Highland Middle School 1700 Norris Place, Louisville, KY 40205

"Highland middle school is an interesting school. Everyone says the kids are bad, but I think all of the kids are great. There are NEVER any fights at highland! highland has no violence ever! Everyone gets along happily and everybody is friends and we all love eachother! Most definatley !!! The food is sooooo good I want to eat it for he rest of my life the teachers are so nice too! (This is all a lie)"

"Its an accepting school (in terms of the LGBT+ community considering I have never been bullied by anyone about it) and some of the teachers are great and funny, but everything else sucks. Awful education, too many bad students, and a principle who doesn't even care about the well being of his students. If you want your child to keep his or her sanity, you will not send them here."

"This school is just horrible. One thing there is gum everywhere! Us kids barely have any time to get to class. The whole looping thing, not a good idea! There is 4 teachers that i really hate and guess what i have to deal with them for the rest of middle school, that is if i continue to go to Highland. At lunch we only have 2 tables we can sit at, and you can only sit with the people in your class. I am really thinking about moving schools! Oh and i dont know any book smarts! They teach you streets smarts, but i guess they think thats best because of society today!"

"In my 3 years at Highland Middle School, I've definitely learned a lot; not nessesarily book smarts, but mostly street smarts. Since the teachers show little compassion and lack the ability to control misbehaving students, a lot of kids don't get the attention they need in the classroom. Therefore, the kids don't get the material and don't learn everything they're supposed to. However, at HMS did teach me about drug dogs, police, gangs, gun/bomb threats, and drug overdose facts!"

"This is the most unorganized and chaotic school I have ever been to. They recorded my daughter as absent for days she was in attendance, teachers never returned phone calls or emails and my daughter did not learn anything in the one year and two months she attended classes here. She even heard a teacher say to her class: "No matter what you do I still get my paycheck. Doesn't matter to me if you fail or succeed." WOW, that speaks volumes. From our experience at Highland, the staff just does not care about their students, as they have way too many to handle."