Marshall Road Elementary School

730 Marshall Road Southwest

School District

Fairfax County Public Schools
Grade

PK, K-6
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:11
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on November 09, 2023

My child has been here for multiple years now. Their current teacher is amazing, and our previous teacher just wasn’t the right fit for our child. They were still a solid teacher that my child enjoyed. I cannot say enough about how fabulous their current teacher is. She is beautifully managing a classroom with 6 kids above grade level and other kids who have just immigrated to the US with limited English. My child has been placed in the AAP program they need, and their teacher is actively seeking the higher curriculum needed. My child loves their classroom. They are grouped by capability with lessons geared to each group. My child does have special needs. I proactively reached out to the school prior to their first school year and everything was well addressed. Their plan has been proactively managed with things added as needed. New things tried when the need arises. My child also faced disciplinary actions. The school communications were great about what happened and how they would be addressing the challenges as they arose. I was never blamed for the behavior, expected to remediate only at home, or not part of the plan. I have been equally impressed with the emphasis on socio-emotional learning. The community is great. My child has several friends and enjoys all the school activities such as the before school programs by the PTA, the community events, and seeing friends within our neighborhood. The SACC program is fabulous as well. The staff is fantastic and dedicated to their students. Finally the rating is what it is for 2 reasons, the highest level of need in the Vienna community (serves the lowest income group) and MRES being the center for special needs in the area. I see this as a positive as a large portion of the school is of a higher socioeconomic class and being exposed to a larger community is a good thing for me.
Submitted by parent on August 11, 2022

I like Marshall road elementary school. My kids very happy to go school.
Submitted by parent on July 23, 2022

Administration, teachers, and support are beyond expectation. I was concerned moving from a very highly rated school in Arlington to Marshall Road ES given its rating on this site. It blows any of my children’s previous schools out of the water, to include private schools.
Submitted by parent on July 26, 2021

The teachers are amazing. The administration is trying so hard to improve. Yet, this school is failing to deliver quality education. Smart people can debate the reasons why . . . or explain why things are difficult . . . but the reality is that kids are not learning. Fairfax has failed the faculty, staff, and students. I am so thankful that we pulled our child out of Marshall Road. My heart breaks for the teachers and staff who are hamstrung by Fairfax.
Submitted by parent on May 10, 2021

I have had 4 children go to this school 2 of which are at UVA and 2 who are at Madison High School. This school prepared my children socially and academically. I love the staff and administrators that love helping children.
Submitted by parent on January 06, 2021

I should start by saying I’m an educator myself and this was a bad experience. 1. Our child attended an after school activity and the bus from that activity came to pick her up. Around October my husband went to watch our child’s activity about 30 minutes after she was supposed to arrive and she was not there. When we asked the people in charge of the activity they said the school informed them our child wasn’t there. However she did attend school that day and we hadn’t heard anything. We began calling the school and I was about to call the police. In the end, the school forgot to get her to the bus and when they discovered this, instead of calling to inform us, they called the activity place to come back to pick our child up. It took over 45 minutes for her to get to her destination and in that time we didn’t know what was happening or where she was. We did meet with the assistant principal(AP) who did take responsibility for their mistake. 2. After my mother, a retired elementary principal went on a field trip with our child’s class she told me I needed to volunteer to observe what was happening in the classroom. I did just that. Upon arrival the class was still in a special. I was alerted to their return down the hallway to yelling, noise, and one student running into various empty classrooms. The students arrived and the teacher left the para, who happened to be a substitute, with 29 students. I started pulling groups to read in the hallway. Each time I entered the classroom chaos was occurring. One child was running around hitting others, another child was flipping his chair and actually tripped me, another child took her book bag and hit it over the head of another. The para was almost in tears asking me how to call the office for help. I, as the parent, went and got help. All the while, my child was sitting at her desk almost in tears and begging me to take her home. 3. I called a meeting with the AP about what I had witnessed. She was upset and claimed she would fix things. I was invited to observe again and that time during carpet time one child went up to another and kicked her in the head. The AP looked at me embarrassed and said something to the child. No children were listening and it was chaos again. 4. During COVID I realized my child was well behind in reading. I needed to put her on a program to catch her up. If she hadn’t been home due to COVID she would not be able to read. We pulled her out and she is now thriving.
Submitted by parent on April 04, 2019

Excellent. We transitioned a child from a private school and are extremely happy with the school.
Submitted by parent on August 14, 2018

We've had two children at this school and both experiences have been excellent.
Submitted by parent on May 16, 2018

My children are receiving exactly what they need at Marshall Road. Most importantly, they are learning how to be good citizens. Their academic knowledge is strong. There is a strong focus on reading. Treating other respectfully and being a good human is important to our family
Submitted by parent on April 09, 2018

it is okay with all the questions i answered
Submitted by parent on December 18, 2017

This school is poorly educated but has friendly staff
Submitted by parent on November 19, 2017

10/10! This is a fabulous school. Our children bounce into school everyday and really enjoy learning.
Submitted by parent on August 28, 2017

This is an incredible school. We just moved from Maryland and couldn't be happier with the school. They are very academic focused and really provide excellent attention to individual students.
Submitted by parent on August 10, 2017

My child has been beaten in this school. There was no justice desicion made after we complained.
Submitted by parent on August 09, 2017

Terrible experience, too much bullying, bare minimum curriculum of teaching, weak leadership and uncaring of principal
Submitted by parent on August 08, 2017

Very badly run , no effective leadership from principal, students are not really cared for and no respect, no learning, teachers do what they want and dont care either, not accountable.
Submitted by parent on June 25, 2017

MRES is a very poorly run school. Principle Heiges, Mr. Henson and lots of the staff do absolutely nothing to provide quality education to these students. In fact, they even act selfishly in preventing the school to grow. I would recommend you send your children anywhere but MRES. It is not a healthy and promoting environment I think for the students educational and emotional growth.
Submitted by parent on June 21, 2017

Excellent school with experienced staff and very supportive of the student's personal development.
Submitted by parent on June 01, 2017

MRES lacks leadership and Principle Heiges and her chosen entourage is a major reason for this school's lack of growth. They purposely withhold and hide information from the parents and students. The wise parents don't send their children to MRES. The children do not get a fair education in comparison to surrounding FCPS schools. The school does everything to prevent parents and students from knowing and learning what goes on in the classroom. Princ. Heiges smiles at you but truly does not care about the students and their families.
Submitted by other on October 03, 2016

My child went here for kindergarten in 2013-2014. What child doesn't want to go to school for kindergarten? My daughter hated it! It was a fight every day to get her to go. My daughter went to private school at Merritt Academy for K3 and K4 and was more advanced that the material they were teaching. The teacher would not adjust to my daughter's level, and tried to call her a delinquent instead. They didn't like for me to show up to see what was going on. The principal told me "I'm sure whatever the teacher said is what really happened." (Then why can't I go on back?) The worst part of my child's time there was during the first full week of school, they released my daughter early, without a note from me, to a child care provider who didn't have access to pick up children from the school in the afternoon PERIOD. And I had to ride around Fairfax trying to figure out where my child was at 6:00 PM when most stuff is CLOSED! When I confronted the principal, she admitted that there were no checks and balances and didn't apologize once. We could've probably pressed charges, but I just took my daughter out of there ASAP! When we moved, my daughter went from being a "delinquent" to a "social butterfly"... it's amazing how the only thing that changed was the environment. Be very cautious of this school!