Early County High School

12020 Columbia Street

School District

Early County
Grade

9-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:12
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by student on November 15, 2024

To put it simply, this school has been falling apart, and had changed leadership many, many times. It doesn't trust any of the students to their own privacy, and has been very inconsiderate of the students' feelings and personal well-being. While the education itself is well maintained, and I believe I've personally learned a lot from this school, it's not been a great experience, and I personally do not recommend it as a result.
Submitted by student on November 15, 2024

To make it easiest to understand my frustrations of with being a student here at this school, you need to understand the condition this building, and it's environment, have been in for the past few years. This school is being completely abandoned, and as a result, has shifted through three different principals in the three years I have been here. This in of itself is not an issue, but when one approach is vastly different from the precious, and those changes are not communicated, it creates a distance in understanding and cooperation between the students and the staff. In addition to that, the CTAE hall, intended to house all classes related to construction, or technical careers, smells of sewage nearly every week, the school lunches are (consistently to a worrying degree. It doesn't happen too much, but it happens every other week) either expired or moldy, and the milk in specific is usually spoiled, and most importantly, there is no trust between the students and this school. However, the biggest issues have been the failure, and continuously ignored pushback and unrest that new policies (which I'll get to next) have created.Recently, the school, as well as the board members, have decided it'd be best to implement this policy, and mandate it starting February. Purses of a certain size, backpacks, and any other bags are now, yet again, having to be purchased simply for the school's maintenance of a false sense of security, in a time when many of these students can't afford it. Previously, they had teachers thoroughly search through our bags in order to ensure our safety, but due to this policy, they will significantly cut down on the number of staff checking bags, down to only a handful, and will not be checking nearly as thoroughly due to transparency. I could write more on this policy, and it's inadequacies, but my main focus should be on the fact that this was neither communicated to the students before the policy was announced to have been set forward. They did not ask us what we thought, nor how we might feel about the potential of the policy. Even some of the teachers were upset by the suddenness and lack of communication throughout the day. I may seem like a still disgruntled student who's still complaining of a fresh wound, but ECHS has never had security measures that were good. We already had a bag search, metal detectors, vape detectors, and all these measures to prevent poor behavior, but I still students vape in the halls. It's been futile.
Submitted by other on June 09, 2018

So glad I went to this school
Submitted by student on April 09, 2008

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