Mary Lou Hartman Elementary School

Posted: April 27, 2026

This school does not care about your child’s safety please be careful if your children cross that field across the street.Its not the schools problem if your child gets beat to a pulp right across the street from the school in front of teachers! Do not send your kids on field trips with this school!

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The school had a good and positive change since 2019 and the community came together even stronger.

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This school has changed for good. The new staff and administration have done an amazing work this last year. Mrs Rodríguez and their staff gave to Hartman a new life again

Posted: September 8, 2018

Muy mal no tratan bien a los niños

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Posted: August 20, 2016

they could careless that my twins are going to miss 1st day of kindergarten due to the office staff incopatance who in the right mind contacts you 2 days before school starts to notify you that they age dropping your kids from school because they just figured out they exceeded they're capacity for the program!

Posted: August 20, 2016

the staff at Hartman Elementary School calls on Friday at 5:30 pm the weekend before school starts to let me know that my twins are being dropped due to exceeding the capacity for the bilingual class mind you I've already attended Open House and dropped off school supplies or the fact that the idiots who handled the registration (Tammy) could've notified me sooner since I registered them on 1st day of enrollment 3 weeks prior so thanks to them my twins 1st day of Kinder is ruined !!

Posted: June 23, 2014

Lunch time at this school is AWFUL! I surprise my son, and show up randomly to eat lunch with him, and many, many, many times I have witnessed the children being yelled at for talking to their neighbor while eating. It's ridiculous! They expect the children to act like zombies, eat without any interaction with their friends, and what gets me the most is that they have to put their heads down when they are finished. They seriously weren't allowed to talk at all, and the sad part is that the kids who do still manage to try to talk (squeak) quietly get their recess taken away. Like that solves the problem. These kids need to talk, and get the silly's out so they can focus in class. Walking in the halls is also painful to watch for the younger kids ... They are expected to be in a 'perfectly' straight line when walking in the halls. My son was in first grade, FIRST GRADE. I'm very close to pulling him out to homeschool because of the lack of respect they show these young kids. The only reason I haven't is because my son had an amazing kindergarten teacher. We loved Mrs. Brown.

Posted: April 22, 2014

Let's face it - this school is for children who do not speak English. I absolutely detest Hartman for for some reason my daughter likes it. There are other, better schools such as Woodlake Elementary. I agree with what others are saying about the women who work in the office. They are horribly, especially the one who just sits in front of her computer and pretends that she doesn't know anything else. If possibly, do not send your child to this school. Maybe it's different if you speak the native language of the school. If not, it's going suck for you and your child.

Posted: August 24, 2013

There is no contol over the students in this school. The students use foul language and are mean to other students. Teachers dont care! The office staff are rude! The lunches are disgusting... So if you have a child attending here pack their lunch! The cafeteria is filthy too! My children went here for 18 months, we then moved only to find out that when they entered school at their new school in a different state that they were ridiculously behind in everything! Their new teachers wondered if the teachers at hartman actually taught anything at all!!! Terrible school all around!

Posted: August 20, 2013

If you are looking to move stay away from this school! Parents are treated like dirt, unless you are one of the few who can even figure out how to get involved. In the 3 years I have been at the school I have never seen one advertisement for PTO meeting. I have actively tried to get involved and have been given the cold shoulder on multiple occasions. Communication is non existent at all levels.

Posted: July 10, 2013

I went to this school I was there from 1st to 5th grade I am now a 10th grader. But at lunch at this school we weren't allowed to talk. We were expected to be in a perfect straight line when walking in the halls. Oh and my 3rd grade teacher made fun of me because I forgot a paper and had my classmates volunteer to make fun of me. I have to say I've never been happier since I passed 5th and left that school. My little sister went to this school and she only went for kinder..even she remembers not being able to talk at lunch

Posted: January 31, 2013

Hi Im a student at hartman and its awesome we have a new principal named Mr.Juarez he's alwys greeting people and how i know is because im in student council and hes always striving to help out so this is a great school now i luv this school!

Posted: May 17, 2012

This school is awful. My 6 year old was suspended for the day. 6 years old!! Not for bitig or something. He took a kids stickers. Awful behavior and I'm not excusing it. But suspension, really? Are all school like this nowadays where they give kinder kids in school suspension and suspend them off campus? The administration is rude and not courteous. The principal caled and have me no explanation andaskes me to come pick up my son. When I visit, I've seen teachers being ugly to kids. Bottom line there are too many kids I each teacher. My son will not be attending this school next year.

Posted: September 7, 2011

My children barely lasted 2 weeks in this school before I pulled them out. I witnessed so many ridiculous things regarding discipline it was not even funny. The teachers completely act different when they realized a parent is watching. I caught a few of them being incredibly mean to children for no real reason other than that they could. I agree with the other reviewer that says they expect the kids to act like robots and zombies. They are barely allowed to talk at lunch, my daughter got yelled at for quietly asking the girl next to her a question. if one child messes up, everyone gets in trouble. I will say that my child had one AMAZING teacher, and I really feel like the teachers were at least trying to do their best with what the administration expects of them, but the overall school environment is one of hostility towards the kids and parents and probably the joy of teaching is being sucked right out of those poor teachers. Run far away from this place. there are so many charter schools to choose from in San Antonio. I wish parents would send Judson ISD a message by pulling their kids out.