John Snively Elementary School

848 SNIVELY AVE

School District

Polk
Grade

PK, K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:14
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by teacher on September 20, 2024

This school has a family feel to them. All of the teachers care about care about the students and keep track of them as they go to older grades.
Submitted by parent on April 02, 2024

This school is amazing , my son has learn so much and the teachers are amazing ! The staff is always helpful and solving any issue in hand !
Submitted by parent on February 09, 2022

Horrible school no standard for how the kids are treated
Submitted by other on January 14, 2020

I would reccomend Snively Elementary without a doubt. The atmosphere is nurturing and since it is a smaller school - it feels like family. The teachers continue to care about and check on their students even when they have gone on to upper grades. The school is older - but thanks to the butterfly garden and the murals - it is a very pretty and pleasant place to learn.
Submitted by parent on April 20, 2017

This school has always been a great school. The teacher and staff work at this school because they live what they do. I went to school here in the 90s I can say I learned alot of values that I have carried through out my life. My children go here and I wouldn't have it any way. My children get to see what the real world people look like and im glad that being a small school it's more like a family.
Submitted by other on January 17, 2016

This school has a warm and caring "family" atmosphere that truly loves its students. Great teachers and administrators!
Submitted by parent on October 21, 2014

all my kids go to this school and i think it is great and has been since 2000 till present never heard the things people are saying or seen anything like they have said happen so as a parent i love the school and teachers
Submitted by other on August 20, 2014

This school is horrible! I went there when I was a kid (2000-2004) and it was bad, but my nephews go there now and every day they come home sad or covered in bruises. A teacher shook one of my nephews and said "you better f***ing anwser me!" And the school did nothing! I could keep going but I can only type so much here, needless to say I would NEVER recommend this school to any parent..... unless you want Your child verbally and physically abused.
Submitted by parent on October 03, 2012

My kid attends kdg here and it's very disorganized, teacher expects parents to go online to give child schoolwork, kids are put in lunchroom and expected to know where to go at classtime, again kdgs who are mixed in with much older/larger kids during mealtimes. Open house was a disaster, no relevent info given on your kid's progress, just watching a 15 short movie on reading a report card, very poor school, some teachers are kind, most are just plugging along wating until they can retire...
Submitted by parent on May 24, 2011

terrible...from the very first day my child attended it has been miserable, one problem after another...no help from anyone...no one seems to know what another is doing...the teacher yells at the students, there is no "play time" (this is kindergarten mind you), and the teacher called my child ugly in front of all the other students after making a point to call others handsome and beautiful! Needless to say, my child will not be returning to this school!
Submitted by parent on August 26, 2010

Unfortunately I cant say I rate the school 5 stars... this is my daughters first yr there, shes a first grader. The second day of school my daughter was misplaced or not found as they call it.. the security of the school is ridiculously poor, to bad there is no way I could transfer her to another school due to the zone requirement. this makes my days shakey. I would not recommend this school to anyone at all.
Submitted by other on June 05, 2010

I went to Snively when I was in Elementary School (1991-1998) (Pre-K to 6th grade). It was the best years of my life. The teachers and administrators were amazing.