International Leadership of Texas, Keller-Saginaw High School 10537 U.S. 287, Fort Worth, TX 76131

"Honest review from a former student. I started ILT at the very first branch in Garland Texas as a 5th grader, I graduated as a senior in December 2020. ILT yes has as a great mission but the delivery of that mission is very poor specifically in the keller high school branch. When i was a student I was so "lucky" to have Valerie Laine as my Principal. If I could rate her from a scale of 1-10 a 1 wouldn't even do justice defining how terrible she was in the position she held. She acted very immature and was a hypocrite. As a Principal you should set examples and lead the way of how you want your students and staff to behave, when those rules are set it is your job to demonstrate them NOT exclude yourself from it. Valerie Laine is a terrible leader and lacked the qualities needed for a good Principal. There are countless examples that I could personally name of her behaving in an ill fashioned manner. Since leaving ILT I have attained two associate degrees and currently working on my Bachelors while on the Pre-Med Path. I would advise you to send your kids to a different school, the implementation of learning multiple languages is awesome and incredibly beneficial, but there are many other ways and programs that will aide your kids to become trilingual. A word is enough for the wise."

"Honest Review from a former teacher: I was a science teacher at this school for 5 years. I was part of the first group of teachers that opened the school in 17-18. This school started out much better. It was a smaller campus and it tried to actually uphold the rhetoric it promotes so heavily. But as the years passed, it became increasingly more business like. The real turn occurred a couple years ago when a new principal came, Valerie Layne. Ms Layne never taught high school before and was extremely disappointing in her leadership at the school. She set a precedent of treating students like they were criminals and seemed to genuinely dislike teachers and teenagers and was absolutely loathed by nearly every staff member and student at the institution. She has since been promoted to district, if that gives you insight into ILTs priorities. Students are viewed as statistics and test scores at ILT now. There is very little emphasis on relationships with students and trying to help them understand the material or help them grow as adults. There are good teachers at ILT keller, but they struggle to make an impact held down by a poorly trained administrative staff, an incompetent district filled with consultants and business figures, and a very low morale where students are treated as though they are housed in a corrections facility. It’s unfortunate how poorly the school slid, but I’m hopeful with a turnover of the administration, especially the absence of the disastrous principal Layne, that the school will improve but as of 2022, it’s not a place I would send my children."

"If you are considering sending your kids here don’t, there is no highschool experience and you are not taught responsibility, I am an alumni of this school, I went to this school from 6th all the way through senior year. Most events were poorly planned. I will say most of the teachers were amazing, some were worse than others, but the teachers definitely deserve to work at a better school with a better administration."

"I’ve been teaching Chinese here for over 6 years and I know the some of the kids who left comments here, and I understand why no matter it’s negative or positive. There is no perfect school nor person. But from what I see over the years, teachers care about students and the Tarant county superintendent and once the principal in high school is a truly servant leader, and from whom I learned to respect and support my students. I would consider to send my son to Iltexas because the Spanish bilingual curriculum as well as Chinese language as part of its mission."

"I mean it was an okay experience, the school wasn’t the best but it also isn’t bad. I am a freshman now and I can say that they really need to work on the severity of their punishments because I don’t think it’s fair to give someone after school detention all because they forgot ONE thing from their uniform ONE time. The teachers are mostly good and nice but sometimes the teachers are a hit or miss. Like why on Earth would you hire a retired Human Geo teacher to teach Biology horribly? And for mass majority of the 1st semester we had a sub and we are really, really far behind compared to other classes, same thing with the Algebra 2 teacher. Gotta say that JROTC is really one of the enticing things about the school, because it teaches leadership and other things. I am having an amazing time right now with the instructors learning to be on the marksmanship team. Some of the rules are kind of dumb but I see why it is there bc there are some insane students out there that have made the rule a reality. The amount of homework in the school is medium compared to public and private schools I have been to. Not to be that person but the amount of homework could be worse. The school lunch is eeehhh……. Also language teachers are also hit or miss, I am lucky right now to have two amazing Spanish and Chinese teachers now in highschool. (I think it is dumb that they allowed girls to wear khaki pants in middle school but only gray pants in highschool but the boys can wear khaki pants)"