The Academy Charter Middle School 159 North Franklin Street, Hempstead, NY 11550

"This school is very lame, and very strict for no reason please do not go here"

"This place looks nice and professionally well built on the outside, however on the inside it feels almost like a juvenile detention center. Bids for kids is what I call it. Many of the students are extremely rude and some of them would even go so far as to try to put their hands on you. If you're a teacher working at this school, there's such a weight of depression and frustration that's felt from all of the craziness that goes on here, at some point in time you'll be looking for another job. It's almost like student bad behavior is rewarded with less repercussions due to the way the school is ran, especially when a teacher is involved. From a faculty perspective, the students are like rubber, you're like glue, and no matter what you say bounces off them and sticks to you. You've been warned."

"They try to leave my kid back because they said that she was not prepared for her grade and also my kid said one of her teachers cursed on the phone. They are also very disorganized and not clean and also very racist"

"Not that good. Teachers would rather Yell and discipline their students instead of teaching, Especially Mr.Tulloch and Mr.Edwards. Kids over there are rude and disrespectful and will go far enough to touch you. Kids are getting bullied and getting depressed of how much these kids are bullied. Getting called names and everything, and the teachers would watch instead of stopping it."

"Disorganized, they dont know how to handle situations properly and I'm very disappointed since the new principal got hired. He wants to be everyone's friend which lead him to be very unprofessional when managing. Good luck getting a proper meeting with him without him doing hand gestures that mean "hurry it up". Its quite rude and distracting when you are trying to have a conversation, it's not him that has compromises. Parents take their time to meet with him and all he does throughout is hand gestures to "hurry it up"."