Mission Avenue Elementary School

Great school with many activities, field trips. It had 9.0 stars out of 10.0 in lical parents rating

Read reviews on other sites. Wish my child never entered this school. The mom cliques are as bad as the other reviews say. If you are not a stay at home mom that can’t be there every minute, you are trash (to the other parents and the principle). The principle is even involved in the mom cliques. They would be better off without her. I think she fuels the fire and believes the mom cliques over anyone.
Johns review is right on! The office is rude. The parking is great but there are better schools. My family and I are already looking into them.
I heard great stuff about this school but i don’t see it (only in the field trips. My child loved the zoo) We are excited about the future field trips BUT the field trips are not worth the drama. Some of the teachers are amazing.

As an extended family member of two young men who have attended elementary school here from the start, I have very positive things to say about this school. I have visited several times for extracurricular activities where students performed in the areas of music, history, performing arts, ethnic studies.
Not only were the teachers friendly and enthusiastic, they had my nephews fully engaged in the programs and proud to have us there to see their accomplishments.
I also think the parents of the students in this school deserve a lot credit as they are also very engaged and donate their time and energy in making their children’s activities and field trips above and beyond. Really a lot to be said for what a school can be even when funds are short.
Thank you for making the extended family and community so welcome.

My step-​daughter is in fifth grade here and has been since kindergarten. My wife has two older children who attended here and she raves about the school, I am not impressed however. My step-​son is brilliant but undisciplined and he was allowed to «graduate» sixth grade without doing any work at all and only getting «1’s» and «2’s» his whole career there. My oldest step-​child would’ve succeeded anywhere anyhow and still does… My fifth grade daughter has had much the same experience as my son until this year. This year I’ve been heavily involved and her teacher is very communicative and the difference has been huge.
The school goes on wonderful field trips in every grade.
The music program is awesome, my daughter has class for 30min 3x’s/week and is learning quickly.
The office staff are typically rude.
The parking lot (pickup /​drop off) is well managed and there is a great focus on child safety and using crosswalks. There’s also a crossing guard and a «lighted?» Crosswalk just for school goers.
P.E. is not a large focus but I believe funding is gone for health at most elementry schools.
The children do have a large field, two playgrounds, ball courts, basketball courts and a basebal /​kickball backstop.
The surrounding area is typical for the city except that there is an outpatient psychiatric facility about 1 mile up mission avenue. There are people often in the area that «act weird «but I’ve heard of nothing harmful from them.
I would rather my daughter been in a different school for all previous years but I am happy with her, her teacher and myself right. I wouldn’t choose to enroll another child in this school but I’m alright with my daughter finishing out this year there.