Lakewood Elementary School

Posted: January 28, 2025

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There are MUCH BETTER schools to consider than enrolling your child in Lakewood. The principal does not communicate imperative information to the parents, misleads you with inaccurate information, and accepts ZERO accountability, the front office staff members are rude and lose paperwork, and it’s a very clique based community from the school involvement to the neighborhood, sadly!

Posted: January 28, 2025

Posted: October 16, 2024

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Posted: October 16, 2024

Poor communication and lack of accountability & integrity from the principal (Thompson). The staff from teachers, to administration, and principals fail to comply with the obligated education codes of conduct. My child will NOT be attending another year!!

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Posted: September 17, 2024

amazing great school my children love it so much!!!!

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Posted: February 23, 2023

Both of my sons attended Lakewood Elementary. The teachers and community are supportive, and the academics are rigorous. The outdoor area (LOLA) is awesome for those of us who love being outside- it's a little trail system on the grounds of the school and was always my kids' favorite part of it.

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Posted: February 21, 2023

Lack of communication, Lack of follow through, and Lack of professionalism all from the principal, Thompson.

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Posted: January 6, 2021

My daughter has attended Lakewood since kindergarten, unfortunately because of our work schedules and Lakewood’s School options at the start of the school we moved her in with my in-laws in Flower Mound temporarily.
We enrolled her back to Lakewood which we loved because of the teachers and parents early December. After several calls, emails and checking on status we finally get a call from principal and she says that she can’t come back. That she can go to another school.

Trying to understand Covid situation and safety we were open to exploring other school options that Administration told us they could offer. They were supposed to call us back and did not, so after almost a month of no action we dropped her off at Lakewood as that is the school she is zoned for and remind you has gone since kindergarten and TEA code states she has a right to attend. Instead of enrolling her or offering a solution the principal puts her in the library for hours, doesn’t let us come pick her until she calls the police and says that she will turn us in for child endangerment if we bring her back. Child endangerment for dropping her off to the school she should attend?
Isn’t school supposed to be a safe place? I mean specially Lakewood, reason why we chose to move to the area 15 years ago.

My daughter just wants to go back to school with her friends.

Were they say....

“At Lakewood Elementary, we are a community of leaders, valued individuals and problem solvers, who advocate for all. “

Well apparently, they do not advocate for all.

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Posted: September 20, 2017

The school is a good school but the administration people loose paperwork all the time this is my kids 2nd year at Lakewood and last year paperwork was lost and again this year I don't know what is going on in the office but I wish they would get it together or hire new people and they have attitudes with you for calling them out on it.

Posted: September 20, 2017

Posted: October 26, 2015

UPDATING MY REVIEW OF 10/1/14 FROM 3 TO 5 STARS: As anticipated, the new principal is an excellent addition to our school. Lakewood was rated the top elementary school in DISD as well as had 6 of the top 100 distinguished teachers under their Teacher Excellence Initiative. There is a positive energy in the school. You can feel good about sending your child to Lakewood and subsequent schools in DISD. Great things are happening here!

Posted: July 31, 2015

Just rated 37th out of over 4,100 elementary schools in Texas, beating one of the Highland Park elementaries. Extraordinarily close-knit community is like a small town in the big city (10 minutes from Downtown Dallas). Generations of the same families have attended this school (newcomers are welcome) and most make lifelong friends here, going all the way through Long and Woodrow (now IB schools).

Posted: May 6, 2015

We left Lakewood this year due to much of what other commenters have already mentioned. Lakewood is an adequate school, but not excellent. The neighborhood support is fantastic, yet teacher morale is marginal and the structure itself is a mess. To be fair, many of Lakewood's issues originate at DISD.

Posted: January 3, 2015

Funny, after reading the most recent reviews, I could not describe Lakewood any differently. I went there as a kid in the 1960s, and the comments fit perfectly. Yes, there are a lot of students, and the faculty vary from friendly to strict, perhaps a couple over the top in terms of knowing how to deal with students who have special needs, but all of the programs still seem in tact. Try attending schools that don't have those programs. Art, music, and the parental involvement still seem in tact. Money had nothing to do with the kind of students/families attended this school. I would think all parents research a school before choosing where to send their child. Poor, rich, hispanic, white were the matrix of our fun group then. It was the only school that really had an idea of friendship and interest in development. You won't get that by the teachers continually holding the students' hand to get them through, but if any school I attended from which I learned when I was a kid, it was, truly, Lakewood Elementary.

Posted: January 2, 2015

I was thinking of sending my child to Lakewood Elementary school. after reading all the comments, I decided that it will be a great choice. That's awesome!!!

Posted: September 24, 2014

Can you imagine a 5th grade teacher not only bullying a student, but humiliating him in front of his classmates? This is what my grand child endured in a classroom at Lakewood. Beware if your child doesn't fit the mold they are in danger!!!!

Posted: September 16, 2014

We had an an abysmal experience at Lakewood. My son was a new student in 2nd grade with no behavior problems at all. We met privately with his teacher to explain that we felt he had a learning disorder and were in the process of having him tested. Despite this, she would berate him loudly in class for missing an instruction or not knowing something that she thought he should know. Then she got in the habit of saying to the class (in a sarcastic tone of voice), "Could somebody please help E---?" I wrote a tactful letter to her respectfully asking her not to say that to the class. So instead, the next time another student tried to help my son (even though he didn't ask for help), she said, "E---'s mom says he doesn't need any help." I tried to talk to her in person before school and she refused to speak to me--literally turned her back to me as I was talking and told me to go to the office. I pulled my son out of that school that day. When we went to collect his things from the classroom, she did not even acknowledge my son or say goodbye! FOR SHAME! Hardly the conduct of a professional educator! The principal wasn't much better. We lasted 4 weeks and they were 4 weeks of misery.

Posted: May 9, 2014

Lakewood is a good school in a great neighborhood. Lkd enjoys an excellent community and parent support visible and effective PTA, Dad s group, fundraisers and volunteering. The teaching could be stronger based on the schools population (in my experience 25% are excellent and 10% are terrible) as an educator myself (with realistic expectations ) that is good. Your child WILL be well socialized at Lakewood (once again this is neighborhood effect) they will learn here. The DISDs nationally recognized TAG schools (without caps) could be filled the top half of each Lakewood grade (that should tell you all you need to know). This school is NOT good at is making parents feel like their child is exceptional (this is not their bread and butter as it is in private schools) or a political expectation (as it is in highland park). If the school was 25% less crowed and had 50% more space it would the one of the best public schools in the country- but all in all good to great school buoyed by great neighborhood.

Posted: May 3, 2014

Lakewood is overcrowded and disorganized. The administration was incompetent in the way it handled the leveling this year. My sons teacher is nice but has way too many children. I wasn't told about significant things that happened to my son until weeks later at the parent teacher conference. This school is not equipped to identify and help children who are above or below the average. The only reason lakewood scores better than the rest of Dallas is they have a much lower amount of ESL and economically disadvantaged students. The school boundaries have been gerrymandered to keep test scores up so the property values stay up. My son received a much better education at another DISD school last year. The only reason you should send your child to Lakewood is if you want to display their bumper sticker on your Lexus

Posted: January 14, 2014

We are in our last year at Lakewood, thank heavens. The classes and the school are ridiculously over crowded with kids who live nowhere near the school. Because it is overcrowded, the lunches and recesses are very, very short. Everything at this school is about the test! Terrible arts program. The teachers never seem happy anymore. The new principal is overwhelmed. My children do very well, but they were doing well at their last school too. When we moved to the neighborhood we thought we were getting a warm and friendly school, but they just want your money. It's really nothing special compared to schools in surrounding districts.

Posted: September 12, 2013

I absolutely love this school. The teachers are terrific and caring and responsive. I see some comments about the previous principal Ms Thompson - who I agree was less than delightful to deal with. She has, however, been replaced with Ms Brookshire-Simmons who is lovely and much more interested in individual students' needs. The class sizes are quite large - which is no surprise because the school is great and basically everyone in the neighborhood sends their kids to the school rather than private school. However, funds are currently being raised to build new buildings and double the square footage within the next 2 years. So the crowding problems should be resolved very shortly. It's a great neighborhood and wonderful that so many families in the community support the local schools and believe in them enough to see past the DISD reputation and attend our fantastic public school. I couldn't be happier with our experience.

Posted: May 15, 2013

Lakewood Elementary has a caring community and high level of parent involvement . I do think there is a lot of emphasis on testing and grades. There is a lot of homework right from the early years and worksheet based curriculum. I wish the kids had a longer recess (15 mins to eat and 15 mins of play) and I am not happy if any member disrupts the class, this break can be taken away (and has many times) thereby punishing all the children. They need a chance to let off steam at lunch as the environment is very disciplined. Having said all that my child likes going to school for the most part and is proud of her school.

Posted: January 6, 2013

My son lost interest in science and math while at Lakewood. Although we moved to another school because of career, I'm glad we did. He has the spark back about learning and says he LOVES math and science again. I don't think I would've realized it was due to the school until we moved. The school is very regimented and not very creative as far as teaching goes. They do a lot of worksheets at Lakewood and move quickly. When he started at his new school they were a couple of months behind where Lakewood was but the telling part was that he did not remember how to do the lessons that he had already mastered at lakewood. I prefer that they move slower but actually learn and not just memorize the topics. The parental involvement is amazing and I think this makes up for a lot but the curriculum coud be much improved.

Posted: March 26, 2012

Our 2 daughters have received an excellent education at Lakewood Elementary. They both love going to school and score at high grade levels on the testing. The parental involvement is wonderful. I feel like the girls are getting the same education as they would receive in a private school, more importantly they have made great friends and love going to school. Ms. Thompson can be a little harsh, but I think she has to be to maintain control of an at-capacity elementary school.