Poughkeepsie Middle School

55 COLLEGE AVE

School District

Poughkeepsie City
Grade

6-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:11
Type

public

School Map for Poughkeepsie City School District

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Reviews

Submitted by student on January 28, 2025

This school is HORRIBLE they are more worried about phones than actually teaching us and they reward bad and rude kids with more opportunities than the kids who are ACTUALLY doing the right thing everyone at this school is TRAUMATIZED they just don't wanna come out there face and say that they staff who is in charge acts like kids themselves and they wanna argue with the kids for fun and there all in there 20s to early 30s running the school
Submitted by student on June 04, 2024

they don't care if you're being sexually harrased, assaulted, bullied. they just want their money
Submitted by other on August 29, 2023

0/5 wouldn’t recommend. Never put your child in this district.
Submitted by student on October 12, 2022

This school is garbage, a kid went to the hospital because she had an concussion getting jumped by both female/males. This school food service is bad they give you uncooked food. They run everytime. I have over 90's in my classes but i never was able to go on school trip, other people invited and there was 2 school trips.
Submitted by parent on June 06, 2022

great school! its very nice. the staff are very nice now.
Submitted by parent on October 18, 2021

Terrible school here the staff don’t care about anything besides there paycheck there’s legit like 3 fights every lunch period and you guys do nothing about it don’t send your kids to this hellhole
Submitted by student on December 09, 2019

i would give this school a five
Submitted by student on January 18, 2019

Bad, really bad there is not any good things
Submitted by parent on September 22, 2016

Absolutely terrible school! Staff encourages students to lie. All these administrators you think one could give an honest answer instead of behaving like politicians.
Submitted by other on May 29, 2015

By far the worst school I have ever been to. I was there for 6th grade and the first two months of 7th grade. This school has nothing but drama.
Submitted by parent on May 28, 2013

When my daughter attended PMS several years back, the Teachers and school personnel were very much involved and active with the students. My son is now a 7th grader there and the quality, dedication, efforts and support of the teachers and Administration is lacking tremendously. It seems that with the exception of literally a handful of Teachers, they fail to exude the following: Professionalism, patience, positive encouragers, guidance, support, enthusiasm and ability to connect with students in a friendly but firm demeanor. Students are not given additional help. They are quick to suspend and find some sort of negative consequence for students actions. Moreover, there are no afterschool assistance, homework help, afterschool programs and educational enrichment for students. The whole district, in my professional and personal opinion needs an overhaul. The state should really come in and close this school district down. It's so bad, that I've been actively trying to relocate in order to get my son out of this school. The Principal is ghetto and the Asst. Principal align with the Teachers, who are at times are lackluster.