Kemp Mill Elementary School

This school has a serious issue with LICE !!!The nurse will call you to pick up your child but yet parents are not informed that there is a LICE breakout in the classroom. When I asked why not, the nurse stated they would be informing all the parents,,,,, never happened, every year for the last three years , same thing , Not proactive at all , school should inform all parents in the classroom once an outbreak happens so we can all be cautious and take preventative measures.

Our experiences in the past with different administrators were overall more positive than our experience under the current principal. I think the language program has merit, but be aware that MCPS has done away with English only options at the lower level. You should be prepared to move your child if you do not want to participate. It is opt out, not opt in. The principal's first year he was so focused on test scores and so out of touch that he caused great harm to the program - students received little to no Spanish that year, even if they were on target in English. I give him no credit for the improvements to the program. Some of the changes have been directives from central office. I think the school suffers from a bad principal who frequently passes blame from himself to teachers, and puts too much emphasis on test scores and pet projects that make him look goof. The school cannot retain good teachers and there is a constant shuffle of teachers to fill gaps. Teachers may be new to the language program or new to the school or new to the grade or a combination of the above. The school would be greatly helped by better morale and a stable staffing situation. I think everything would improve with a better administrator. He seems very out of step with the school community. I would have rated it lower, but our earlier experiences with KMES were more positive.

If you want your children to go to a hispanic school this is the school for you. Diveristy is an issue and they push spanish speaking on everyone. My children were placed in a spanish program without my consent and it took 3 years to remove them with no help from the school. PTA is great and the teachers are very nice and do an ok job. If you like re-teaching your children the homework every night this is the school for you

This school has a excellent language immersion program.