This school is amazing! It has many great opportunities for students including electives like graphic design, photography, video productions, art class, robotics, band, orchestra, guitar, choir, and dance. It also has clubs including mock trial, green team, bible club, chess club, and Jr art society. The campus is beautiful and has many plants, trees, and flowers all planted and grown by students and teachers at green team which is an after school club where students and teachers grow plants making this campus look gorgeous. There are awesome teachers that are kind and help students a lot. It is also the only middle school in the area with a track. It's amazing watching all the track and field tournaments happening all at Benton, all the middle schools come to Benton just to compete for track and field. read more

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Its ok but rivals are better. Academics are ehh. Their focus is dancing and enrichments, but not even teaching.

Staff and some teachers are horrible! I went to this school, and it is NOT a good one especially Mr. Chartier and Mrs. Pflanzer!!

The staff really cares about the students and works hard to provide a quality education. Students come here for the incredible arts classes, and may not be as motivated in science and math. I've noticed that test scores have been improving every year, and this seems to be a great school that my kids are happy to attend every day. read more

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Mr. Chartier, (idk if thats how u spell it) the P.E. teacher, told 6th grade GIRLS specifically, they have to run an extra lap because they went in the girls locker room. He literally told them they can go in the locker room once it opens and now hes yelling at them. PLEASE get a new P.E teacher this should be his 3rd strike. anyway that was all i wanted to complain about this school is good I guess read more

My kid was sexually harassed by the PE teacher and got picked on by other kids because she was black and nothing was done about it. This is not a safe school and I do not recommend. please try to keep your kid safe. thank you read more

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This is a Visual And Performing Arts middle school. There are many wonderful aspects of this school. The guitar, band, and choir classes participate in festivals, concerts, etc. The students learn their skills from incredibly passionate teachers, and then get to share it with the community. It is wonderful to watch my children grow, and improve over the years. I appreciate that they can read music, and will always be able to play an instrument. The drama shows are great to attend. The students are so excited to put shows on, and families really help to make the plays nice. The stagecraft class could use improvement. There is also Media Arts, where they use Adobe to make graphics, which is also a great skill. There is photography, cartooning, studio art, and more. The teachers love their craft, and keep the lessons fresh. Some teachers are gone more often than I would like, but that happens everywhere. It can be health issues, professional development, etc, so I wish there was a better buffer for when they were gone. The academic classes are overall great too! It does depend on the teacher, but there are many that incorporate projects that are enjoyable for the students. I wish they allowed more fun and silly school events, because the students are still kids at heart. I see posts about fights, which do happen, but it generally involves the same small group of students. There is also a lack of respect by some students, maybe MORE positive reinforcement for good behavior, assemblies, rewards, fun clubs, etc might help improve some of the bad behavior, but ultimately it comes down to parenting. The supervision aides also do an excellent job managing the kids. I wish they allowed more parent involvement as well. read more

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I've put both of my kids through Benton, and I think they have received an amazing middle school education. The block schedule allows for minimal homework, and the staff is friendly, accepting, and supportive of the students. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to volunteer and be a part of the school community. The office staff is helpful, knowledgeable, and approachable. The Principal, Ms Ridgeway, is someone parents can talk to, and kids see as authority. I love the focus on the art, while not allowing the traditional scholastic classes suffer. Benton also has more NLM Teachers of the year than any other middle school in the district! That's saying a lot! Go wolverines! read more

I like this school I see the focus on the students more and in there future.my son like the A and B day.

This middle school is horrible now. When I went there years ago it was way better. So glad my kids don't go here no more. They definitely need to have better teachers not in the educational part but when they see something bad happening to stop it (for example a child getting pushed, choked) not just act like you didn't see it. The principal now Mrs. Ridgeway she is horrible at her job and I believe racist as well she used to be a teacher. She wasn't even good as an assistant principal. She needs to be replaced. This school is all about kids fighting each other, a lot of bullying, doing drugs in the restrooms. They need security on campus and outside as well. So over seeing videos of kids fighting over dumb stuff. read more

This school is absolutely horrible! I've had personal experience at this school for two years and it made me miserable. The teachers could not give any care in the world about their students here although there are only two or three good teachers here. The kids are out of control as there is a physical fight almost once a month if you get a lucky but usually 3 times a month. I have had constant incidents here and all these teachers and principals do is wave it off and say hopefully it doesn't happen again even with threats. A boy here gave a threat to the school and was suspended for a WEEK. A week for putting these student and teachers lives in danger!! I know many students here that can say the same. It doesn't matter if you draw attention to yourself or if the student already has behavioral problems with other students the way these teachers treat these kids and the way the kids treat each other and get away with it is absolutely horrible. These teachers also don't respect 504 or IEP plans, I have both and I have been denied the things that are put on mine that these teachers has signed to respect yet they deny them. Please don't send your kids here. read more

Every school is what you as the parent reinforce with your children at home. Teach your kids to respect their teachers- can you imagine spending the day with hundreds of hormonal kids? I can't. Teens are emotional, they are going through a lot and while I sit and listen to their concerns, I also get the feedback from teachers because- hey... there are two sides to everything. Parent involvement is important. Don't complain about your school if you only step foot in it on open house. It's really difficult to respect the bad reviews when there are so many spelling errors that it's obvious mom/dad didn't make the most of Middle School either. read more

Ever since they got a new principal the school has gone downhill with many fights happening throughout the week and these fights are occurring because the principal keeps getting kids that were kicked out from other schools this is horrible he doesn't care about all the kids that go there obviously or else he would've protected the school they need to get another principal cause this one is doing a horrible job this school used to be a great school it's so sad to see it go to ruins read more

Yet another year at Benton with my kids and I still think it's an above average middle school. It seems only angry people visit yelp to trash people. It would be nice if people used yelp to say what they liked rather than rant about things they hate. read more

This school is bad I don't recommend it. Every month a huge fight breaks out that leads to a bunch more fights through out the week. One time there was a fight that had students injured and the fight had 5 students involved and among those students were ones that got kicked out of other schools and got sent here. And the students in the fight got as much as a suspension and afterwards many other fights happened and it felt like a gang war since those fights were between two social groups and eventually there were basically riots. The students from the other schools that got kicked out basically have a gang mentality that leads to kids outside the group to get jumped I definitely don't recommend this school. read more

This school allows anyone to sub for a teacher that is out, THEY HAVE ONE OF WORST SUB'S MRS. FISHELI who does nothing and knows nothing... She just sits there yelling! read more

this school is horrible, bad staff, too much drama, the teachers don't know how to teach at all, it's just overall a bad school. they come up with useless "resolutions" to their problems for example, not allowing students to use phones to "stop drama", it's going to continue no matter what. the students needs get ignored for the most part and it's just straight out a bad school to send your kids to, because of everything wrong with the school many kids have left to different schools. this school is bad. read more

benton middle school is not the greatest middle school as they claim that it is.there was 3 fights at benton in one week.the schoo is outrageous,dangerous,,teachers do not do there job they yell , do nothing , and then when they dont teach there job they expect us to do the work witout instructions.they try and keep the kids out of "fights" "drama" but not helping , they had so many fights in 18-19 school year, principal is unexceptionable he is rude , disrespectful, n follows kids around the school with there stuff , there wuz a fight and he grabbed a girl where he shouldnt have, he is a rude guy in general and we should have a different principal if that school wants to get anywhere with more kids,kids have came to the school and left for multiple reasons lik , to many fights,expelled,drama, but yet they still claim it as the worlds greatest middle school and try and stop the drama n fights but all they do is suspend n not have words with the kids , i have reviewed a lot just know it is not a good school not a safe environment and you should not send ur kids there because there most likely gonna get in a fight because some kids there just like to fight n cause problems for no reason , do.not.send.ur.kid.to.benton.middle.school. read more