F A Desmares Elementary School

16 Old Clinton Road

School District

Flemington-Raritan Regional
Grade

K-4
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:9
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on October 18, 2023

Wonderful school. Excellent special education and speech teachers. They have a class III officer assigned to the school, which is so important for safety and for students relationship with law enforcement.
Submitted by parent on February 04, 2022

The instructors and the administration are defensive and opaque when it comes to discussing performance. There is little attention paid to discipline as an element of early academic training. Instead, misbehavior results in the foregone conclusion that there is a "learning disability" that requires formal diagnosis and accommodation. This is part of the vaunted "victim culture" that has overtaken our public institutions and the wider culture at large, to be sure, but it is well pronounced in this district and at this school. So, if your kid fidgets (in his obligatory COVID mask) and doesn't pick up the lesson, then it must be ADHD or some other learning disability. It can't be that they are a 10 year old kid who doesn't want to sit and learn math and would rather do anything else.When you step in and notice that your kid is failing at math and you further notice that they haven't the faintest notion of how to solve the latest complex word problem, they get defensive and assign the problem to the supposed learning disorder. Then when you personally remediate your kid's math skills and they do better on tests, they suddenly get defensive and proprietary... about YOUR kid.Well, welcome to Democrat-run New Jersey, where the "professionals" all know more than you do, and you had better not put any disciplinary pressure on your kids to perform, lest they actually learn something... If you're thinking of moving here, forget about it. The kids are all masked up and there is no expectation that they will learn to behave and learn. Instead, the onus is placed on you to push them into permanent victimhood with an IEP, even if the partents subsequently demonstrate that a bit of pressure from home together as well as thorough remediation of whatever the heck it is they are actually doing at school produces nearly instant performance improvement.In short, don't rely on these people to actually EDUCATE your kids. They will, however, INSTITUTIONALIZE them all day long.
Submitted by parent on September 15, 2018

Great school with dedicated teachers. Some work needs to be done to address inequality.
Submitted by parent on March 25, 2018

The school needs to be more creative and adopt some progressive techniques that focus on individual learning.