Carlisle Elementary School

Excellent, couldn’t be happier. Great teachers and network of parental involvement too.

We love this school, the parents, the staff, the PTA and the teachers!

My son has attended this school from Kindergarten now through fifth grade. He has epilepsy, ADHD, and Asthma, and the Nurse (Nurse Grace) has been on top of his seizure action and asthma action plans. She is wonderful. My son loves going to school each day of each year. All of his teachers have been very understanding in regards to my sons IEP, maintaining his annual ARD meetings, and giving him goals that not only help him to thrive, but that are also achievable and realistic. They also have an after school care program, PASAR, which is VERY affordable, and he has a blast there. He gets homework help, as well as has the opportunity to play with his friends (and even his teachers' own kids). I was not able to be as involved with the PTA as I would have liked due to work, but there is a lot of parent involvement and it is beneficial to all kids at the school. I love this school and recommend it to any family.

I have two grandchildren attending this school with one in second and one in first grade to give me first hand experience with the programs, educators, office staff, specialist, and administrative entities. In each case starting with the principal, Dr. Linda Patrick, to the office staff, Cindy and Paula, I can tell you there is an extra effort extended to one and all that is rarely seen in any working environment. I watched Dr. Patrick offer a cute but motivating reward to the student body and when they achieved the goal she was right there to show them her support. She had challenged them to meet a goal that would bring electronic into the school for their benefit and told them she would do the "chicken dance" in front of the weekly assembly if they met the challenge. They did and she did, but she did this with such a positive fun attitude and projected so much fun, that the whole student body was up with her. That takes a lot of courage as an adult to show that even the people in charge are capable of leading them into fun situations while doing a good turn for the school as well as for the student body. I have seen through my personal experience during my volunteer work this attitude is woven through out the rest of the educators involved with the students so my comment is a big thumbs up for Carlisle Elementary School in Plano, Tx.