Webster Middle School

75 Poland Street

School District

Webster
Grade

5-8
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:14
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by student on May 16, 2024

I am at the last bit of 7th grade here is my review, I moved here in 5th grade (I come from a medium class home) at first it was fine but going to 6th the new dean of students arrived treated us like we were nothing, then this year we got a school shooting treat and the admin never told parents teachers treat kids like garbage and the system makes kids learn nothing I barely know how to do algebra and its almost 8th grade, fights every week, please never send your kid here they will come back with anxiety if I could I would say 0/10
Submitted by parent on May 02, 2024

My family and I will be forever grateful for this school. The work they do with our daughter who has autism is incredible. they always have activities for parents to participate in. GOD BLESS YOU
Submitted by other on April 21, 2024

dont send your kids here, unless you want them to be mentally abused by the teachers, mostly the dean of students.
Submitted by student on February 12, 2024

im in 7th grade right now and this school is so bad lol. dont go here unless you're prepping to be in hell
Submitted by student on December 12, 2023

This school at first welcoming (im a 7th grade student at the time of writing this), and it does have elevators for the disabled to use when allowed to. There's currently only like 3 teachers that are actually good, and the school didnt really do anything about the school shooting threat, and i saw one of my friends get jumped yesterday (7th grade, 12/11/23), and the school didnt punish the kid that jumped my friend at all. I wouldnt really recommend this school.
Submitted by student on December 11, 2023

This school is trash no support in this school,(7th Grade student) After a School Shooting threat that wasn't addressed to parents after the fact, and the school, doesn't help people with problems, this school will not support your kid
Submitted by student on November 16, 2023

This is a school I wouldn't recommend, I am part of a low income family and I'm stuck at this school (7th grade) The school is "all for one and one for all" if one kid does something bad everyone else gets in trouble, don't ask how many times I had to say "its an emergency" when the school got a bathroom list (1 student per gender bathroom) and in the 3-4 months i've been in 7th there has been 3 or more encounters of fighting with the same person and the school decides to keep suspending and not help the student, and the student goes and makes a school shooting threat. The dean does not care about your problems and will yell at you no matter what without any info on the problem, this is very bad for people with depression and anxiety. The students are pretty much terrible because they have lost all respect for teachers. not all the teachers are terrible because they do want to help children learn, but its the school system not keeping students in check and not helping with academic levels that's the problem. the school system will not help with average levels for 7th grade math being 4th grade level. The school is overall terrible, fighting, bad education, the students, the teachers. don't come here, sure some people are nice but just don't. do online or just go to a different school.
Submitted by other on November 28, 2022

I went to this school for all 4 years, 5th grade through 8th. The negative comments and reviews on his place are nothing short of extremely true. In most cases a quiet kid wouldn’t be affected by their classmates behavior, however this school thought poor behavior from one group of students meant discipline for the entire grade. 5th-7th wasn’t that bad, I can’t complain about it because of covid and such. When we got back however and 8th grade began it was just straight up crazy. None of these kids are being dramatic. There was a ton of fights, to which the school responded with suspension instead of trying to resolve the issue at the source. Since there was so many fights, the only other solution besides suspension was giving us assigned seats during lunch. One of the only times we got to socialize was ruined because of a couple of kids with poor thinking skills. Some of my peers thought it was smart to skip class in the bathrooms and plan fights there. That resulted in the school creating a bathroom rule where only one kid ( no matter the gender ) could leave to go to the bathroom at one time. Meaning if my friend was in the bathroom for 20 minutes the whole 8th grade would get backed up. The bathroom list got long, and even if it was an emergency they wouldn’t let more than one kid in the entire classroom go. I can’t even fully speak on the amount of hate and harassment that went around the school. I would mind my own business with my friends in gym class and the same two guys would swear at us, make fun of us, and get all up in our face just because we wouldn’t try to play the game. That experience might not go for anyone but no kid deserves to be verbally harassed like that. The worst 8th grade boy rarely got suspended, nobody wanted to put up with him even though he was unnecessarily rude. It shows that they don’t even try to change someone’s behavior or work on it, they just suspend them or let them do whatever because this school doesn’t care about it’s students at all.
Submitted by parent on May 18, 2021

Webster does NOT know how to handle children with behavior issues. My son has adhd and odd. They do not want to try and help him. All they do is suspend him. Do not send your child threw this school system if they have any kind of behavior disorder.