Xavier F Cannella Elementary, Tampa | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Personally this school is very nice from the outside. I have no clue who designed the outside… ( no fair parking for parents/ Organization) Meaning the parking is awful at the school the one lane street that is in front of the school is so crazy in the mornings and in the afternoons … Poor residents that live around the surrounding school because THIS is so crazy …. there’s two places that you’re supposed to drop your child off with no signs outside specifically letting you know which areas your child to be dropped off at but I have heard from the faculty that they had a lot of problems with the parents just dropping kids off HUH?!?! I wonder why there’s no organization with the parking at all at the school ! ( spaghetti night I left because there was no sufficient parking and everyone ( parents and teachers ) was parked everywhere )A huge disappointment this year … Other than that the principals & teachers this far seem to be OK but we’ll see as this school year progresses! All schools should take consideration of parking arrangements that are more convenient for the faculty and for their students parents people have to go to work early in the morning this chaos can make someone wait I can hold people up! Just saying

I wouldn’t recommend coming to this school it’s like a prison and they cant talk face to face it has to be through email. I signed my daughter up to this school even though the ratings aren’t that good but I still thought it would be a great school and it was the first few months then we started seeing a change how we couldn’t have breakfast with our kids now parents can’t step foot on school grounds we just have to drop them off and pray they make it to class safe. We aren’t allowed in classrooms to talk to the teachers we now have just email them our issues or concerns!!? When did this become normal? To not get to know who the teachers are or how they treat the kids and to have no face to face meetings I understand they want to protect the school but us as parents also want to protect our children!

My kids have attended Cannella sense 2006 never had a complain, there are some wonderful teachers and I loved the communication. This year with the new principles Mr Hoff the school has made many changes, starting with breakfast and not allowing parents to go in and sit with there kids, now change in dismissal. Now parents can only communicate with their teachers through email. Parents are not allowed on campus. They are holding our kids that walk home an extra half hour, parents cannot park anywhere around the school in order to walk up and pick up our kids. It feels like a prison instead of a school. Would not recommend this school to any parent that likes to be involved in their kids school.