Tumbleweed Elementary School

1100 East Avenue R-4

School District

Palmdale Elementary
Grade

K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:25
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on September 29, 2022

Teachers are rude. Wouldn’t recommend. My daughter was 5 minutes and literally gave me the key to the cafeteria, talk about safety concerns. The reason they gave me was because I was 5M late. We live in a time were safety for our kids is our #1 priority. This was alarming as a parent.
Submitted by parent on December 10, 2021

Amazing school we just moved here and the kids were quickly registered and integrated. I was apparently missing forms and I got a direct call back to help me. They really take the time here. In addition my child caught covid soon after (from a football game not from the school) and the teachers checked in daily. The homework is reasonable and the kids are learning so much more than at their old school before we moved. My two kids teachers are dedicated and it shows in their levels and academic growth.
Submitted by parent on July 31, 2019

Tumbleweed teachers and students have made so much growth since the turn around in 2010! They are a National Showcase School for Capturing Kids Hearts and the students scores continue to increase! Keep it up Tumbleweed!
Submitted by parent on April 17, 2014

My kids have been attending this school since they close down tamarisk. I've had little issues but nothing serious. This year was different though my 5th grade daughter has Mr.Hauptman. in my opinion he's a great teacher since the beginning of the year I knew he was great . Also little issues I had with meals Mr.Morales immediately took care of it. Over waa ll im pleased with tumbleweed.
Submitted by other on March 08, 2013

My now 7th grader attended Tumbleweed K-6th grade as well as is sibling who is still attending. I never had a problem with any teachers but always felt as if the principals were always at conflict with each other, which affected the whole school. The old principals were replaced 2 years ago, and the new principals have shown excellent leadership, cooperation with staff as well as being magnificent problem solvers. They truly care for the state of the school as well as the students. In response to the parent who has a problem with your nephews teacher.... my children have never been a problem in the classroom, yet other children are very distracting and inhibit the teachers ability to teach as well as the other students ability to learn. Instead of taking your nephews word at face value, investigate and have a conference. It has been my experience that many times when the same child continually has problems with all of their teachers, it isn't the teachers, it's the student.
Submitted by parent on February 22, 2013

my daughters both attended Tumbleweed from kinder to 6th grade. My nephew now attends this school for fifth grade and I am not happy with his teacher. Yes, my nephew can be a handful but i feel that she has labeled him a trouble maker and is constantly harassing him over minor things. If a note is passed to him in class he gets in trouble for accepting it. If he is trying to do his work and is being disturbed by other students and he tells them to leave him alone, he gets in trouble for disrespecting his classmates. Teachers are not what they used to be at this school.
Submitted by other on August 09, 2012

very rude office staff only caring of personal matters other then there job and mostly not on task
Submitted by teacher on January 21, 2012

Tumbleweed School has recently had a complete overhauling of staff, including an almost completely new set of teachers, so I feel a more recent and accurate review is due. Since September of 2010, Tumbleweed's teachers, administration and staff have been working overtime to turn around the negative culture of the school and unmotivated attitudes of the students. This change was hard for some people to understand and some parents even took their children out of the school because the expectations were "too high". However, the 92 point growth on the last CST put Tumbleweed on the map and now it seems that high expectations are just what this persistently low achieving school needed! A staff full of dedicated and hard working individuals who believe in their students has moved this school in a whole new direction. Congrats Tumbleweed, and keep up the hard work! Our kids need all of us!
Submitted by teacher on February 12, 2011

My daughter is in Kinder-garden at Tumbleweed and has a teacher she absolutely loves :Ms Ross. Which is the ONLY reason I even gave 2 stars. The office staff has 1 nice lady, and the yard workers are mostly nice, but the rest of the officials are beyond rude and could care less about what the students need to succeed, they are more concerned with putting the parents down in front of the child. (I have a disabled neice I care for & we Walk to the school nearly a mile & a half each way& sometimes are a little late & have been thoroughly chewed out for being an irrresponsible parent because they had to "babysit" for 5 minutes )