Parkmont School

I must say the staff seem very friendly. The librarian. She made my sons first day I am easy transition. She Was very helpful.

This school may be great, but I’ll never know because my child was not «chosen» to attend this school year. And it turns out we decreased our chances of attending any time soon by exercising our «parental choice» to enroll him in an immersion program. The rating of one, lowly star is for the office staff. It looks like they’ve already received some poor reviews, so I won’t go in to much detail, but they need to get knowledgeable; more specifically, they should know enrollment policies and procedures and be able to explain them to parents who already have full-​time jobs of their own and shouldn’t be expected to also to do the jobs of the school office staff! And lose the chips on your shoulders; the school year hasn’t even started yet!

The teachers and staff there are amazing and my child loves to go to school everyday. My daughter’s 5^th grade teacher is very amusing and according to her: makes lessons fun to learn. We have brought both of our children there and there has never been a complaint from them before (besides some kind of fight with a friend or schoolmate) They have a great campus and wonderful play ground and play area where my daughter can enjoy her recess time. Thanks to her teacher, she is a straight a student and has been even since 4^th grade as well. thank you parkmont staff.

I have two kids attending Parkmont. One in 6^th and the other in 1^st grade. There are some excellent teachers but only a few!!! The office staff is the worst. They are a bunch of rude and lazy ladies who sit there and chat all day. Every time I have gone in there they act like they are annoyed. They are a bunch of self centered individuals that have been hired for the wrong position. They make adult as well as the kids very uncomfortable. My children are so intimidated by these old hags.
Oh and let me tell you about the principle Mrs. Schmitt, she is worthless! She has been at parkmont for a few years and has done nothing for the school nor the children. She is so rude and unfriendly!
So you may be wondering why they have such high scores on APIs, right? Well it’s because of the parents who are very involved in their kids education.
I can’t wait to pull my kids out if this school!

I have 2 kids going to this school, and they both are having a good time! It’s been tough with the budget cuts and increase in class sizes, but Parkmont has really been trying to compensate for it. For kindergarten, they have early & late birds, so that the teachers can work with smaller class sizes for at least 1 hour of the day. Plus, it helps with the pick up and drop off traffic.
As with any school, it makes a difference which teacher your child actually gets. And I’ve observed a particular teacher yelling an awful lot for being a kindergarten teacher. But the overall curriculum is good and the pace of learning is challenging but not overly so. They have online resources that supplements their learning. For fundraising, they just do it only once a year called the Panther Prowl. My kids get excited each year and both enjoy running at the Prowl to raise funds for the school.
My biggest complaint is that this school usually has way too many kids each year trying to enroll for kindergarten, and there is a 50% chance your child may not get in even though you live in the area. It makes the first week or so a little stressful for everyone, trying to figure out where everyone should be going. Luckily my child made it in, or else I would of been very sad as I am a 5 minute walk from the school.

Rude principal behaviour: my son was going to parkmont since KG, he is now in 3^rd grade. We have to go on emergency trip and my son was absent from school for 13 days. We have informed school about our emergency trip and prinicipal kept saying that if you dont return on 11 day, your son would be dropped from school. When we returned, my son went to school and after few minutes, he was sent back to principal office and we were called to pick him up. He was sent to principal office as if my son has done something wrong. When we met principal she has said that your son has been dropped from school and he has to goto another school. has not been to school for last two days due to this mess. I was really disappointed due to principal behaviour.

My son had an accident in his PE class. He was pushed from behind and fell onto the track while running laps. His skin on cheek was scratched and left with over 20 1-​to-​2-​inch bloody cuts. One lens of his glasses was scratched as well, but luckily, wasn’t broken to injure his eyes.
The PE teacher hadn’t done anything to mitigate immediately. He simply told my son that his glasses were scratched and asked him to continue to run. He didn’t check how serious the cuts were, and didn’t do the necessary to help a 6-​year-​old, his student to feel less painful. When the class returned to classroom, there was no communication to the head teacher of the accident.
How about the head teacher of the class? She was told by other students of what happened. She sent my son to wash his wound himself. As a result, after he returned home, there was still sand in his cuts as well as his mouth. She didn’t attempt to get in touch with the PE teacher to investigate more. Hadn’t my wife specifically asked, she didn’t proactively explain to the parent what had happened.
Throughout the 3 hours after the accident took place, neither teachers had the slightest intention to send the injured child to office to have the wound checked up; neither of them thought of calling the parents; neither bothered to understand and document the accident. These simple and common sense responses were simply not in their mind.
When we talked with the principal afterwards, she was impatient during the conversation as if it wasn’t a serious matter.
She later on admitted that the teachers didn’t take this matter appropriately, and assured us that she would talk to both teachers. However, in a swift manner, she swallowed her own words 2 minutes later, and decided that the head teacher didn’t do anything wrong. Was it right to notice the injury but not notify the office and the parents? Was it appropriate to send a first grader to wash his cuts himself? Was it a responsible behavior as the head teacher knowing little about the accident?

My both sons go to Parkmont Elementary school.
This school is located in Fremont downtown. This school has a very good racial mix. The school is very competitive yet they also have very good after school activities and school teams.
My son is in after-​school band for 2 years. My other son is just in first grade. Both of them like this school. They quite enjoy life at this school.