Pride Elementary School

Posted October 27, 2009

I have two children who have attended Pride, one of which just moved on to middle school. Overall I have been very pleased with Pride and it's development of it's students. We recently had a change in our Prinicipal. I have not been thoroughly impressed with the new Prinicpal but will allow more time to pass before making my full judgement of her abilities. I believe that the outgoing Principal did a wonderful job of laying the foundation for the new one and the teachers at Pride are some of the best. The majority have been there for several years and I think they take an honest interest in the children and have been very pleased with the individualization of the teaching of each child to suit their specific needs. This is a school with a very strong parental involvement which is why Pride continues to be a strong school.
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Posted June 25, 2009

Having two children, one who now is in middle school, I have seen a great deal of growth in the school. It's been 8 years now that I've been involved. In general, I believe that most of the teachers are highly motivated for the children to learn. Unfortunately as in all schools, I believe the FCAT/Hillsborough Writes does take up alot of the teachers time, that they would rather spent otherwise. I have one child who went through 6 years without any problems: however, my other child has always struggled. Since the 1st grade all his teachers have understood the issues at hand and have worked with me. There has been wonderful intervention strategies that have benefited my child greatly. This year will bring a new principal and I pray that we will be blessed with an educator/administrator who keeps our children always as a priority.
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Posted June 20, 2009

Pride is an excellant school for academics. It can't be beat in that department but the lack of regard towards families with younger siblings at home needs to be addressed. Each year the school has gotten worse about this. There is more and more 'family fun days' in the middle of the school days so not only are parents who have younger children not invited, but it also excludes those parents who have to work during the day. At last years' 'end of the year parties' the office was told to not allow anyone with young children in tow to check in. Some of the parents were planning on attending the parties because their child's teacher said they didn't mind if a sibling came but then was not allowed to check in or even go tell their child who was expecting them. Hopefully the new principal will turn things around.
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Posted May 23, 2009

Pride is one of the best, they work very hard to get your child to where they need to be academicaly, most ot he teachers go above and beyond for the children who need the little extra help. I am very proud and happy my children came over pinellas county to hillsborough county, Pride exspectations of learning are higher than Pinellas county. My children have excelled greatly thanks to Pride.
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