Scurlock Elementary

In my opinion this school has gone way down hill in the past 5-8 years but this 20-21 school year I have seen a drastic positive change in my child who has made massive improvement and a much more positive outlook on her education. Fingers crossed this continues when a normal school curriculum resurfaces.

If there were negative numbers we would be to the far left! There are a few good teachers here don't get me wrong. But the administration and overall student population make this school unsafe! I have emails and notes where a student threatened to kill my child(2 different students in one school year) they both got a 5 day suspension and that is it! After pulling my child to homeschool I later found the same students returned and continued the same behavior! It's unacceptable! They do not care about getting to the root of problems and implementing a plan to prevent things in the future! Also, school events are very unorganized! We had a line out into the rd with parents waiting to pick up thier students after a dance. We were all under the impression it would be ran like car rider line because the sheet nor the automated calls pertaining to the dance said otherwise. After several parents started walking toward the school they found several teachers standing there with all the students in different rooms. The parents told them no one knew to get out and come get their child so the teachers asked this parent to inform the others on their way out! None of them had clipboards or any documentation on who was allowed to pick up students and who wasn't! Parent involvement is very little at this school. I tried getting info on PTO several times with no response. We came from an excellent school district im GA with parent nights and continuous events for students to a school who does minimal! It's sad. Lastly, I've asked several Raeford natives what they know about Scurlock and all of them had the same response, "Do not send your child there! It's a bad area and the worst school we have!" I didn't take their advice initially and gave it a try, DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE!

Terrible administration and even worse at the level above them. The teachers do their best but the people in charge won't take the necessary steps to help make the school better.

Great for 1 child HORRIBLE for my other child. My kindergartener is doing amazing his teacher is great she sets up conferences when she is concerned about something, he is reading wonderfully he genuinely enjoys school.... now with that being said my first grader has had a completely different experience! He started the year excited and ready to go after about a week that changed to crying and begging me not to drop him off saying his teacher was mean and yelled I brushed it off for a weeks thinking ok its just a new school he will get used to it and when he started falling behind and struggling with things I knew he understood I called the school after many failed attempts of trying to get my call returned or being told my the women at the front desk that maybe I should just get over it pretty much he will be fine I went to the school board. Now since that I haven't had any issues with my son saying she is mean and embarrasses him but he went from a bright bubbly eager to learn student to falling behind and now is on the verge of failing the first grade! I am paying for outside tutoring because I feel like he is not getting the help he needs in the classroom he constantly comes home with incomplete work and when I ask why he responds well she tells me to keep up and I cant so I do what I can... he's in first grade!!! I never once had an issue with him falling behind in K he was actually was above the rest of the class average. This school has ruined my child's spirit to learn in first grade. Stay far away if possible they have some amazing teachers but the bad apples ruin it, its not worth the chance if getting one!