Meridian School, Round Rock | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Heya. I go here. My other review is listed under “Evan Rodriguez” but for whatever reason I can’t change it. Onto the actual review itself. To begin, I’ve been going here since first grade in 2011. I was, in general, a bad student. Completely objectively horrible. I actually want to congratulate this school on sticking with me and helping me figure out that I need to get my life together. The programs they have in place to help students are really good, and I almost never have issues with staff. Schoolwork is another story entirely.

I am well aware Meridian is an IB world school. Hence the name. Despite this, the workload is often nearly unbearable. Quite enough, I find that if I don’t slack off a bit, I’d never have any semblance of free time. This issue boils down to one thing; homework. A possible solution to this is simple relaxation. Instead of trying to cram everything down our throats like a mother mockingbird feeding her stupid loud kids outside my bedroom window, I suggest they try to teach everything necessary in class. This leaves kids the ability to research things they may actually be interested in at home. This keeps kids from having to think about the battle of whatever, something they don’t actually need to know.

Further still, the language curriculum is extremely lacking. Despite being, I reiterate, an INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE WORLD SCHOOL, Meridian is frustratingly lacking in the language acquisition department, the likes of which I’ve never seen in an IB situation. The only languages taught are French and Spanish. If you aren’t quite aware, these are already very readily spoken around us, as we were colonised by those nations first. Extracurricular classes are readily avaliable. I’ve taken interest in several languages simply not avaliable to me, these being Javanese, Finnish, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Russian and German. None of these classes are offered, nor even spoken about in Meridian. Even still, Meridian is so bold as to plaster Hindi, Arabic and even Mandarin on the south wall of the MS building. Even on the entryway to the middle school building, languages not taught are displayed.

There’s a good group of students (I don’t interact with these people, but I hear them in the hallways) that are outright mean to other people. The bathrooms in the MS building constantly have some mysterious clear liquid plastered all over them, and I literally don’t know if it’s water or… something else. The sinks do not work, and some soap dispensers never seem to get replaced. I get it. It’s built in an old warehouse building. This is, architecturally, not a school. Even still, the cleanliness of the MS side is lacking in all aspects.

I generally reccomend really, really knowing what you’re signing up for when you apply anywhere, but ESPECIALLY here. Don’t be blindsided.

EDIT: Wow, the bird’s-eye of the main building looks like a starship.

I used to have a 3 star for this school but over the past months I’m starting to doubt this entire school. I don’t know if it’s just the school or the teachers but the schools getting bad but meridian began to make me start my depression and anxiety there (I’m legit not even joking anymore, everything was so bad I started to hate myself for everything I did during the school year). The teachers were okay but not all of the teachers treat the students as civil people and often just yell at them. The study hall is basically becoming trash. Like I came to study hall to wait for my mom after band (which my mom came like 1 min later) and the study hall teacher made me sign in and after signing in 2-3 more times, the school decided to charge me money for attending study hall when I just came there for about 2-3 mins. Then the school decides to raise up the price for study hall and waiters (for primary) next year and I don’t know what meridian’s history with their financial situation is but I think it’s getting way overboard. I used to love this school but over time, the school began to get worse each year by adding teachers who sometimes don’t even know what the word “teaching” means (not any 8th grade teachers, they know what they’re doing) and most of the year it’s basically substitutes trying to teach us because meridian can’t find a replacement. If I was the person in charge of meridian, I would actually think about what’s best for the school and what students enjoy about the school so we can try to improve the school. If this keeps continuing being the school I keep thinking that will go bad, I doubt meridian would be the best school next year or any years in the future. This is just my review, you can send your kids here if it feels like it’s what’s best for them but I’m just stating my problems with the school.