavez my 5th grade teacher knew what she was doing and when we all need help she helps us and whenever we have a bad day she tries to make us feel better. Mr c. Rodriguez my 4th grade teacher was a very funny teacher and he helped us when we needed help and we had classroom parties. I would also like to add ms. Cortez she wasn't my teacher but she was for college prep. At college prep we learned what a GPA is, we also learned what we can be when we grow up and how much years we had to go to college/university/law school/ trade school for. this program is only for 5th grade. I would also like to include the boys and girls club is. The boys and girls club is free if you want your child to be at the school one, but if you want to go to the main site you have to pay some money. But for me I went to the boys and girls club at this school and the staff there is nice they know how to control the kids and they have homework help. They also have programs too such as dance,art,sports, and drums (There might be more). Miss Maria (the owner kind of) knows what she's doing. If your child does something bad and gets told to stop and doesn't stop your child will then get a write up of your child gets just 1, they will get suspended from the boys and girls club for 3 days same thing for a second one. If your child gets 3 they will be suspended from the boys and girls club. This school also provides intervention/ tutoring if your child is struggling. Anyway I think you should inroll your child into Fries ave elementary. You won't regret it.

Good school but they have a shitbag of a principal Mrs. J. My kid's teacher is the best as well as…read morethe rest of the office staff especially Becky.

The kids in general are fairly well-behaved. However, there are still lots of children who have…read morezero respect for adults or other students; they do whatever they like and there are no consequences.

I came to this school 30 years ago as a kid and I am so proud that both my son's had the chance to…read morecome here too. When my son started Kindergarten he was the only kid in his class that could read and write and it was all because of this preschool. The teacher's are great and it's just an amazing little school. The only down side is that your kid must be potty trained in order to go there. Other than that I highly recommend this preschool.

The school uniform policy if unbelievably strict. The uniform colors aren't much of a bother, but…read morethe dress code is whats most strict. For the color pants, you have to wear a black or khaki pants, you can't wear sweatpants, even if they don't have many pockets, you can't wear jeans, you can't wear leggings, you can't wear hoodies (because they're "dangerous"). And I knew somebody who went to the same school a few years back. Back then, they weren't so strict about the dress code, you were able to wear jeans (just not ripped), leggings, hoodies, sweatpants, and you were also able to wear gray pants and not just black & khaki. Also one time, a friend was wearing a shirt that was slightly showing her bellybutton, and the dean (Miss Torta beck), told her to pull it down when she enters the school gates because it was "inappropriate". She was in SIXTH grade. How is showing your bellybutton so "distracting" and "inappropriate" for a 11-12 year old girl? If they are thinking that they should not work with middle schoolers it's weirdly concerning Also, they should punish kids who are bothering others straight away instead of waiting for the parents to get involved.

I love this school all the teachers are so nice and I miss all of them here is a shout out to…read moremrs.bellido,mr.myaka,mr.collins,and mrs.khoo I miss you guys so much oh I miss you to miss zopati

Well the teachers are great but the restrooms aren't,there was feces on the toilet paper and on the…read moredoor stall.I don't like poop on my shoe . I give credit to one teacher who helped us be prepared for everything .I don't know if I can tell her name but she's a nice person. Sorry teacher I'm still not good at writing yelp reviews .

This is a nice little school and it appears the students genuinely appreciate their teachers. Wow,…read morewhat a change. My niece Alyssa graduated from Elementary School and was one of the children chosen to speak. All three kids who were chosen to speak talked about how their teachers invested time with them when they had difficulty with a subject. They talked about their dreams and aspirations and spoke positive about how their teachers inspired them. Thought it was awesome.