Spring Forest Middle School

It is a overall average school but its bullying policy is terrible.

My experience is as a parent of a 6th and 8th grader, as well as a lot of volunteering at the school. My experience has always been very positive, no complaints. I think the school deserves more recognition that it receives

My daughter went to private school for 6 years. She has ADD, Anxiety & sensory issues. She was made to feel bad constantly. At one point she just came home and kept saying, "I'm a bad kid." She's not a bad kid. She's a kid with things going on. That private school had a little over 100 students in it. But they could never give my daughter the emotional support she needed. They wanted perfect children which my daughter is not. So when she hit 6th, we decided to make the jump to public. We put her in SFMS. I have never seen her so happy. Her grades are amazing. 4 A's and 3 B's & she just won the STAR award. She says this school is awesome because the kids have more freedom.The principle is there for drop off and pick up. Always waving at the parents. There are roughly 915 students at this school, and that man knows which kid goes to which car. He's fully engaged. The teachers are amazing. Out of all the years she's been in school, this is the least stressful out of them all. I highly recommend SFMS. She has not been bullied at all. She's not a social person. She just keeps to herself and other girls in the school gravitate to her. They are a very close community.

Bullying is a problem in this school. My child was coming from a private school overseas to this school and I must say that he was bullied weekly sometimes daily, he did not know how to respond, I only found out about it after about 4 months from start of school year. In one instance he was thrown down in the hallway in clear view of a teacher who was standing at the class door, however apparently, the teacher smiled and went into class pretending he did not notice. He was being bullied by the same kids over and over, I went to school a number of times to meet with the class advisor, the student would go to detention for a day or two or had to come to school on Saturday but the incident kept on repeating. I was fortunate because my child’s grade were excellent, I enrolled him in a private school the following year and now he is on his way to MIT. When we sit and talk, he sometimes tells me about what he went through in that school and I am still bothered by what I put this child through on his first year when we relocated to Houston. The academics in this school is just like any other public school, and I do not see what is so great about this school.