Pershing Elementary Humanities Magnet

3200 South Calumet Avenue

School District

Chicago Public Schools
Grade

PK, K-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:14
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on November 23, 2024

As a parent of two children who both attended John Pershing STEAM Elementary School in Chicago, I can arrest that this school is truly AMAZING!My husband and I traveled from our Morgan Park neighborhood for this school. We love this school because it provided our kids with an excellent educational experience within a supportive school environment. The school is safe, small, great teachers, bully free, clean building and located in a beautiful part of Bronzeville neighborhood .The curriculum is well rounded and include; art, library, P.E., music, recess, computer time, library, and Spanish as part of the regular curriculum for all grade levels. The school offer students an engaging STEAM curriculum which have helped their graduates gain admission to a wide range of selective (test based), magnet, noble network and private high schools.As of today, my daughter (10th grade) is attending Noble-UIC College Preparatory High School and is a honor roll student since her freshman years! Our son (6th grade) is currently still at Pershing and was in their gifted program program which offers select students and accelerated learning curriculum.Thank you Pershing staff and principal for preparing our kids well for high school excellence! We greatly appreciate your hard work, dedication and love you give to students everyday.
Submitted by parent on December 12, 2022

love it good school good teaching good safety
Submitted by parent on July 20, 2018

5 on scale of 10. I think the school has potential. The humanities curriculum is weak. The school needs to be revamped and restructured for the students it serves.
Submitted by parent on April 29, 2017

My little sister was new to the school since February 2017, she is very popular but was being bullied by 2 girls for 3 months! Keep in mind my sister is disabled, deaf in one ear AND wears a hearing aid! I told the principal & talked to teachers. After they so called talked to the girls my sister reported the bullying was still going on. One counselor told me that this was not bullying. I was bullied from kindergarteners garten up until highschool, & have anxiety & depression. how can anyone tell me what bullying is? I know people personally who have committed suicide. These things are SO serious! I commented on that & the assistant principal said "& that's everywhere" ok then why would your school not handle the problem? I'm not discussing everywhere, I'm discussing THIS situation. My sister wore makeup to school one day out of 3 months and they told me that she must have low self esteem & asked me to put her in a girls mentoring program at the school. BIG LOL! What a insult! In my beliefs makeup is apart of expressing your feminine nature & has NOTHING to do with age. From my experiences you can walk in a store & buy makeup at any age! The makeup industry is bigger than its ever been right now, sorry if you all are living under a rock & are not very open minded or understanding to the children of this generation. So would u all have an issue if a little boy walked into school with makeup on???? You all running the school would FREAK out to something that is now more accepted in our society. Law suit waiting to happen. They made my little sister wipe her glitter eye shadow off & eyeliner saying it's "too much" HA! when that is NO WHERE in the rule books. Sounds discriminatory & personal to me. Also my sister said that one day again a lady invited her to the mentor program and as my little sister left the room the lady made the remark "& don't forget ur makeup!" WOW! it sounds like these older women as this Pershing magnum school have a HUGE personal problem with my 6th grade, 12 year old disabled sister. Also I worry about her education. They don't give test, barely have homework. She has As. bs & one C. A teacher told me at parent teacher conference this month of April "I gave her a better grade of a C because we fail no one at this school" LMAOO! If I ever tried to get her into a top highschool of Chicago, and she had to take a test. She'd FAIL!