Compton Elementary School

3450 New Macland Road

School District

Cobb County
Grade

PK, K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:11
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on June 16, 2020

Compton is one of the best schools in Cobb county
Submitted by parent on September 14, 2017

Unfortunately, this school does not appear to be overly concerned with the success of their students. Due to poor parent involvement and the racial makeup of the school, some teachers do not attempt to involve parents in the students education because they assume, either because of their race or language barriers, the parents will not be involved in the students education anyway, so why put forth the effort. Hopefully, the new principal will make a difference, but the low and poor scores and lack of student progress is enough to shun me away from this school forever. Poor children are missing out on so much priceless education because of unconcerned or poor teachers.
Submitted by parent on May 19, 2016

I wish there were a way to give this school less starts as in negative stars. I hate this school. They are so unkind to parents or any kind of involvement from parents. The only saving grace for my child this year was the teacher. She was sweet and the only reason this school year was some what bearable. The staff makes it difficult to have any kind of parent involvement. The scores are awful, I feel like there is no concern for actual education for the children unless your child is lucky enough to get a good teacher(which are few and far between at this school). If you care about your child and their education please redistrict them. Check the ranking it is awful. This school needs to be overhauled, gutted and restaffed.
Submitted by parent on February 25, 2016

Wow. I don't know where to start. The principal is clueless but will defend the horrible staff even when they are flat out WRONG! The only reason I gave 2 stars instead of 1 because there are very few good teachers that genuinely care, its unfortunate that they have to work at that school. The principal and school portrayed themselves as welcoming but the minute you try to get involved, a wall goes up and parents are shut out. The school's idea of parent involvement is volunteering to copy paper and reshelf books in the media center. Compton ES does NOT care about their students (b/c as I was told by the staff, "the school has too many kids to handle") or families. They have NO hint of what it means to be an educator or a community. Send your child(ren) somewhere else.
Submitted by parent on March 16, 2015

More parents need to get involved, otherwise its a great school and I love that my daughters attend.
Submitted by parent on February 12, 2015

I have nothing bad to say about this school! Because since 2013 til now all i can say are good things about it! This school has always made me feel welcome compare to other schools we have been too. So far all the teachers my daughters have had have really taught them alot and we also have to keep in mind that parental involvement is also the key to continue guiding your child to be successful in life we can't blame the teachers and staff, when we all have to work as a team to get our child where we want them to be! And til this date my daughters teachers have also given me all that support to also guide me on how to also help my daughters at home in areas they are having trouble with. My kids couldnt be in a better place than in Compton Elementary! A big shout out to all teachers n staff for all they do for our kids!
Submitted by parent on August 25, 2014

My children have been going to Compton for the last 12 years and during this time I have had great experiences. Liz Murphy does a great job with the parents and the teachers my children have had have been great. Haskins, Ballenger, Luttrell, Hamilton, Carey, Brown...great teachers. The only reason for not giving a 5 star rating is that some of these great teachers are no longer there. The have a great drama team that heads of great performances with the students. How the rating is that low is beyond me.
Submitted by parent on July 30, 2014

I was weary about sending my kids here. With such bad reviews. At the end of the day any school is as good as your parental involvement. If parents are not involved in your kids schools then the rating is always going to be low. This school tries very hard to go above and beyond. From Movie nights, school dances, end of year field trips, Target (the gifted program for Cobb county) the school rocks. Sure there are things they could improve upon like that rude lady at the front desk, but the school as a whole is great. I've had three kids attend this school. One of them went years ago when it had a much higher rating but the experience has been the same. Will still had a kid there this school year 2014-2015.
Submitted by parent on June 23, 2014

most of my time here has been great. My son plays baseball at the local park. He has a few of his teachers go out of there way to come watch him play on there own time. Even the Assistant Principal came to watch him.
Submitted by parent on March 27, 2014

Do your kid a favor and send them somewhere else! There are only a few good teachers here. About 1 per grade level. Pretty unfortunate odds that your child will get one that doesn't care much about your family. There's an extreme lack of parental involvement at this school, but you can't blame the parents too much..the principle and secretary go to great lengths to discourage any kind of parental involvement. The PTA is run solely by staff, which is not how it should be! It should be 50/50 staff and parents. For the sake of this school, I certainly hope they get a new principle soon. The current one has no idea what she's doing and needs to step away from her post.