Evergreen Elementary School

Good school in general. sort of.
There are very few teachers that are really good (be lucky if your child gets them), but a lot of the teachers do not care much because of the job security in schooling. Some teachers don’t know even 5^th grade Math well enough to the point where they visibly get frustrated while teaching it and steer AWAY from Math.OMG.
You’d be intrigued to interact with Mister Sweeney — the principal. It is like talking with a politician — every bit of it.
I am saving a million words and wring just a few purely for the benefit of current and prospective parents.
Advice 1) You are required to leave items (lunch, homework etc) for your child in the OFFICE and hope your child will pick them up. Even when you’re a background checked parent, you can’t wear that visitor badge readily flashing on the front desk of office and handover item directly to your kid — even during recess. (May be we can reason out that this is fair. But…)
You’d then think the office staff will page your child /​teacher in time and then hope teacher/​child will remember to pick up item. But, according to Mr Sweeney, (and now me), you’re advised to keep calling the office to check if they did do their *stated duty* as an adult and did deliver food or homework to your child *in time*. THEY MAY NOT.
In short, don’t presume the office staff members are responsible adults, but keep checking on them just like you do on your kids, by calling them repeatedly — as per school’s suggestion.
More advices later…

This school has great teachers and principal. The school was remodeled about 2 years ago, adding a state of the art multipurpose room, 9 new green classrooms, new field, and new parking lots for staff and visitors. The API test scores have increased steadily over the years and was 954 this year. Like any school, there are outstanding teachers and some that you wished were more open to suggestions and more communicative. And the office staff could be nicer. Overall, we have been pleased with this school.