Benbrook Elementary School

"In benbrook elementary My past as little girl is worst everyone so against me . No one is in my side until I made one friend but it didn't last long anyway. Every teachers who would use a ruler to hit my hand a lot and other student used pin or some kind sharp similar like paperclip to poke my hand! It hurt really badly I couldn't able speak english really good not even one word until in 5th grade."

"This school is extremely disorganized. NO PARKING for parents, but parents of kindergarten and Pre-K students must come in and pick up from the classroom. There is no drop off zone for other kids. The unorganized manner of it all makes it take over 30 minutes to drop my son off and get back home in a car and I literally live around the corner and a few houses down from the school. If they would simply direct traffic to the parking lot so parents could drop kids off on school property and turn around to pull out (as in a circle) there would be less traffic congestion and an organized manner for drop off. Instead there is nothing and they deny parents access to the parking lot and prefer to have a police officer ticket you if you park on the side of the street and then try to turn around to go back the way you came. Shame on them. If you don't speak Spanish you will never know anything that is going on. The school seems to only print things in Spanish and only puts notifications on the board outside in Spanish. If you have any other option for school for your child then go that route. I have found the staff to be rude and again if you don't speak Spanish, they aren't very helpful. The school is EXTREMELY overcrowded. My son has the library for a classroom. It leaves me wondering, does his class constantly get interrupted by other classes coming to use the library OR is the rest of the school denied library time because there is a class occupying it for a classroom. Either situation is unacceptable. But this is HISD , I wish I would have checked before we moved here. I assumed we were still in in Spring Branch ISD. Oh and by the way,... NO Pre-K IF YOU SPEAK ENGLISH. SMH.. THIS SCHOOL IS ABSURD."

"I went to this school in the mid to late 70's and I have to say that some of my best childhood memories were made at this school. Shout out to Mrs. Eason, Coach Taylor, Mrs. Mack and Mrs. Ray. Before "White Flight" there was a great mix of students and I lost so many friends because of it. I will always be a Benbrook Bear and remember the times before any temp buildings in the front, covered stairs in the front or back or even the jungle gym in the front. I'm glad my two sisters and I went to this school."

"As new in the US i choosed to put my daughter to this school shes on pre-k and i see alot of change on her behaviors that make me feel so happy since i thought it'll be hard for her to get used to this she loves it she loves her teacher (Ms.Linn) and her new friends in class. Thank you for all the support and love that you give to my daughter :*"

"Does anyone here remember Mrs. Polhemus?? She was the principal. I was in 4th grade in Cecil Whiting's class. This guy was so lazy. He never taught us anything. He assigned a bunch of busy work, then made us grade our own papers. I ended up making straight A's of course because of this."