The Ask Academy

4550 Sundt Road Northeast

School District

The Ask Academy
Grade

6-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:15
Type

charter

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Reviews

Submitted by other on September 30, 2024

The Ask Academy - 3 StarsThe school is very, very well at educating scholars. The teachers are great and us having Friday's off makes it incredibly easy to reach out for support. However, it's hard for the school to feel diverse with everyone wearing the same outfit. It prepares students incredibly well for collage, but this is where the problems arise. Nothing is wrong with the way they teach us, it is a challenging school; the thing I have a problem with is the assignments and how they pile them up on us way too much. It's not unusual for you to have HOURS of homework each and every night, and although you could reach out to teachers, at the end of the day it's up to you to reach that deadline. You can imagine how students after years of project stress will begin to develop negative mental problems, especially demotivation. I've never been to another school, but I do know that ASK is far beyond what scholars should have to put up with, the amount of homework is almost unbareable. Just about everyone I have ever asked is dealing with some sort of emotional dismay because of how much stress and anxiety of projects has built up time and time again. Overall, ASK is great at doing it's purpose to be a STEM school, but it comes with the sharp price of mental instability.
Submitted by other on April 09, 2024

So today I went in to the school to drop off an order to my aunt that works there. The old lady that works up front. I did not get her name she is very rude and not professional at all I don't know how they could have someone working there like that. She was trying to find a way to start an argument with me and being very rude. She needs to learn how to be professional if she's going to be working at the school.
Submitted by parent on April 03, 2024

Do not send your child to this school the bullying is horrible and the administration does not care about the children that are bullied and continue to let it happen without any punishment to the bullies. They also don't monitor the kids at lunch which leads to children being beat up and them trying to cover it up and saying not to involve police. Also students putting the fights all over social media of kids getting beat up. There's lots of racism going on students calling other students derogatory names with no punishment. We thought this was going to be a wonderful school to send our children too it ended up being a nightmare. STAY AWAY!!!!!!
Submitted by student on December 11, 2023

The teachers are nice but everything else sucks the school actively encourages kids to keep parents out of their school life and work also all the kids on the campus are just jerks the work is fine but never really well explained and it just sucks in general it is shocking how it is still in business because it is so awful.
Submitted by student on November 08, 2023

In my opinion this is a very good school for someone that wanna be a doctor, nurse or something li that I recommend this school
Submitted by other on March 29, 2023

Just a horrible school with horrible adults, I don’t know how they’re still operating.
Submitted by student on February 21, 2023

It is a good school and is small so your kids won't feel overwhelmed like at Rio Rancho and Lincoln.
Submitted by student on February 14, 2023

The Ask academy is a quite disruptive learning environment. It has been ineffective, and harmful to my mental health and emotional state. I cry myself to sleep every night because of the things I struggle to face on campus. The schools thought of safety is absolutely and utterly skewed. This is because they do not believe that yeezy foam runners are safe for school. I have been targeted and yelled at AND cursed by project managers. This experience has caused trauma and a ripple affect throughout my teen life childhood. I would not recommend this school to those who are sensitive or easy influenced.Thank you for your time.
Submitted by other on February 11, 2022

When I went to this school not only was I called certain slurs both racial and homophobic I have noticed a saddening lack of adult teachers that cannot seem to keep themselves from delving into topics such as politics and religion quite literally last time i was here not only was there a saddening amount of seemingly unreported sexual harassment of female students the school also did not ever listen and shut down a page that actively was hosting student complaints and showing them on the internet showing not only that this school was ignoring so many cases of sexual harassment and the like but also told a pregnant student to leave or else they also forced my history teacher to choose between either her own family or work this is a horrible school that also has a toxic culture not only does the idea of superiority seep in to the kids heads and give them a massive ego it also promotes a culture of bullying out queer or LGBT kids with racial slurs being used frequency this school was a horrid experience and i am glad i am out
Submitted by student on February 10, 2020

It's a good school with many benefits and down sides now the schools negatives are few and the positives out weigh the negatives.
Submitted by parent on January 11, 2020

The academics are good and if the child likes a strong stem program, this is a great school. There seems to be a lot of bullying and it's sad. There are not ant great after-school clubs or athletics. Gym class is a joke, my son has gym in a classroom and all they seem to do is stretch. It just depends on what school experience you are looking for.
Submitted by parent on August 12, 2019

My children have experienced incredible support and encouragement, appropriate intellectual challenge, hands on learning, guidance from all their teachers. . Even the gifted FC/CP (homeroom) teachers have been excellent in working with us to be sure all IEP enrichments were appropriate and implemented. LOVE this school and all the teachers there. I've referred several friends to ASK to have their children entered into the lottery so their children can experience 6-12 in this INCREDIBLE environment. Again, FANTASTIC GIFTED PROGRAMS.
Submitted by parent on April 10, 2018

The school is ok. The gifted program makes this school awful. If my students were not gifted students I would put them in ASK. But the middle school gifted teacher makes it not worth it. High school gifted program is pretty decent.
Submitted by parent on March 19, 2018

The gifted program for middle school is awful. The teacher just sits in the classroom doing paperwork and there is really no enrichment for students in the gifted program. They are just working on work from other classes 90% of the time. Besides that most of the school is really good.
Submitted by parent on February 05, 2018

Excellent school, teachers are extremely involved in their students success.
Submitted by parent on January 25, 2018

I find it interesting that even back in 2014 there were complaints on how they deal with students with ADHD, and nothing had changed. The bullying is now coming from the administration who had decided to hang a target on my child's back. Instead of helping him, they are building a case against him to remove him from the School. They did nothing to help prior to his diagnosis and things just got worse after his diagnosis. This school does not deserve the federal funding it is receiving.
Submitted by other on July 06, 2016

The adults at ASK seem to be more interested in their reputation with the PED and in hosting the governor and Skandera than the academic success of their students. All they want from students is good standardized test scores and if they need any extra support or have IEP goals, they are just a bother. ASK is very cliquey and only a small number of kids are included in the big, fun learning activities. Students eat outside in the dirt; expensive uniform slacks are newly required from a specific vendor instead of just enforcing the existing dress code; the humanities are sorely neglected and undervalued; there is no music or art; PE is a joke; staff turnover is unusually high...
Submitted by student on December 08, 2015

This school provides a great fun, interactive, engaging, and concise learning experience. I would recommend this school above all others.
Submitted by student on September 16, 2015

As a senior now at the ASK Academy I am very proud to say that this is without a doubt one of the best high schools in the state. I chose the engineering pathway and have loved it! Just recently in my aerospace class we have designed fully functional wind tunnels that the school is funding. This project has required use in CAD Design, multiple levels of math, time scheduling, and budgeting, all of these are skills that have been learned through throughout our high school career. In my years at the school I have also helped 3D Print out prototypes for personal projects, school projects, and research projects for Sandia National Labs! Another great thing about the 3D Printing department of the school is that it is all student led, the engineering project manager oversees the overall operation however all prints go through the scholars in that department. Through this school I am also on my way to patenting my very own design that I have spent three of my four years designing. The ASK Academy has also won two state championships in the VEX Robotics and have gone onto national and world competitions. I have also learned how to use peer reviews articles to write literature reviews and research papers similar to that in college. Keep in mind, I have barely scraped the surface of the engineering pathway, there is still the entire bio-medical pathway that has its great teachers and projects. Overall if you are looking into this school and want to decide off of these reviews, go off of the scholar reviews, we are the ones who have been to the school and experience it everyday throughout the school year.
Submitted by parent on August 07, 2015

Good school that treats scholars with respect and maturity. If your kid is a self directed learner looking for a career in STEM this IS the place.