This place is an awesome school! Great staff and very clean. Not to mention the building always…read moreseems to be the perfect temperature!

Great school! We have two children in elementary there and they have learned and grown so much…read more The teachers truly care about the students and do a great job helping them individually.

This elementary is a great small school. It has came a very long way with servicing every student…read more I love the small class sizes and the personalized learning in every grade. Mrs. Rouse she cares and definitely make the right choices for her students learning.

This is my daughter's first year in school, and our experience at Grant Ranch has been nothing but…read morepositive. Her teacher is extremely invested, knowledgeable, kind, aware, and devoted to my daughter and her classmates. The principal, while new at GR this year, has decades of genuine experience in Denver schools, and has already created a super productive and lively culture. My husband, son and I have joined our daughter at school for multiple events so far this fall, and everyone on campus has been incredibly welcoming and pleasant in their exchanges. Also, our daughter's academic situation has improved by very obvious and measurable amounts. Our son looks forward to starting kindergarten next year, and we plan on making Grant Ranch our permanent home as long as we live in the neighborhood!!

This school sucks. The students here have no respect for each other of the staff. The students…read moreoften cuss out teachers and the teachers constantly kick students out. The education is behind and no one knows what they're doing.

Johnson Elementary has been such a wonderful experience for myself and my family. I have had 3 of…read moremy kids attend this school in the last 5 years. The teachers that my children have had from 2nd to 5th grade have all been such excellent educators to my kids and great communicators with me as the parent. Doreen in the office is always extremely helpful. We recently relocated to a different area, so I had to transfer my kids to a different school. However, myself and my kids will always remember the great experience we had at Johnson Elementary.

Upon officially being old enough to post my experience attending this school, I want to voice my…read moretime going here. For starters, it was an easy and welcoming enrollment. The majority of the teachers and faculty and sweet and caring and genuine people. However, there were a few times that really impacted me because of teachers/faculty. A teacher who I believe still works at this school, Laura Eisele (English/ELA teacher) made my time at this school an absolute living hell from my first day to my last. My first day attending, my phone was sticking out of my back pocket just a smidge, and I had not been messing with it or using it and it was in no way a distraction and nobody was paying any mind to it. She walked behind me, angrily told me to put it in my backpack, and I had been confused cause I forgot the phone was even on me, and she yelled at me in front of everyone and told me "well I don't know what they did at your old school but we don't do that" and she made me feel VERY embarrassed and uncomfortable. From then on she was an absolute bitch to every student in her class besides the quiet ones. Not a day went by where we weren't screamed at or made to feel bad about ourselves. I had missed school for a few weeks due to a family death once, and when I came back and was trying to get caught up on missed work she once again embarrassed me in front of everybody and made me feel like absolute shit for missing school and then made me feel stupid for showing up again. I couldn't tell you a damn thing she taught me during my time here either because I was also walking on eggshells in her class and I had intense anxiety around her. Secondly, it was in my health records that I struggled with one of my kidneys and had issues with fainting during certain activities. I had missed the day to do the mile run in gym class because of this, and my mom even told a faculty member about my issue and that she did not want me doing the mile run and I had a doctors note to go with it. On the day of make-ups for students who missed the mile run, I was forced to attend and upon telling the gym teacher I didn't think I could, ESPECIALLY without a water bottle, she told me to walk it. This was embarrassing as I was the only student walking and it took me 15 minutes to complete. When I got done walking this, I had to rush from the track to my next class in science. Upon arriving to this next class (late), my teacher immediately sent me to the nurse because I had been very visibly pale and faint. I did faint and the nurse just had me lie down, gave me crackers, and had me drink water and sent me back to class. Thirdly, the principal at the time of when I attended had a daughter also attending the school in my grade. Her and her friends were very much so favorited by faculty and staff of the school and they also were mean girls to other students. If anyone stood up for themselves against these girls, they would run to the daughter's mom (the principal) and we would be shushed for trying to prevent bullying to ourselves. Fourthly, a teacher assistant faculty member would favorite students a lot too. One lunch period my friend began bleeding from her period all over her pants, and I had rushed her to the lunchroom bathroom to help her clean up and provide her with a tampon. This faculty member came in yelling at us and forced us out of the bathroom while she had blood all over herself. But she allowed the principal's daughter and her friend to be in the bathroom whenever and however long for whatever reason. I begged my mom so hard to be homeschooled and removed from this school. I would have rather been learning alone and secluded from other people than continue being at this school. The day I left this school knowing I'd never have to return was one of the BEST days of my life and super memorable for all the right reasons. There were good parts of this school like certain teachers, certain classes, and my bus driver I had.

Vista has some great teachers, good clubs, and an outstanding head counselor. But the…read moreadministration is awful, specifically one of the VPs and the principal who seams to know everyone's name but isn't really anyone's pal. They fail to force out bad teachers. They marginalize advanced kids who don't fit into their cookie-cutter curriculum. They don't give counselors enough authority, so every request that's out-of-the-ordinary is a 3 month undefined process that can be vetoed at any time. They pay lip service to "caring for and respecting the individual," but they're committed to preserving the status quo at the expense of the individual -- except when IEPs for delayed kids require individual accommodation; then no expense is too great and no exception is too unreasonable. If your kid is precocious and defines themselves by something other than a varsity sport, then do your family a favor and check out concurrent enrollment options through community college and an online charter school like Colorado Preparatory Academy (CPA). CPA gives your kid unrestricted access to sit-down community college classes, and the State pays for it. The courses are taught by instructors who hold at least a Masters in their field, and the courses count toward college. Also, those courses count as two high school semesters for each one college semester: so double high school credit. Your kid can earn enough State-funded college credits to enter CU, CSU, Mines, or Metro as a college junior while still participating in activities through Vista or any other high school. My kids took advantage of that wonderful option and have never been happier or more engaged.

Mt. Vista is one of the top public High Schools in the region, and my two boys who are attending…read morethe school have had a wonderful experience overall. There are great teachers who genuinely care and are engaged, wonderful sports programs, and an overall supportive environment. Since Mt. Vista has an official STEM degree, they also have great facilities and equipment that offer kids unique and fun learning opportunities. Good kids overall, well mannered and come from solid homes. I highly recommend over the other High Schools in the area.

During my time at this school, I was assigned responsibilities well beyond my role, including…read morecovering ALL kindergarten library times, leading lunch announcements over the microphone, and supervising lunch/recess/hallway lines. Despite these expectations, I received little to no support from the administration. The demands of these responsibilities often conflicted with one another. My coworkers regularly expressed that the lunchroom was difficult to manage without my presence, while I was simultaneously expected to cover all kindergarten library times. This left me feeling like I was expected to be in two places at once and made it impossible to fully meet the needs of either responsibility. The principal rarely interacted with staff and visited my classroom only once every couple of months, often calling me by the wrong name. The vice principal consistently failed to follow through with student discipline and frequently required educational assistants to apologize for appropriately enforcing school expectations. Student behavior was often managed inconsistently. I was told by a kindergartener that the vice principal had given them a phone to watch TikTok. In another concerning situation, a fourth-grade female student who reported being punched in the stomach by a male classmate was allowed to decide whether her parents would be informed. Too often, it felt as though students, rather than staff, were in control. School administrators would often reprimand staff for not awarding Golden Tickets to students whenever a parent complained, even when those students had not demonstrated the appropriate behavior to earn the recognition that day. This created inconsistency in the school's behavior management system and undermined staff members' professional judgment. Instead of teaching students appropriate coping skills, conflict resolution, or self-regulation strategies, disruptive behavior was frequently rewarded with toys or playtime in the office. This approach undermined classroom expectations and made it difficult to maintain a safe, respectful learning environment. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this school as a workplace due to the lack of administrative support, unrealistic workload expectations, inconsistent discipline practices, and overall school culture. Lastly, my child attended this school and was not consistently challenged with work that matched their abilities or academic potential.

I cannot say enough good things about this school. We moved to Parker a few years ago and left…read morebehind a wonderful school in our prior hometown. GRE has exceeded all of our expectations. Dr. Brown, the principal, is so invested in her school, the teachers, and the students. The front office staff is wonderful and friendly, and every teacher my kids have had here (3rd through 5th grade) has been fantastic. The PTO is likewise supportive and involved without being clique-ish and overbearing. This place is truly the BEST.