Southwest Elementary School 2650 Southwest Avenue, Lakeland, FL 33803

"My daughters love it here. All the staff truly care about my children."

"I had the best time at this school and I wish I could still be here and I love Mrs.Longstreet Mrs.Mathewson and Mr.smith since he passed away and Mrs Smith"

"I miss this school. I miss my third grade teacher Ms. Mayes (at the time) I know she got married and her last name changed. I wish I could thank her. But my favorite teacher of all my school years of my life, is Ms. Zipprer. I was in her first year of teaching. She was my fifth grade teacher and she was so tall and cool. Me and a kid named Tre were like the clowns in the class and she would always pick at us, in a fun way. I wish I could thank her as well. If you read this, thanks very much."

"This school has some outstanding teachers and a fantastic principal, as well as a stellar ESE program. From the above reviewer, her response regarding test scores is absolutely false! You cannot blame a teacher, or a school for having to worry about test scores when they are doing their assigned job from the school board.....Get mad at them, not the school!"

"My child was treated unfairly. My child's teacher's (my child was switched twice) was unfair. My child was not taught properly. I got in trouble for trying to get the information I needed for my child to succeed. The teacher yelled at me. I reported her and not much happened. A teacher should not act like that. The next teacher expected my child to know things I did not know my child needed to know because the previous teacher would not tell me. I took my child out of this school at the end of the semester due to the unfairness. My child has missed a lot of school due to being treated unfairly from this school. To the point where it is messing up their attendance even for being sick. Plus since being in another school I see just how much work this school puts on their kids. The work is beyond hard for them. The teacher did tell me he was doing 3rd grade work in 2nd grade to help with test scores. They are shoving school work down their throats. He likes the school he is in now so much more. This school says they are a good school and they care but they do not. They only care about test scores. I do not recommend this school at all. The only teacher I like in this school the 3 years my child went was the 1st grade teacher. and that was because she knew how to communicate."