This is one of the worst school to put your special needs child in. My son has Autism, Adhd and ODD. We moved in the area on January 2024. I thought sending my son to this school will be great because I use to go to this school called Allen before it became it was Kennedy. This school doesn't help your kids learn anything..They let your kids play around and do whatever they want to do. Mr. Fields (Special Needs Teacher) should be suspended and should never be around kids, he yells and screaming at kids and doesn't teach them anything, My son would come home saying he hasn't learned anything and that the teacher gives him a Chromebook to play on as if was at home on the weekends. One day, on my way picking up my son from school, I saw my son and two other teachers (Fields and Haywood) on a wet and cold day at the school park allowing my son alone play on the soak and wet slides, I was so upset asking the teachers "Why is my son not inside the building with the rest of the students? Why you have my son outside playing on the slides, It's wet and cold out here." They're responses that "My son ran out the building and that they decided to let him play until I got there. My son's clothes and shoes were soaked and wet. Lucky..I did a small prayer hoping he doesn't get sick. Ms. Doyle is a Special ED Resource Teacher as well, I had a ARD meeting with her a few times, She wasn't nice at all when I met her. She came to my car one day and told me "Is you the mother of the child" I said yes I am. She fingered crossed me and told me "Good luck" I was so bothered why she said that me. So I asked her at the ARD meeting why she told me that, Mrs. Doyle said I am trying to help you but you are not listening to me and flat out lied to me in front of the administration officer and said that I called her a "Angry White Woman" Like what? I didn't tell her that. Like wooow...I never said that and I said to her "You are going straight to hell for lying on me. I feel she is a racist. I felt like I was be harassed and attacked for no reason at all by her regarding my son. Ms. Hall wasn't a great teacher as well. I never met her and didn't know she was one of my son's other teacher until I get a phone call from the principal saying for me to talk to my son because he did something which I didn't recall my son doing anything what the teachers were saying he has done. My son was on the phone crying saying Ms. Hall jacked him on the desk and grab him by his collar shirt and she scratched him. As a parent, I immediately went to the school to find out what was going on with child being hurt by an adult. I took pictures of my son where (Ms. Hall) scratched him, I as a parent was devastated. I called the police. It took the officer almost 3 hours to come to the school. Finally when the officer arrived. I talked the officer about the abusive teacher laying hands on my child and a week passed by under investigation. I was told by a sergeant officer "there's nothing we can do" because we also had statements among the teachers as well. I asked the officer what was being said by the teachers, He said it was confidential. I felt in my heart that the teachers were making a false statements/report about just to have him kicked out at Kennedy. After at all, things just kept getting worse and worse. My son tell me that the teachers is cursing at him and threatening to hurt him. Another ARD meeting occurred, (Doyle, Principal, Field and Administrator) asking me to consider moving my son to a different school because they said my son wasn't a great fit for this school and that they don't have the resources that he needs. My question is why did they wait 2 1/2 months close to the ending of the school year to say something? That doesn't make any sense. They also didn't tell me whether my son passed to the next grade or not on the last day of school. Parents, I recommend you not to send your children to this school if they're special needs. Our child with special needs need love and care from teachers from school. Not unprofessional teachers who want to just get a degree just make money and treat our kids ugly. I hope my experience from Kennedy Elementary helped others. God Bless. read more

This is my sons first year here I'm disappointed in what he says about ms S Moore how she screams at the kids always is on her phone always on calls he also told me about the rats in her room read more

This is the Kennedy-Allen consolidated school. I wasn't initially a fan of the new principal but she has grown on me. I can still say she isn't necessarily the best they've had. Additionally, my sister seems to believe that, "All of the good teachers left". Both of my nieces went here and my sister was disappointed that my youngest neice didn't get to experience some of those better teachers that my older neice had. However, she is doing great, academically, and getting exposed to a lot of things that will prepare her for life and career. The school is doing pretty well, I would say. read more

My son just started kindergarten here, and I'll say so far, I like what I see. His teacher is so compassionate and understanding, which is kind of hard to find nowadays. I am so thankful for her. The school is nice, teachers faculty even the school grounds are nice, just wish we (parents) could be there, more involved. But with everything that has gone on in schools I can understand why the security is out the whazoo. read more