Odessa Shannon Middle School

Posted: April 20, 2026

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Posted: April 20, 2026

This school isn't good. The students are horrible, and I am ready to leave. Over the course of three years, the school has been on the news multiple times. Last year, two students were fighting in the locker banks and one of those students decided to pepper the other student. The student walked. To school, so they felt more safe to carry it with them while walking home, but this student was carrying it on them during school, not in their locker, on them. They felt they needed pepper spray to feel safe and that's not okay. The security guards here can't do anything. Students that are mad sometimes hit or attack them and all they can do is take it. I get their adults and shouldn't hit kids, but the students here shouldn't be hitting them and getting away with it. Most of the time when they hit a security guard or disrespect a security guard in school suppression (ISS) and the ISS is only one day, maybe two, then those students are back in class, disrupting everyone. Overall, I've had a bad experience at this school.

Posted: December 30, 2025

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Posted: December 30, 2025

Odessa Shannon isn't all that great. I've seen a security guard been called for help by my friend for just a simple reason and he replied with a shake of the head and walked away. My friends well-being was hurt. However the sixth-grade counselor is great and most of the sixth-grade teachers make sure you get the job done. Recently, a sixth-grader was hurt, bad. He was injured by another sixth-grader that threw a large piece of metal at his skull. He was hospitalized immediately. I'm saying, if you're a student seeing this, and you have another better option, go for it. Don't go along with your friends. Just meet up and call dude. If you do go to Odessa, make the right choices.

Posted: January 29, 2020

Our experience has been very positive. The physical facilities definitely need a revamp, but everyone in the school is engaged, kind, and eager to help the kids get a good education. We transferred from a more highly-ranked school (according to GS), and our experience has been much better at Lee. Highly recommend.

Posted: January 29, 2020

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Posted: February 15, 2019

Posted: February 15, 2019

Posted: February 15, 2019

Posted: February 15, 2019

Posted: February 15, 2019

Posted: February 15, 2019

Very poor. The staff is unprofessional. The principal likes to over talk people and they do not answer questions. The school is dingy and dirty. The parking and drop off have no flow to them. Lack of planning and follow through. This place is a mess. Needs new staff.

Posted: January 5, 2016

it is a good school with good people. i don't like how others try to degrade our school and say its a bad school because of our test scores. as a student I think that we should look to the students rather than just a statistic. everyone always complains about how the american education system is bad enough anyway. there are people who try there hardest everyday including myself and it's not fair that our work goes unacknowledged. every school has there won problems that they can fix but other than that lee is just like any other middle school in MCPS.

Posted: January 5, 2016

everyone does there share at the school and i feel we shouldn't blame someone else's shortcomings on the whole school. we have been having tough times lately all the staff members treat the students at lee with enough respect, integrity, honesty, and fairness to all their students regardless of their race or background and it angers me greatly when ignorant people give our school a bad reputation just because the test scores aren't high it makes no sense to try and put PEOPLE in a certain category. we are all different and some people just don't realize that it is very hard to do well on something standardized that isn't proven to work well with others.i am positive that our school will be able to do better when we aren't constantly degraded by others

Posted: November 5, 2015

All the teachers inflate grades in this school and if a teacher doesn't, he/she will be targeted by the administration. There are kids who do not know how to add or subtract getting A's and B's because this is how the administration and the higher-ups have decided is the best way to make MCPS look like a great county- which is far from the truth. Lee's test scores are horrible but since all the kids are passing their classes (Not!!!) the administration can blame it on the kids being poor test-takers instead of the fact that these kids are just being passed along each year and their deficits are growing exponentially as they get socially promoted to the next grade. The teachers who have been at Lee for many years willingly inflate grades and basically do a disservice to the kids. These are the kids who will drop out of high school at 16 because they can't pass the HSA's. It is a school built on no integrity and a spineless commitment to masking the county's immoral grading expectations because I believe 90% of the county schools inflate grades.