I'm not sure how you review a school but this school has a lot of quality staff who are dedicated…read moreto helping the students learn. Middle school is always a challenging age level but the students and staff here work well together. Most of the students from here go to Lake Park HS and should be prepared to work well when they get there.

What a great visit. I went here while performing my work related duties. I had the pleasure of…read moremeeting staff and students. What a well run school with respectful students. I look forward to our next visit

Lunch food is really pretty good. Nice extra curricular and choice of classes. Very pleased with…read moregym class see image below. Nice neighborhood some issues with recreational drug usage and strict rules in school.

Had the pleasure of checking out the school, talking to family and comparing to my own childs…read moremiddle school. I have to say, as well as my nephew is doing, I have to say, they must be doing something right. I visited the school for my nephews graduation ceremony and the will say that the ceremony was wonderful. It went smooth and wonderful between the acknowledgements and diploma distribution. The auditorium was comfortable and environmentally controlled. With all the people that were there, it wasnt muggy or hot in the least bit. The paintings each eighth grader made was a wonderful touch, you can really tell they are organized and time was taken to make it memorable. Each family was given 6 tickets for family. My comparison, well, we received only 4 tickets and regardless, it was standing room only with MANY parents having to stand outside since there was NO ROOM. We managed to squeeze in between some folks in the bleachers designated for staff and limited folding chairs for the rest. Terrible. There was no band, no gowns, no paintings or any fanfare of any time and this is disappointing for a school located in Glen Ellyn; an affluent community. Good school and with the funds/staff to get things done right and organized the way a truly professionally run school should be.

I went to this middle school for a total of 3 years. I absolutely hated EVERY SECOND of it... Let…read moreme start with the atmosphere of the school... DEAD. Almost all the teachers either seem so out of it they'd rather be in an actual prison, or so deeply depressed in their own lives to actually teach to their struggling students. Seriously, my old Italian teacher would literally tell my friend about her dying marriage in the middle of class. There is a large sum of teachers here who, for lack of a better term, seriously give no fucks. Their teachings methods are LAUGHABLE at best and they do literally nothing aside from patronize students and make it seem like it's entirely their fault. They treat the children here like literal inmates! Kids I know now, call the school Indian Jail, because of how POORLY we were treated. Bullying is handled SO POORLY, and that's coming from someone who was BEAT UP in this school!! And I was being watched by a gym teacher (who I can't name for legal reasons unfortunately. But I'll tell you this, she's obese and has metal in her knees) . This woman watched as I was beaten up, thrown around, kicked, yelled at and tossed onto the floor for literal months straight. At one point, I was gutted so hard my knee kicked up the sink and it SLAMMED back down on the pipe making a loud noise that echoed through the locker room. And all this woman did was scold me for being loud and not telling her what happened. I have no sympathy for her. I was literally suicidal over it and told school officials who did absolutely nothing about it. Now let's talk about the jokes that have running the Dean's office. First off, they go through Deans quicker than chain smokers finishing off cigarette packs. And the people they pick to be Deans, always have this tendency to be insanely horrible. One of the Deans (who I again can't mention) brought out a MEGAPHONE during our lunch period to dismiss us to eat... A MEGAPHONE! What are you a warden commanding your inmates? Seriously, half the time I was here it was plainly obvious that all the adults working here were just sad and trying to fulfill the fantasy of being some sort of supreme authority figure. Like, pal this is a middle school... not a correctional facility!?! Another thing that completely unnerved me when I attended, was the fact that (at least when I went) the entire school was like a time capsule back to 1975. The locker rooms were in such depraved condition that the paint from the lockers was peeling off and piled on the floor. Kids would scrape graffiti onto doors because the paint was so easy to chip off. There were water stains on more than half of the ceiling tiles. Lights would flicker and buzz, there were rumored to be rats in the basement, walls and doors had wood that was SO OLD it would give you splinters, and there was GRIME and MOLD littered across the locker room. Even though no one used the showers? How does that even happen? Pipes and electrical wires would break almost weekly. One time, a pipe burst in the commons during school... and the principal made us stay and EAT WHILE IT WAS BEING FIXED. Forget that your students could get sprayed with water or have a ceiling tile hit them. No, no, no... let's keep them at school instead of dismissing them for a pipe bursting! The food at the school is downright horrendous... I knew kids who got food poisoning from it. I knew kids who got their lunch taken from them constantly. Some kids would even STARVE because the "lunch monitors" would hold them back from getting their food because some kids were "too loud". Awesome, let's starve these growing kids and punish them for talking during their break period... really? What kind of behavior does this aim to fix or teach? Not to mention that the tables and floors were rarely cleaned well. So all the tables and seats would be sticky to the touch. I will say this one positive thing about the school... there are good teachers within it's hellish walls. But don't get me wrong here... there are TERRIBLE ones!!! I will name the good teachers I had at this school because they deserve praise: Ms. Luzietti, Mr. Parker, Mrs. Fornek and Mr. Biba. Those are the only fun and good teachers that I can remember at this school. And they didn't do the following: punish their students for having needs or questions, shame their students, or talk about their very personal issues with their students. And I can say this, I actually learned and had good memories in their classrooms. Mr. Parker actually taught me math, Ms. Luzietti actually taught me language arts, Mrs. Fornek made history fun, and Mr. Biba is just awesome no questions lol. But the rest of them are subpar are WORSE. Overall, if you live in the Addison area... please send your kids to a different middle school... Go to Woodale or Peacock. Because if this place left me with literal trauma and PTSD (I honestly wish I was joking but I'm not) your kid won't survive... trust me. Thanks for reading my essay

This school is bad, I've been here for 2 years and this is from a students perspective, it's…read morehorrible, if there's bullying they do nothing, the most they do is write and apology, but that barely happens, the new deans are a joke, One dean screams on a microphone at lunch telling us to be quiet, and one is completely stupid, I got in trouble, and the dean started bringing his political views into the discussion, im in the 7th grade you don't bring up your political views to a 12 year old, the school is utter stupid 81% of the school is failing math In 2012, a girl tied herself up in the bathroom and pretended to be raped and the school was on lock down for 3 hours I can't find the specific year but, a former PTA member stole 9,700 dollars from the school And there are many reviews from former teachers and parents who say the kids are treated unfairly. Most of the teachers are fine ( some are horrible but that's besides the point) it's the deans that are an utter joke They suck at there job, once you have a record of trouble at the school, they don't ask questions they get you in trouble immediately. They say they check the cameras but they don't. Last year someone used my ID number to buy themselves lunch ( I don't tell anyone my ID number btw) me and my friend went to the main office to complain and they said oh we'll check the cameras, but it's like a credit card you still have to pay it, and my friend said she knew the first like 3 digits but not the number, and the person in the main office tried arguing with me saying I'm telling people my ID, and i never paid it because I never buy school lunch On to school lunch It's horrible, it's disgusting, and i know people who it's made sick, but some kids have no choice to eat it. I once had a lunch detention and in the lunch detention room the lady didn't let me eat my lunch she said, you have to get a school lunch of the day, which is disgusting, someone else decided no and he got a cookie and a water bottle and the lady took it away and yelled at him, when I told my mom she was pissed because we should be able to eat what we want, and the rest of my lunch detentions I was able to eat my lunch but that shouldn't have happened in the first place. In conclusion this school sucks.

Review This school…read morehas a lot of great educational caring and outstanding teachers and faculty members. Unfortunately, I can't speak for all, and it's unfortunate that there is some teachers and faculty members that pick and choose when they want to perform their duties and respond to things and important situations. As a parent of a student that attends that school for the last three years it's frustrating to not get your concerns heard in a timely manner, especially when it has to do with your child's safety and education. I reached out to Mr. Powers, plenty of times via phone and left a email and even spoke to his secretary, and he never responded until I reached out to the school principal. Only after the fact that I reached out to the principal, did he get back to me it seemed like when things got complicated and there was a miscommunication with faculty it was easier to just not deal with me. I can understand not getting back to someone in a couple days, but leaving the situation ignored for weeks on end is not only unprofessional but rude. His lack of not only miscommunication but actual education importance to some students is noticeable . I finally heard from him today and it makes me question if he was even going to reach out the principal was sitting right next to him and now he was trying to apologize. He waited until the last day of school to contact me. It was very obvious how he never intended to deal with the situation and doesn't want to deal with it. We are moving out of district now, so it was easier for him to wait until last minute. As a parent, the education and safety of my child is very important to me and when you contact a staff member and are not able to ever hear from them and you feel like they're dodging you it's overwhelmingly frustrating. Towards the end of the school year he made me and my children feel targeted and discriminated. I'm glad we won't have to deal with a vice principal like this anymore. Actions speak loud when you truly care about your students and their education and safety.

Cannot get ahold of anyone at MS. No call backs! Worst response from faculty (councilor) EVER!…read more My kid was failing a class.. . I've called 5/6 times NOTHING! Maybe because I don't give enough as a booster!

I currently attend Maine South and what I can say is that the administration does not care about…read morethe student body. They only show affection for other staff members. The students are very inclusive and welcoming here, but the teachers and staff treat them like animals. Security is not existent here, drugs abuse among good, well respected students is out of control, and all the school does is continues changing course materials and curriculums to become more progressive. The number of threatening emails, phone calls, and letters sent by 'Assistant Principals' is outrageous. There is definitely many class-action lawsuits in the making here...