Sossaman Middle School

18655 E JACARANDA BLVD

School District

Higley Unified
Grade

7-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:20
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on January 26, 2025

The admin team is very responsive and visits classrooms daily to check in on staff and students. The office staff is friendly and helpful. Most teachers really seem to care about the kids and enjoy their jobs. The facility is very clean and well kept. Unfortunately, overall safety is a problem. Kids are caught daily vaping in the bathrooms and worse. Fights are recorded and shared rather than stopped. The SPED team needs to be overhauled. Some of the SPED teachers are downright rude and exclusive. There definitely needs to be more counselors per students on hand to properly deal with all of the daily drama.
Submitted by parent on September 13, 2024

I can’t say enough bad things about this school. Absolutely horrible experience. Teachers don’t care. My son had money stolen from him and the teacher told him, “I guess you learned a life lesson, now go have a seat”. Assistant principal does nothing. This school blames the kids while the staff provides no supervision or effort to even return emails. My son was struggling and wanted help. Couldn’t get anybody to help him. The epitome of what a disfunctional school looks like. Fights break out without anybody around to stop them. Completely out of control!
Submitted by parent on April 18, 2024

The IEP program here is a joke The schools teachers have no idea on how to handle kids with ADHD, autism etc They are very incompetent at meetings and im the classroom when situations arise and do not communicate with the students parents They will say your kids is doing something defiant but fail to acknowledge the IEP in place. They need more training as does the entire staff to restructure their system... They have had many complaints from parents from outside academies about IEP's special education etc All I can say is be weary
Submitted by parent on December 10, 2019

DISCRIMINATION Students with cell phones have privileges to those without. When needing to send a message about a transportation emergency to my student during school I was told by front office to “text student”. When informing them she didn’t have a cell phone they continued that they could not interrupt class or pass a note on. Cooperation came after sending Mr. Dolan an email. Fast forward to now... I noticed my student left an assignment on the counter. Brought the assignment to school and ask that she pleased be called to get it. “Text student”they said. ”Student doesn’t have a phone” I reminded them. They continued that they couldn’t interrupt class for an assignment and that it’s a learning opportunity for student not to forget work. I said that it’s really unfair that a student with a cell phone can be interrupted in class, by their parents, to come get a forgotten assignment. While it’s a learning opportunity and no interruptions for the student without a cell phone. Basically the front desk encourages the parent to text a child and interrupt class while I’m just out of luck. I thought kids shouldn’t be texting in class as well. Either tell ALL parents they are out of luck, or interrupt the class for ALL parents via text from parent or call from front office.
Submitted by parent on May 25, 2019

Overall good; love that the school is tucked away from a main road and within a safe community; seems to offer a lot of opportunities for kids