Bell Creek Academy

13221 Boyette Road

School District

Hillsborough
Grade

6-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:20
Type

charter

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on October 31, 2023

Good school and the teachers really care, but the Administration, mainly the principal run the school like a prison camp. The students and teachers are constantly bullied by the Principal and her little group of Yes Men. The Principal really only cares about awards that the school can get and doesn’t care about the average student.
Submitted by parent on August 10, 2023

My son has been in this school since the 6th grade! He has ADHD, and the tutoring days the teachers offer are life-changing for him. The staff care and want to see your child succeed! We love Bell Creek!!!
Submitted by parent on March 09, 2023

My child has been at this school since 6th grade. They are in high school now. My child has excelled and blossomed over the years. It’s a small school and I believe the staff really does care about their students. While the elective classes are limited, they still offer options to meet a lot of goals and open new points of view. When my child was given the option to switch schools at the beginning of high school, they declined, and wanted to stay at Bell Creek through graduation, especially since they were able to start dual enrollment in 9th grade. BCA isn’t perfect, no school is, but I’m so happy my child was able to attend and thrive at BCA.
Submitted by student on November 02, 2022

Been here since 6th grade. The administration is terrible! They have their heads up their behinds as far as policies. Teachers are leaving (I have lost 1/4 of my teachers) because of how garbage the administration is. They disturb class time by randomly surging into rooms interrupting class time to enforce their phone policies. Micromanaging like this accomplishes nothing! The test scores and academics is truly just projected. We don’t even have a trigonometry teacher. Now not even going to talk about the 80% budget put into the football team, or the barely functional laptops that the school keeps on buying. Both of them suck by the way. The events in school are also mediocre at best. Our class hasn’t had a field trip since 8th grade, and the homecomings/prom are very low quality, this is debatable to some but, in my opinion they’re low quality. But one good thing I can say is that they have dual enrollment, which is good if you want free college courses. However, the clubs are limited and I already brought up how limited the extracurricular activities were.
Submitted by parent on May 11, 2021

I would NOT recommend this school. My children transferred in & it took almost 4 months for them to place my children in the correct classes. The administration cares more about having the kids come to school w the proper attire than actually caring about them. The teachers have poor communication & will fail their students rather than care about them. The leaders are like this & it’s discouraging to the students. Even as an active parent this was a tough school to adjust. Do not send your child if they have an IEP. They have limited services & will remove your child from their IEP & try to fail them instead. Really frustrating experience.
Submitted by parent on August 23, 2020

I highly recommend Bell Creek Academy School. My three kids have attended the school and they have excelled with the curriculum that they have provided. Thank you to the teachers and staff for the amazing job.
Submitted by parent on January 11, 2020

My daughter has been at Bell Creek for 5 years and will be graduating next year. She has excelled there. Small class sizes, challenging curriculum, and teachers that care. Only negative I can say is lack of communication, although they are working on it.
Submitted by parent on September 14, 2018

So far, I am not impressed with this school. I chose it for the test score ratings and it has been a disaster so far. Communication with the teachers is near impossible and then everything being based on cell phone with a bunch of apps to download in order to get homework to me is annoying. Keep it simple. They tell you to download remind app, then in remind app they tell you to download google classroom for homework, then another app for this and another for grades and you can't communicate with them through these apps. If your child doesn't have a cell phone then they will fail at this school because they will give you a bad grade for not accessing their assignments through these apps. My daughter had to literally take her ipod to school to give to the teacher to set up her class codes to access assignments because she was not getting credit for stuff. Really?? School shouldn't be based through that. Cell phone usage with apps or even ipods should be optional. They charge a fee for EVERYTHING from lockers, lab fees, books, music rentals, and if you don't have exactly the correct supplies, they give you bad grades for it. It makes no sense.
Submitted by parent on August 15, 2018

My son has just started going to BCA, the approach to student progress is very promising.
Submitted by parent on August 10, 2018

The teachers are wonderful but are led by an administration that is incapable or unwilling to think out of the box to address student's needs.
Submitted by parent on May 15, 2018

Great school! I would highly recommend this school!
Submitted by parent on April 26, 2018

We moved our daughter to this school last year. It has been the best! They are strict but they do abide by their word when it comes to student support and school ethics. Great school!
Submitted by parent on February 03, 2018

This school is a disaster. The best thing we ever did was pull our child from this school. The leadership is terrible and there is high teacher turnover. The music program is a joke and the arts are not supported at the school. They brag about test scores, but kick out the kids that can't perform. Any school that filters their enrollment can have high test scores. It isn't a result of their curriculum or teaching. They looked the other way when our child was being bullied. They also don't follow IEPs, which is illegal! Do yourself a favor and scratch this off the list as an option for you kid.
Submitted by parent on October 04, 2017

My son is in the 7th grade if I could do over would've sent him somewhere else. Parents and students beware the school is a blocked schedule. This year Monday through Thursday is 4 classes 90 minutes each class. Fridays are normal class schedules.
Submitted by parent on July 24, 2017

We have been at the school for an entire year and love it!
Submitted by parent on July 18, 2017

I think the scores alone speak tremendously about the teachers and administration. The test scores are consistently far beyond state and county average. The teachers and administration are dedicated to the success of the students.
Submitted by student on July 12, 2017

Not only does the school lack in compassion towards their advanced students, many of the advanced students in advanced classes did not wish to be put in there. In middle school, the administration doesn't care about if you think you can handle the advanced academic, they put you there for the good ratings. And then, when you fail the class, they don't let you retake the class on FLVS or even adknowledge that you are actually having problems with the course. They just write you off as lazy even though you told them that you couldn't do the classes. In addition, the teachers are constintly rotating around like clockwork, as if they can't keep any of the good ones. All of the new teachers are terrible in leadership and they do not understand what it is like to be a child in those shoes. Not all of the teachers are bad, but the ones who are good will most likely leave the following year. During my time in their Middle School, only 3 of my teachers from 7th grade stayed by the end of my time there. No joke. The school also holds high standards to their students that even the best of them cannot do. Students are not allowed to sit where they want, they have a 30 minute lunch period, and students are not allowed to even learn in the classes. Teachers give major busy work that doesn't even apply to the courses. Teachers and administration are not concered at all with bullying or how students feel, because at the end of the day, it is the schools fault their students cannot pass any tests. Also, the only autistic student there is constintly picked on by students. Adminestration and teachers did little to nothing to ensure the taunting stopped. The middle school Galileo Program is a good head start for students who actually have a chance at completing the courses, with Pre- Algebra 6th grade, Algebra and Physical Science 7th grade, and Biology and Geometry in 8th grade. However, I have seen my best friends fail and cry over the classes because teachers failed to deliver, and that they didn't even ask to be in the class in the first place. Bell Creek attempts to seem elite and a good school, but really, they are just terrible in leadership, compassion, and their Middle School is terrible unless you are smart enough and emotionally compact, so you don't have mental breakdowns every night. Basically, do not send your child here. This school is a complete joke.
Submitted by parent on October 11, 2016

BCA is an amazing school in many ways. It provides our children with a quality education that far exceeds other schools in our area. The teachers are caring, gifted and use evidenced based practices in their instruction. We are also thrilled with the opportunity of the Galileo Program. And the admin really cares about the students!
Submitted by other on September 01, 2016

My son is a freshman at BCA and is having a great experience so far!!! Thank you to all the teachers and staff for making this experience once to remember.
Submitted by other on July 14, 2016

Bell creek does not have a rigorous or hands on curriculum. The school is too poor to afford materials or curriculum to better the students.