Ruth O. Harris Middle School

11150 Alder Avenue

School District

Colton Joint Unified
Grade

7-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:20
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by teacher on January 20, 2024

I was an eighth grade English teacher at Harris Middle School a few years ago. I immediately found out that the students were working at the fifth/sixth grade level and did the best I could to help close that huge achievement gap. Students at the school are not used to a quality instruction with high expectations. I found the other teachers thinking that low achievement was normal and did not use differentiation that much to push students to achieve at grade level. One long time teacher at the school blamed the students for not doing well instead of himself and other teachers. That is not how it works; it is the teacher that makes students achieve. The administration was accepting of low achievement and that all was fine with them and the counselors were ineffective to say the least. I see since I had left that it has even went down in achievement. A total change needs to occur and get some administrators and teachers with high quality training and high expectations to change this school. I suspected the low expectations start at the district office with low quality administrators there and them hiring low quality friends to fill administrative positions. I could not wait for the school year to end and leave the Colton district and to move on to a high quality district where high achievement and student support is the highest priority.
Submitted by student on August 06, 2022

I'm a current student here as a 7th grader and school just started and so far, it's going pretty well. On the first day of school if you didn't know what class to go to, there would be some teachers outside one of the buildings helping you figure it out. The staff are all very nice and helpful. When you first start school, the teachers start out slow with things like all about me slides and things like that. Any homework you get isn't homework at all its just classwork that just wasn't completed in class. I wouldn't really say it's the best school, but I would definitely recommend it for anyone that just likes to have chill days almost every day and be able to hang out with friends. I will keep updating.
Submitted by parent on June 02, 2020

Not great. I know it depends on the student as well but the lack of leadership and consequences for misbehaving students really make this school horrible. Especially if you have a kid who can go either way... good or bad.
Submitted by student on April 28, 2019

Terrible just the memories here are terrible for everyone