Carter G. Woodson Middle School

I have two children currently attending Carter G. Woodson Middle School. My 8th grader has enjoyed being involved in activities and maintains honor roll status. The teachers have been great in challenging her. My 6th grader is adjusting to being in a middle school environment and is benefiting from the elective program. The morning intervention is great because she obtains extra assistance in reading. I am looking forward to our first PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE next week.

I have been extremely pleased with the teachers and administration at this school. The teachers truly care about the students and want the absolute best for them. However, I believe many of the students here have little to no discipline or involvement from parents, which makes the teacher's job very difficult. My child loved most of his teachers and felt like they did a good job in teaching him but he was constantly complaining about the ridiculous behavior of the other children. More parental involvement and discipline at home is what many of the kids in this school need.

Horrible leadership. Too many principals and no one is on the same page! I have had 2 kids at this school and I attended it years ago. This school has become so ghetto and the teachers are ill prepared to handle the kids. We have had instances where a teacher was harrassing my kid just because she didnt like her, she wrote my kid up for things that other kids were doing, I complained but the principal for her grade but he took up for the young, pretty teacher. The way he looked at her made me think there was more to their relationship then professionalism. Not all of the teachers and personnel are bad but the school is bad enough that we will be moving to avoid having to send our child there again next school year. If you are moving to the Hopewell area, do your self a favor and tour this school when it's in session and do your research.

My son is thankfully on his last year at Carter G Woodson. The teachers are worst than the children. They treat the kids nice if they like them , and write up and give a hard time to the ones they don't like. Most immature but of adults I ever met . This parent can't wait until this school year is done !!!!!