Coventry Grammar School

3453 Main Street

Coventry, CT 06238

4 Reviews

School District

Coventry
Grade

K-2
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:11
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on June 21, 2023

Overall, CGS is a mixed bag. There are a handful of truly great teachers and staff that really want to make the school work for everyone, and then there are the rest. Teachers typically lack enough support to make their classrooms work well - both from a funding and staffing perspective.The school has little resources to truly work with children with special education needs. They may try to put together an IEP, but if you hope to get one you'll need to fight for it and even then it seems like some of the steps are skipped. Classrooms are understaffed to deal with special education - as observed in a classroom with no less than three children with IEPs and zero paraprofessional support. This means that all children suffer as a result.The prior principal of the school exhibited challenging authoritarian leadership strategies, particularly with young students - including suspension of kindergartners, first, and second graders, seclusion, and forcible restraint. While these techniques are legal and appropriate in some situations, their frequent application without taking time to understand what was going on with the children (usually because they didn't have the staff to do it), results in a nightmarish feedback loop for the youngest children that leaves them afraid of going to school and can quickly squash their desire to learn. In the end, this tendency combined with the low funding of Coventry Public Schools, seems to result in poor educational outcomes for all but the most average of students unless individual staff were able to intervene outside of their assigned roles.Despite this, there are some great people working at the school. Truly phenomenal teachers who try their best despite the odds. If your child is developing according to their age, then they can have a great time at the school. Parent involvement is great with a number of events each year and the student led conferences are a great technique. However, if your child is at all exceptional - whether it be gifted, developmentally delayed, physically disabled, or other exceptionality - then the lack of resources at Coventry Grammar School will make a great education even more of an uphill battle.
Submitted by parent on December 11, 2019

The only good thing about this school is that it only lasts 3 grades and no one has to suffer too long.
Submitted by parent on June 14, 2013

My daughter had a great year in kindergarten. She loved going to school and learned so much. She went from shy to confident over the course of the year thanks to her great teacher!! Thank You Mrs Watson.
Submitted by parent on September 26, 2012

Our son loves going to school and he is doing wonderfully at CGS. He is ahead of the grade level on reading and the teachers recognize that - they have given him extra work that he can do to challenge himself. All the teachers seem to make learning so much fun, which we appreciate. They let the children be children while teaching important skills. The teachers our son had were all very patient and encouraging.