Coyle Middle School

4500 Skyline Drive

School District

Garland Independent
Grade

7-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:16
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on May 20, 2024

Teachers put hands on students snatching them up and when it’s reported there are excuses made and the teacher retaliated . Teachers unprofessional. Daughter needed help and when she raised her hand was told to put it down because the teacher said she should know and would not repeat for notes after my daughter failed the test that covered the subject I brought this to the teacher attention and the next day she told my daughter “your too old to tell your mom everything. Stay away from coyle bad staff teachers and principal
Submitted by parent on February 25, 2024

This school is horrible my son has complained and complained that Pierson Phan has continually treat him unfairly this is unacceptable he cries every single day about what this teacher dose
Submitted by parent on October 17, 2023

We just came to this district, and there is some issue every single week and it’s only the 3rd month. The fundraiser is literally them wanting the parents friends, family, and coworkers numbers and emails to spam to ask for donations. This is unlike any fundraiser I have ever heard, no event, they are not selling anything, no car wash, just asking for money. Money has been asked for every single week. Today the children if they didn’t want to “twin” with someone , would get their electives taken away from them for “not participating”. I could go on and on with the issues we have had, and it’s just now the end of the 1st semester. If I knew how drastically different this school district was compared to RISD, I would have found a different place to live. Oh also, learned this, if a child misses two days of school in a row, very possible you may get a pop up from someone at the school for a house visit. Maybe I am getting old, but have never heard of such a thing. I will be looking into any other school to have my kids at.
Submitted by student on November 28, 2022

I swear this is one of the worst schools I have ever gone to not only were the teachers rude the kids were too, the fights were horrible almost every day the high score 7 in a day that is not a good thing that makes me sick to my stomach like the food does I have thrown up so many times and I started bring my lunch because of it. I WOULD NOT RECOMEND GOING HERE.
Submitted by parent on July 23, 2022

Terrible schoo teachers are rude administration is rude the whole school needs to be controlled
Submitted by parent on April 06, 2022

i went here and it was terrible
Submitted by student on March 23, 2022

This school honestly sucks they only care about grades
Submitted by parent on April 27, 2017

The school does not encourage excellence just passing
Submitted by parent on February 01, 2017

The school needs some more good parents and students.
Submitted by parent on January 27, 2017

My son attended Coyle 11 years ago and we had a pretty good experience and the principal was amazing. Fast forward now my daughter is in 6th grade this has been the worst five months in my time as a Mother and I can not imagine being a student at this school. There is no discipline or consequences for the disrespectful out of control kids. My daughter is being harassed and bullied, we are in the process of removing her. I strongly suggest to anyone considering this school to please do your research and find a different school. The teachers are past the point of helping. I believe most of them have been there so long they have given up. They are out of touch and probably exhausted from all the problem kids but it is affecting the students that are trying to get an education.
Submitted by parent on June 03, 2015

WORST school ever!!!! My daughter's first and LAST year there. At the beginning of the year, my daughter was struggling with math. Met with Dr. Barrett to try to come up with solutions to help my daughter. Instead of helping, she stated to me, " Your daughter isn't the only kid struggling." and then proceeded to walk out of the meeting that I thought we were still having. I'm left standing there in disbelief because I'm not believing that this woman just walked out of our meeting.. and I definitely can't believe what she just said to me. RUDE!!!! And, my daughter has also been jumped on by two other girls there and nothing was really done about that situation. I encourage any and every parent, who has a well disciplined and smart kid, to RUN the other way and don't think twice about sending your kid to Coyle Middle School. Trust me, it will definitely be a waste of a good school year and you will be disappointed with the principal and some of the staff.
Submitted by other on March 25, 2015

Safety for students is not a priority at this school. The large group of out of control students and their parents run the school and the principals back those students and the parents. There is no discipline, consequences or concern for the challenging, difficult and disrespectful students. They are allowed to disrupt the classroom and it is the teachers that are questioned about how they handle the student, rather than understanding that it is the students that should be reprimanded. The students that are the good students feel threatened and bullied by the other students and watch helplessly as the other students continue to badger the teachers, disrupt the learning and get away with it. Many parents have pulled their child from this school and Many more should consider it.
Submitted by other on August 09, 2013

This is the best school ever the students are very friendly and the teachers are very educated and the athletics are wonderful I definetly recommend this school to everyone!!!!
Submitted by parent on August 22, 2012

The school administration needs work. They are extremely unorganized. They use an automated calling program to give messages to the parents. Sometimes I will get the same recorded call three times in one night, with three different school administrators having recorded the same or similar message that they did not bother to rehearse beforehand. The school was built in 1973, and it has taken 40 years for them to figure out that they have no structured pick up/drop off plan. Traffic there is a nightmare.