Ottawa Sr High School

1120 South Ash Street

School District

Ottawa
Grade

6-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:12
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by student on January 21, 2021

Went online for a semester of my last year and the performance has been sub par. For starters, the school didn't let students change their classes on their (the ones they chose in April of the previous year) schedules at the beginning of the year. So students got stuck with classes they didn't need or want for a semester. Another consistent issue is at least once a day a class won't start the meetings (where online students go to start class.) The school uses a site called Big Blue Button which causes them frequent problems. The teachers don't really know how to teach online with all due respect. Not their fault but if you're going to have online students make sure your teachers know how to teach online classes. Communication is something they need to work on. Barely any interaction with online students and as a student who is trying to learn the subject, it makes it very difficult. It puts a lot of stress on kids my age and younger. I've had to try and teach myself on many of these subjects and it just doesn't work. It's not as though that they aren't aware about the struggles kids are having as they occasionally send out emails telling us that "we're stronger for the experience" (in regards to online learning). As a student, it's demoralizing to have your efforts be for nothing and for the school to know why. So, to summarize, don't send your children online at any point to this school. They will not receive anything from it except undue stress. Online schooling here does not put students in a good position to learn. 2/10 would not do again.
Submitted by student on December 07, 2017

i am a 9th grader who goes to this school and it is one of best school's in kansas it does help with bullying a couple of my closest friends get bully and it does help the students here are some what nice and the teachers are the nicest teachers you will meet so far i love it and i grew up in ottawa so to me it is like home well ottawa is not the school but the teachers are like the parents and are trying to teach the students there so valuble work for when they grow up i already learned a lot from this school and it has helped me with my grades and friendship aswell . so i love it at Ottawa High School Very Much
Submitted by student on May 04, 2017

Ottawa high school is almost the WORST school you could ever send your child to. They do not resolve issues at all. When a child is getting bullied they don't do anything at all about it. They don't teach right either. As a student here I hate how they don't address issues properly. If I were you, you should not bring your kid here. #OttawaSucks