Cook Elementary School

1511 Cripple Creek Drive

School District

Austin Independent
Grade

PK, K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:14
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on January 25, 2016

Cook has transitioned into some new staff over the past few years! This has been a great transition! Not to mention the downsize in students. Overall these changes has been great for the students. I hope the experience is the same for the faculty. As a very hands on parent, I no longer worry as I did when my sons first attended Cook. My children no longer dread getting up going to school. In a recent conversation with one of my sons we discussed an issue with another student. I asked him if he felt like the teacher, principal, or any of the other staff listened to him and fixed the issue. He responded as the little man he is, "Mom, they all were awesome. The principal came by and checked in on us in class." This made me as a parent feel grateful to have adults in my children lives that are listening to them.
Submitted by teacher on August 31, 2014

The staff at Cook are rising to the challenge of rebuilding a school after new administration, poor test scores, high staff turnover, and high-need students. Test scores have improved dramatically over the past two years and we even surpass other schools in the area with similar student populations. Our students are largely Hispanic, and in bilingual, dual-language classrooms. Our students in the ESL, or English only, classes come to us with social and academic needs that we have worked especially hard to provide interventions for. Schools in this area serve many single-income families that struggle to make ends meet, much less support their child in school. Cook is becoming a safe, nurturing place for our students to not only learn in but to simply be children in. We have a long way to go with enrichment programs, parent and community involvement, and staff retention, but I believe in my administration and teachers. We have recently been relieved by a neighboring school and are down to under 600 students. This will help our ability to meet our community's needs and keep quality teachers tremendously. I am proud to be a Cook teacher and can't wait to see how we grow!
Submitted by parent on July 01, 2013

This is my sons first year in school and his teacher was awesome! Anytime I needed something everyone was always helpful! Except the cashier in the lunch line! She needs to be replaced! She was very rude with kids!
Submitted by parent on March 04, 2011

Cook Elementary did not provide a very good education for my daughter. She spent most of the time dealing with bullies. The administration could not do anything because of the fact that most of this activity went on behind the backs of administration. The classrooms are too large to give individual attention to students who need more help in a subject. The teachers my daughter had were wonderful, but it seemed as though the size of the classroom made it difficult for them to teach because of troubled students.