Crossland High School, Camp Springs | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

This school is underfunded and understaffed you’ve got certain teachers who care and strive to help and understand students but others who really don’t care at all and you can tell it’s just for a paycheck ,on top of that permanent subs everywhere it’s an easy A with easy busy work but you end up with know knowledge of the course content. I had a permanent sub for English 11 a class I wanted to gain knowledge from and yet we wonder why test scores tend to be low. This year my senior year I took college prep algebra which I wanted to learn I’m preparation for college but my teacher taught us algebra 1 all year a ninth grade course from a ninth grade book I complained constantly and it took 3 quarters of her trying to reach us information she couldn’t even do properly she’d write a formula and then use it wrong and when they finally noticed there was no apology from the teacher that knowingly misstaught us and failed us as students she simply retired and moved to Florida out of the blue one day leaving us to start the course we should have been learning all year in the 4th quarter with a teacher who gave us work so basic a 4th grader could do it (mean median and mode, basic linear graphs plotting), the class sizes were huge with my English 12 class having 45 people in it daily and people who didn’t belong there sneaking in constantly and our poor teacher who’s incredibly nice and knowledgeable unable to manage everyone and most days not being able to teach at all. Recently I was instructed to take a senior survey on the school and I was shocked when it came to the guidance section because there was so much our counselors were supposed to be doing that they just haven’t at all no talks about future colleges or careers planning , as well as being put into classes we don’t need or want many of my friend’s ended up in Spanish 4 despite not needing it or wanting it and little knowledge of the language to begin with and voicing that fact to the counselors early in the year and repeatedly nothing changed ,I ended up taking Spanish one even though I had a credit from middle school and algebra one even though I’d already passed and had the credit on my transcript, I also was forced to take financial literacy for teens in 12th grade even though I passed it in ninth with a B avg some of the teachers are amazing and really relate to students however with for my first 3 years our principal not showing up save for once or twice a week (I get it she was sick but if it’s to the point where the school is suffering she should’ve retired much earlier for the good of the students and staff) I feel like this school has failed me as a student.

I went to Crossland High School. I graduated high school in 1999. My daughter is currently enrolled in this school. I can say this… school is what you make it and what you plan to get out of it. Every public school in PG County has it’s issues whether it be continuous fights, teen pregnancy, hall walkers and school skippers, they all have them. Crossland has classes that help you further your education. I am a proud alumni of Crossland.