Beacon Hill Middle School, Decatur | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

As a former student,this school was pretty mediocre. Since it’s an ib school parents think it’s such a good school and their child can get the best education that they need,but that is completely wrong. First the teachers, they honestly can’t keep their cool but it’s kinda funny. Class work, the class work is very good for our education but the home work is actually ridiculous. And then when we get our “smmatives” they’re confusing and how they question things are really weird. And most teachers don’t even teach us what’s on the test. And then we have “formatives” JUST CALL IT A QUIZ!! If the teachers say it’s a formative the students won’t rven care because it’s not really part of their grade, it’s part of our “effort grade”. I think effort grades our pretty stupid. Your grade should reflect on your effort. It’s like telling your self that you failed that class but at least they tried and did the homework and turned in their stuff. The effort grade should bee taken out of the report card because sometimes your grade and your effort grade don’t even match up. Oh and the food. Which is gross. I suggest you to pack a lunch, eat pizza/salad, or not eat anything at all. Their lunches are actually gross. Plus, lunch is our only break, we don’t have any other break, and think that’s kind of unhealthy. We don’t have time to let our brains rest. We wake up, work for 7 hours, do extra activities, do homework, eat, and go on our phones and stay up. And we do this for 180 DAYS. And sometimes the teachers are really extra. For 7th graders you have to do a big 6 project where you pick a topic that involves Africa and write an essay about it . Not bad,wrong. It took almost a month to get that finished because you had to do things in steps and wait for days to let the teacher check off your work when you could get this done in a week. And we had to use very specific sources which had little to no information.the 8th grade teachers are pretty cool though. But the fact that the teachers don’t really critique your writing in ela, and you continuously get the same grade because you can’t improve. Same for science. So the student has no idea on how they should improve their work and when they ask it’s usally a weird answer. Overall, the school is very extra and ridiculous.

This school was very good. Lot’s of supportive and caring teachers. I learned a lot here in educational purposes and social purposes. Great school.

Bro thus school is lit I go to this school everyday and learn