Montclair Elementary School

This school is full of passionate involved parents and passionate well-​trained teachers. Families choice into Montclair from far away from their homes because of the welcoming environment and the caring compassionate community.
Academics are top priority for this school. Teachers are continually available to talk and discuss issues regarding details on how to improve students performance or any other issue. Students that are lagging behind are offered extra time and differentiated classroom experiences to catch them up. Students that are on grade level or ahead are continually pushed and offered more material to stoke their academic fires.
Montclair is extremely diverse in its population. The staff honors and supports the wide variety of cultures that walk through the door. Multicultural night is held in the Spring and there are a variety of performances and food offered from all over the globe.
Montclair staff is well trained and continues to push themselves by taking Professional Development classes and have in-​service training. A focus on data collection and bodies of evidence for developing appropriate curriculum help keep teachers and students on track. A majority of Montclair staff have a Masters degree in teaching and many years of teaching under their belts.
I highly recommend Montclair school. Their warm, inviting environment is one that is worth checking out. DPS can be proud of this school and its teachers.

This elementary school gets 1 star because it is rich in cultural diversity and the lunch lady is the sweetest woman I think I may have ever met.
That’s where the stars stop.
I usually try to be as objective as possible when offering my opinion or experiences of anything because I do realize it is merely my opinion. So, I came up with a list of «thank you’s» I’d personally like to offer Montclair and the DPS system.
(I have edited this list of thank you’s to the few I think are relative to this review and the rest I am saving for my formal letter to the school board.)
Thank you for allowing my child to be harassed on the playground and allowing him the opportunity to learn new words even I don’t know the meaning of.
Thank you for changing my child’s love of learning to a detestation of school.
A personal thank you to the principal for engaging in a personal, emotional, unprofessional argument with my ex-​husband on the topic of unsubstantiated «reasons your child was pulled from the accelerated class and placed in a marginal learning/​50% esl class» — this was comical at best.
Thank you DPS for keeping it real — Real Mediocre.