Leesburg Elementary School

2229 South Street

School District

Lake County Schools
Grade

PK, K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:13
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on August 20, 2023

I’m a parent having 2 kids in this institution. A first grader and a third grader. Their learning experiences has been wonderful. They tell me everyday how they had fun with their friends and teachers. Their reading skills, maths and science has improved. I normally do a follow up with them everyday. They must tell me everything they studied in school each day. That’s how I get to know it.I’m amazed seeing some negative ratings by other reviewers. Teaching a child begins from home. We parents are teachers too. Every child is unique and we all need to find out how to go about it.
Submitted by teacher on May 07, 2022

THE best shcool you atleast nee your birth certifacte thats all
Submitted by parent on March 13, 2017

The lack of adult supervision at this school is astounding. There have been several occasions where my second grader could have been kidnapped, because they pay no attention to the students. She has wandered off into fields with kids she doesn't know and been caught by other students. She has wandered off from the car riders pickup to go back to the portables to play with friends. She has been cornered by other students kissing her. She has physically and verbally been bullied. When she has spoken up about it, she gets called a tattle tale by the teachers. If she has to miss a day of schedule to illness or the never ending head lice she picks up at this school it takes 24 hours to get her makeup work. She has picked up a number of behavior issues from other kids. kids swear at the teachers and staff. The head lice are a constant battle as well. Every student doesn't get checked on the same day so they can all be treated at one time so they just get passed back around. When the nurse finds nits she plucks then off and tosses them on the floor. For a school that claims to focus on literacy my child is not challenged at all by the level she is assigned to read. She is still allowed to check out books from the library that are below her assigned level so there's no challenge. EDIT: Yes, the principal and other administrators were made aware of the issues when they happened but they continued to not fix the issues, and my child was reprimanded for her behavior. Next kidnapping is not extreme. There are times the gates are open and one could easily sneak in. As for the lice, it's like any parasite, if you don't treat all the infected people and areas at once they will continue to spread. I can kill them at home weekly but it won't stop her from getting more when she went back.A love of reading is important, but you also need to be challenged if you are going to get any better. I'm sorry that you are butthurt that someone feels differently than you do, but since my husband and I pulled her out to homeschool her, she's behaving 10's better, she isn't getting lice, she doesn't get bullied, and she's learning and advancing. She's excelling past her 2nd grade level work and doing 3rd-5th grade level work and understanding it. She's having more fun, having more hands on experience and absorbing more, not just memorizing things. Anyone who truly cares about the future of thier child would do the same and remove thier children from this school
Submitted by parent on April 04, 2016

The staff starting with the principal down just sucks I had the principal threaten to call the police on me if I didn't pick my kids up by 3:45 an his excuse was because he has to pay his staff overtime I work in Fruitland Park so sometimes trying to get through traffic can be a hassle
Submitted by parent on August 02, 2015

Love the new principal and uniform policy keep up the great work and let's help this school rate 5 in lake county. Parents plz rate school. Best of luck this 2015-16 school year
Submitted by parent on April 21, 2013

My son attends 4th grade at this school. He was having difficulties in the prior three schools he was in. We moved to this town for my job and were hesitant when we read these reviews but had not other options as the town provides little to choose from, its kind of inner city, but my son was placed in Ms. Phillips class and excells, she provides energy and patience with the children and seems to have a passion for teaching. I would recommend her, she has turned our son around!!!! Thank you ms. Phllips
Submitted by parent on February 12, 2013

My daughter started kindergarten in 2012 and it took about a week and my husband and I started to notice problems with her behavior that we never had before. She started throwing things,trying to tell us what to do, and just bad behavior in general. Then some of the students started picking on my child. It got to the point to where my child came home with a welt on her back from another student punching her in the lower part on her back on her spine. She told the teacher and the teacher told her just to stay away from them. How was she suppose to stay away from them these children were in her class. Then one of these students a boy went a punched my daughter in the face for telling on him. Their solution was to just put her in a different class yet she would still see these children at lunch and they continued hurting at lunch. They just wanted to sweep everything under the rug. I have spoken to other parents and I am not the only one that has the same problem with their childs behavior at home since they started kindergarten and they are all in different kindergarten classes so you tell me is it our children or the schools lack of attention?