Brighton Elementary School

825 Railroad Street

School District

Brighton
Grade

PK, K-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:6
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by student on December 22, 2022

As a student of this school, i can say that the whole school is a jumbled up mess of a bunch of stuff. The education in the school is utterly awful, half having to do with teacher shortages, and another half being the lack of room to have other classes such as social studies, and science. I have found with experience that the middle school teachers provide good care to students and the teaching is okay overall. The lower grades do NOT provide sufficient education by any means, in my opinion. When I saw the 6th grade come into the middle school this year, everybody found that they were far behind in what they should know by their age. The bullying and guidiance counseling at this school is another mess of basically awfulness. They don't have an actual guidance counselor so they had to hire the bus driver, you heard me right, BUS driver to do it. There is NOTHING wrong with bus drivers, and I don't think of them any less of the teachers and students, but they got a cdl to drive, not to cater to a bunch of kids that are in a heated argument. And the way they handle bullying is also very bad. They do the classic: give out the paper to fill out and write why you shouldn't have done what you did. People don't realize that that whole style of solving a students behavior is longly outdated and their is much better ways to handle that. The school condition is awful, just awful. Every room with broken tiles, scratched floors, emergency doors that literally dont open (I'm not joking), etc. I will say the best part of the school which is the only reason it is a two star review is the fact that their is free lunch! And another factor is that it tastes genuinely okay for school food.
Submitted by parent on September 03, 2022

The low enrollment has some benefits as the students get more individualized attention and direction.
Submitted by parent on June 02, 2022

There seems to be a lot of bullying and zero accountability. Staff members like to push situations under the rug and only care about budgets.
Submitted by parent on November 09, 2021

overall it is an ok school I would recommend this school
Submitted by parent on August 21, 2017

Not bright and/or inviting. The educational experience could be improved immensely by following most recent evidence-based guidelines, and more holistically approaching the care of students. A reevaluation of the IOM recommendations on healthy food and the AAP's recommendation on outdoor time for children would be meaningful.
Submitted by parent on April 08, 2017

Oppressive environment for many children. Some get the attention they need, but at the expense of the kids who have no trouble following the rules.
Submitted by parent on March 13, 2017

The school creates a great community for kids with lots of activities and caring teachers and staff. Low teacher–student ratio means lots of support for learning.