Ferrell Middle School

I disagree with the only other person who reviewed this school. Though as we all know, these are our opinions so the only way to know better than what we state, is to look into it for yourself.
This is a great school, the principle (Mrs. French) is AMAZING-​knows most all of the students by name, even the 6^th graders. My child is a good girl-​her average yearly GPA is a 3.9. I think that being separated from boys is a great idea because the girls can focus on their studies rather than on the boys (don’t act like you can’t relate, or did you forget how it is to be a teen with raging hormones?). In my opinion, they need to create an all girls high school as well-​but the county won’t, nor those parents who think their 2 cents is needed (if you don’t support single gender schools and have no intentions of enrolling your child in one-​keep your opinion to yourself-​this obviously doesn’t apply to you and we don’t need your voice heard in regards to this matter).
At any rate, the area does kinda suck but having a magnet school in the area is just a tactic to bring/​clean up the surrounding neighborhood, or so I assume.
The school is old, obviously not the employees faults but not filthy. I believe the maintenance/​cleaning crew has won an award for 2 yrs in a row now for their team/​performance.
The curriculum is challenging-​but maybe that’s because my daughter is in all advanced courses-​yes, every last one (yes-​I am a proud mother, but I am sure you get that by all I’ve said thus far).
I have no complaints of the staff. The teachers communicate well, and the office staff are courteous. The HOST program is great and the HOST staff… well I couldn’t ask for better.
My daughter has been on the school’s soccer team and also in band and I’ll be adding Golf Academy to the list for this upcoming school year.
Overall, this has been an excellent experience. I drive 20 mins. out of my way (taking Expressway of course, and tack on another 15 mins. to get to my job), but it is worth it to me. We fully intend on finishing out her middle school experience at Ferrell.
My daughter loves the school and if she loves it, then I love it too. But a lot of the girls love the school and make good grades (of course not all)-so that should speak for something!
Oh-​and they do have school dances where the boys from the all boys prep school (Franklin I believe) come to attend. The girls also play their sports right before the all boys prep so there’s a chance to mingle there for a few… and also in the summer HOST program, it is co-​ed. So see? Not JUST all girls-​they so get some boy interaction, it’s just not on a daily which is fine by me! Besides, most girls in this age group would rather be around girls… this is the age range where they start to blossom.
Oh, this is an Apple certified school, so each girl is assigned an iPad to carry throughout the day.
Check it out-​only you can decide what you believe is best for your daughter. I only see benefits for mine.
This is an A rated school. It is new, I believe only 3 yrs old, but trust me, your child can reap more benefits by attending this school than a co-​ed or traditional school. Go see for yourself :)
Oh, and this review is not up for debate. I’m not interested in hearing the confrontational parent who wants to argue single gender schools, this is just my review on my daughters school, that we so love.

This school was alright during my time there. It focuses as a magnet technology school, but there really is not that much of a focus on technology that you cannot find in other places. The staff’s teams were a bad idea in my opinion and kept students highly divided depending on what team they were on, never-​the-​less the school had some fun field trips though we were stripped of some because of some bad seeds in the class.