This school looks like a top rated school on the outside but on the inside, it's not as good as it…read moreseems, there are rats and ants and rodents in the building, and during lunch in the canteen you have to hear some admin yell into the microphone telling kids something like 'please sit down' or 'on the left side we have spicy chicken sandwich, tacos, and hot dog! and on the right side we have sloppy Joe, tacos, and pizza!' or 'in 10 minutes we're going to start cleaning up' and it's loud and annoying, and last year I thought 5 minutes passing period was tight, now they made it 4 minutes because they thought kids were talking in the halls not getting to their classes, and 3 minutes to get from P4/R8 to Homeroom is absolutely crazy, they're not considering the fact that I have to run up the stairs from room 141 to 311 and use the third floor toilet on the way and many kids have to go from the outside to floor 3 and teachers act like it's easy for kids to get from P4/R8 to homeroom when in fact it's very tight and after the homeroom bell I see so many kids still in the hallways, I am almost late on R days, in the toilets I see many kids doing weird things like starting 'diddy' parties and doing fights and getting on their phones, there is usually pee on the ground, and the floor 2 toilets are usually closed, also Ms Blossom (7th grade history teacher) apparently bullies kids according to other reviews on Lanier Middle School (HISD), I never had her but I know she treats kids like they're in juvenile detention, but I had a teacher named Ms Ward last year, most of the times she yelled at kids at 1000% volume for the silliest things like one kid got an answer wrong, or you put work in the wrong bin, and also this year 2026-2027 there are much more homework given to you than last year, the north and south patios stopped opening up, which makes the canteen and chess patio so much crowded, and I can't even find a place to sit, the chess patio lady told me not to sit on a box but I had no table to sit to so I decided to sit on a box, many fights happen almost daily, and admin just favour the bad kids because they look innocent, then punish the ones who only broke one rule, and the leadership selection system is bad as well, I saw the girls who broke many rules like eating in class, using phone before 16:00, and more, but they still got selected to be a leader, while I don't break any rules and I was rejected, and at the end of the day when people are hanging out at the front entrance, there is one person yelling into the megaphone telling kids to go home, well I have seen some decent teachers, many of them quit, like Mr Wynn, he was a decent/good teacher I had for 6th grade science 2 years ago but he quit when I entered 7th grade. And I see many kids dating in the school as well, A few months ago I saw 2 kids kissing, and for 2025-2026 year the admins at Lanier said 'whatever day it wasn't tomorrow it will be, so if it's a purple day today, it will be red day tomorrow, and vice versa' but one day school was out unexpectedly, and the next day I brought my supplies for a red day but they told me to go to P1, not R1. Afternoon pups party doesn't work like you think, most of them they're like 'oh yeah we're going to have some food and then watch a movie and music and activities', but most of the time you only eat and don't do activities or music or movie, and you eat you have to clean the classroom then get ready to go because apparently the last 20 minutes of pups you have to clean up, so it only leaves 20 minutes of pups party (well now pups is 45 minutes), and floors 1 and 2 had one way hallways, which kind of didn't make sense because floor 3 you walk on the right side, so why not for floors 1 and 2 you make it walk on the right side because that will reduce the risk of being late. Parents, think twice before sending your kids to this school, so many rodents and dust and mold growing in classrooms and the Air Conditioning breaks during summer/spring and heater breaks during fall/winter, and no soap or towels in the toilets. Please don't go here if you don't want to suffer.