Hedenkamp Elementary School

This review serves as our experience so far at Hedenkamp. Although, after reading another review, I’m sorry to hear about the bullying. That sounds absolutely horrible and I hope your son is doing better.
We love Hedenkamp! At first I wanted my daughter to attend a different elementary closer to home. The way the school zones are defined has Hedenkamp as our home school even though we’re only a couple blocks away from a different school. You can be sure I tried transferring her at first. However, we wouldn’t transfer schools now if they offered it to us.
The layout of Hedenkamp is very open and the staff has always been wonderful to us. My daughter has her regular teacher who keeps me in the loop via email and is always great about getting back to me on a timely manner. Also, we’re always treated well by the front office and any other staff member we come across.
They do an awesome job keeping parents informed about what’s happening around campus. Not only do flyers go out to the students, but they’re placed throughout the school, uploaded onto PeachJar, and advertised on their blog. By the way, their blog is very well maintained and their Twitter account is constantly updated. Actually, I was browsing their blog the other week and viewed their presentation about the school’s performance in the CAASPP. Little did I know, but they ranked Fifth overall in language arts AND FIRST overall in math in the district. Very proud that my daughter can call herself a Husky!

This school has a serious problem with bullying. I had my child there last year and he constantly was being bullied. Had sit downs with vice principles and principal and nothing changed. Even after having meetings with school staff the teacher (Ms.Rubi. total B) left my son and his bully alone in class and the other boy started choking my son. My boy was on transfer and it wasn’t renewed. So instead of fixing the problem they just got rid of my son which was total BS. Now I find out that things haven’t changed. My wife knows of two other children being bullied. One by the same boy that bullied my son the other we just found out today. BS staff. We are currently working into getting the press involved because this crap can’t go on. I’ll keep you posted.

Had an unpleasant encounter with theiir receptionist named Kathy. She is not very accommodating and exhibited a very poor customer service attitude.