My son started at Orchard Lane in Kindergarten and is now in sixth grade. I've been really impressed with the school overall. The teachers are highly qualified, hard working, and most do a great job communicating with parents --classroom newsletters, emails when needed, a schoolwide weekly newsletter. The curriculum seems good; my son has learned a lot. There's opportunity to go ahead if a challenge is needed (like taking a higher math level). My son has had small class sizes every year except one. Students have many arts options. In addition to regular art and music, the older grades can participate in choir, orchestra, band, or school play and these teachers do an excellent job. Sometimes there are after-school clubs offered, like Pokemon club or learning another language. The PTA (it's called Parent Faculty Council here) does a fantastic job and puts on fun events for the kids, pays for classroom field trips and school wide activities during the school day as well as hosting optional evening events (arts showcase, movie night, roller skating, trunk or treat, etc.) The PFC has a main fundraiser in the fall and your child (meaning you) will be asked to participate. It's for a good cause but if you hate fundraising, maybe just donate to it yourself. I feel that this school, like most schools in this country, could use more funding and the staff higher salaries -- but that's not specific to Orchard Lane. Our family hasn't needed to use more formalized plans or additional services for academic or behavior issues but I know they are available. The teachers have worked with us informally on getting behavior where it needs to be (trouble sitting still, overly talkative, blurting out answers and so on). I think there are plans in the future to add an outdoor/nature classroom and to update the playground. These may be expensive projects so I have no idea of a timeline -- but something to look forward to. read more

Best school ever but on school picture day they thought my brother was another person and when we got our school pictures a week or two later they had someone else's picture for my picture but they fixed it read more

The New Berlin School District (aka New Berlin Public Schools, NBPS) includes a number of schools, including: * Elementary Schools: Elmwood, Glen Park, Orchard Lane, Poplar Creek, Ronald Regan * Middle/High Schools: Eisenhower and New Berlin West The school at this location is Orchard Lane Elementary School. http://www.nbexcellence.org/schools/ol/ You can read more about the school district at their website, here: http://www.nbexcellence.org For my review on the primary high school for the school district, Eisenhower Middle/High School, go here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/schools-new-berlin-school-district-new-berlin-2#hrid:bHqmz4grZHfa9q50db2p2Q Hope that helps! read more

I went to kindergarten at Orchard Lane a little over 30 years ago and I turned out like shit.

I used to go to orchard Lane and all the time I was there the schools teaching system was shit. They were rude one of the teachers threw away my lunch for no reason and the school didn't even reimburse me for my lunch. The teachers were abusive towards students. read more