Lakeside Elementary School

229 Lake Avenue North

School District

Glencoe-Silver Lake
Grade

3-6
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:14
Type

public

School Map for Glencoe-Silver Lake School District

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on May 17, 2013

This school is horrible. My son is 10 and has had nothing but constant complaints about the teachers. If your child is getting picked on, he/she will most likely get punished for defending themselves while the bully suffers no consequences. Go ahead and bring it up to the Super Intendant, School Councilor, or principal. I can assure you that nothing will get done. I also attended this school when i was younger. It was bad then. Worse now. Strongly considering pulling my child out of this school. If there was an option for giving negative stars, it would get -5.
Submitted by parent on January 29, 2012

We moved to Glencoe when my son was to start 6th grade, this was the last year these grades were at the Henry Hill school building. Our first indication that there was a problem was the fall conferences. My son's math teacher told us he had my son working out of the book on his own in the back of the room because he had a class full of 6th graders who did not know their multiplication tables and he could not teach them long division. How does a grade full of kids pass along that many years without having learned their tables?!?!? Also a big complaint, k-8 share one bus exposing young kids to high schoolers and their bad behaviors. I know the superintendent has changed since then, but the school have not improved. GSL is also all about football, if you are not into sports in this district you are a nobody. Check the MDE "school report cards" and see how GSL scores below the state average in all subjects. Interesting that the nearby Hutchinson school district scores above the state average in all subjects and yet spends less per pupil than GSL spends. I wish we'd have researched the district before we moved there, if we had known we'd have bought a house in another community.