Randolph High School

Outstanding teachers!! Great students!! Small classroom sizes!! Good athletics that any student who wants to participate can!!

This school has tanked since the new principal came. His great ideas were to lengthen the school days and dangle a remotely possible short day on Fridays. The homework load has gotten heavier and the failure rate is double what it was this time last year. I have two children who are excellent students--traditionally have had all A's and a B here or there. They are inundated with busy work. Kids are falling asleep in class because if you add ANY extra curricular activities, they are up until 11, 12, even 1am! They begin harassing students 5 minutes after the early release on Fridays to "Get to a Center". They have 10 minutes to be picked up or leave on Fridays or they have to be in a center. Yippee. Early release is such a benefit, right? I am not sure that it will be worth staying--even if we don't PCS. Teachers work on the tenure program, so if they make it past 2 years, there would have to be an earthshattering reason to get them replaced. Not very motivating to keep it fresh. There are a handful of excellent teachers, and those are the ones who are fed up with the new administration as well.

I loved Randolph! I attended the elementary school from pre-k all the way to 6th grade at the middle school. Then I had move overseas and attend a Dodea school (which offers a wide range of classes, tho very small). I am now transferring back to Randolph as a Sophomore. And I don't know what to expect. I hear from my former classmates and friends that the teachers are mean and there are limited classes. In my Dodea school, I've been on the track of JROTC and I'm looking forward to continuing that class. And I know that Randolph doesn't.... When it should. So I will have to begin the program, and I'm starting to wonder how difficult of a task this will be.... :/

If you are not married to an officer don't send your children here. The pecking order is set and enlisted kids are always screwed over,