Bitely (Arlene) Elementary School

7501 Fern Avenue

School District

Garvey Elementary
Grade

K-6
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:22
Type

public

School Map for Garvey Elementary School District

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Reviews

Submitted by other on January 18, 2024

I am a former student at this school. I would highly recommend your children go to a different school, up until grade 5 the school starts to show its many flaws. To begin with, the 5th grade teachers can be mean to your children. when I went here for 5th grade the teachers used fear to get the students to do what they wanted. They used a blue paper called a blue sheet, which you would write what you did wrong and acknowledge what you did wrong, but it never works on student because they just space out their letters, so it looks like they wrote a whole paragraph. Furthermore, the 6th grade has two teachers one good teacher and 1 bad teacher. One of the 6th teachers isn't organized and doesn't care about bullying or discrimination. The school doesn't take bullying seriously and doesn't have family engaging events. The learning environments are hostile, and most of the teachers are mean. I didn't have a good experience when I went here and lots of people agree with me. I hope that you consider taking your child to this school.
Submitted by other on October 09, 2023

I was a former student at this school. However, the school didn’t give me a good education experience. I still love this school and I’ve made a few beautiful and sad memories here. Everytime I think of the beautiful and sad memories, it makes me very sad because I met my best friend here and then we parted ways and still stayed best friends. We met again when I came to Garvey which is a school next door. But then, we parted ways after a year bc our friendship didn’t work out and then she moved out of town. So, I’ll never see her again. She was kinda toxic and i got suspended at Garvey because of her. But yea, I’m never gonna see her ever again because I’m going to a different high school. Overall, I love this school. But some of the teachers treated me bad. They need to get their act together. I do give this school five stars though because some of the teachers were nice and I give five stars to the teachers that were nice to me.
Submitted by parent on February 19, 2015

both of my son went to this school, friendly stuff, great school, great teacher, highly recommended
Submitted by parent on November 07, 2008

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Submitted by student on May 08, 2007

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