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Voyager Academy Middle School
101 Hock Parc Ln, Durham, NC 27704, United States
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Ru
Review №1

John on his moms account. School is good. Easy to learn here. Since its small its easy to make friends or enemies. If you are coming here be prepared for lots of projects and homework. Mr Credle was pretty buff and was hard to guard without getting smacked during Ultimate Frisbee.

Lo
Review №2

Quality 9 years of my life so far spent here its like a second home and you learn a lot here. Amazing teachers and people too.

El
Review №3

Amazing staff, students, and a great environment. Voyager has been like my second home since kindergarten.

Ma
Review №4

Nice turf fields for soccer, lacrosse, etc that are also used by NCFC youth programs. New and very nice. No shade in sight though. Small stadium bench seating area as well.

Mi
Review №5

This school is awesome! Voyager has lots of prominent teachers and their middle school is SUPER academically strong. The teachers are super nice and do a great job with teaching. Plus, there is practically zero bullying. I give this school a 10/10 rating because the teaching is superb and the atmosphere to work in is amazing!

Na
Review №6

I love this place! The pizza is good and the games are fun and I love the mouse mascot! Anyone who’s looking for a good time should come to Chuck E. Cheese!

It
Review №7

I freaking love this love this school as a non active feminist. Some people said there was sexual harassment/assault. And this school is amazing although they did not teach cursive. I still think this a great school for education. Its perfect for all kids. Thank you for your time.

Ab
Review №8

This is a good school. I love the environment and the teachers.

ka
Review №9

They were guests at a basketball game at my school recently and I was appalled at some of the behavior I witnessed. While I have no knowledge of them academically, every time I have competed against them in athletics or viewed a game, I have found a too common lack of sportsmanship. I think its also worth knowing that the cheerleading squad, comprised of completely young women, did NOT cheer for their female classmates during the game, only the male team. As a middle school student myself I found it to be a appalling message being sent to the girls team.

Ph
Review №10

Great school. could use some improvement though. Like the teachers would send your child hear for elemtrey and middle school.

Za
Review №11

If you actually value education and are willing to see that no school is perfect then Voyager is a very good school. I am currently in the 10th grade are the high school, and while people say that it has gone down hill in past years, they are just unwilling to accept change. The cliques that everyone speaks of, guess what, EVERY school that has and will ever exist has cliques. This school has provided a great base for me, since I accept that other schools are just like this. Moving on to class size, our school has around 400 students total. This small number of students allows students to get lots of time with Teachers. While only having around 100 students per grade may seem bad, since if you dont like anybody then you are alone. However, the small size of my grade has allowed me to become friends with people that I never would have talked to at a average size high school.Yes, the recent shift of teacher is a problem, one that is majority caused by students being non respectful to teachers. In every class that I have, you can look around and you will see around six students on their phone, no listening to the teacher and then after class they complain that the teachers never teach them anything.During lunch there are six class rooms open, students have the option of going outside to eat at the picnic tables, which the school has around eight of. Yes, some students, choose by themselves to eat in the hallways, you are not forced to, dont like sitting down in the hall? Stand up.Just finished AP exams (AP Human Geo), while I agree it sucks to have to wait to take AP exams months after you take class. This said, the school does not choose when to give AP exams, College Board does, and this applies to the entire nation, not just this school.If you think that other schools will be a better fit for you, then please stop complaining about the school and switch to another school. There is a wait list for this school, which some call Terrible that is around 2000 people long.With regards to the teachers atrium, almost all of the items in there were donated or bought by the amazing teachers at voyager.

Ma
Review №12

I go to this school and I love it its amazing and theres no bullying the teachers really explain the work and are amazing if you dont get something they work with you and make sure you understand it I rate this school a five out of five

Za
Review №13

It was a great school my freshman year.But every year Ive been here they change the rules and they dont have enough places for all the students to eat lunch so the eat some of us have to eat on the floor.

Ab
Review №14

I LOVE education, but hate school - heres why: I transferred to Voyager in 7th Grade, and my first year was alright. The staff and faculty were fantastic that year! The students, however, sucked. They were mean, clique-y, and disrespectful (still are 4 years later). The majority of my class (class of 2019) have been at Voyager together since the 4th grade, so coming in as a new student later really sucked.Since 2013, Voyager has RAPIDLY gone down hill. Carl Forsyth left and we gained a new managing director. She has multiple kids herself, who attended Voyager for the first two years of her stay, and then left because they didnt like it. She now manages the school from Florida. FLORIDA! Our managing director doesnt even live in the state, which kind of explains the condition of the school.Now on to the High School: 2015-16 year was alright... some of the staff was terrible, but it was a fairly balanced ratio of good-to-bad. However, the conditions for students are dreadful... All rooms are closed off to students during lunch, leaving us to sit on the floor in the hallways. The school also has no money. All funds are funneled into the athletics program. The walls are paper thin, classroom supplies are lacking (many teachers purchase their own supplies), there are not enough textbooks for the student, and we do not have access to a printer. They do, however, have a lovely atrium for the teachers - set with all the unnecessary things you could imagine. There is a multi-thousand dollar massage chair, desks, a flat screen, coffee machines, couches, catered lunches, etc. (while students eat on the floor & dip into family funds for basic schools supplies). How odd that it would be a good size for a cafeteria...At the end of the 2015-16 school year, Cory Draughan announced his retirement as HS principal. This was when another wave of disaster struck.MANY teachers left when Mr. Draughan announced his departure. A new principal, VP, and counselor were hired and the school went to trash. The P, VP, and counselor seem like qualified, wonderful people, but they are closed to any new ideas (better ideas) and are very rigid in their ways (which are clearly not working). They switched to block-schedule for the 2016-17 school year, and dont seem to be willing to budge on that decision (despite teachers saying how bad it is for the classes and students, and threatening to leave if the system isnt fixed). For example, I took an AP class in the fall of 2016. That class ended in December, and yet I have the AP Final Exam next week... but I havent been in that class for a whole semester! It would work if the AP exams could be moved to be at the end of the semester the class was taken. I am watching my peers panic as AP Finals approach and they have to learn material that couldnt be covered in the short amount of time the semester allowed and retrieve all the material from 6 months ago! I have never been so stressed, and dont believe my peers have been either.When I voiced my concern for the AP classes and their problems, and suggested solutions to the problem that still abided by their wish to keep block schedule, I was rudely shut-down and sent away. They wouldnt even listen to my ideas (because Im a kid). (Note: I am the top of my graduating class, straight As. Im dependable and well-liked, but was sent off without being allowed to talk because Im 16... ?). Administration just doesnt seem to know what theyre doing, or are completely blind to what is happening to the students, or is maybe just corrupt.After 1st semester, A LOT of teachers quit. A concerning-ly large amount. If that doesnt say something, I dont know what does.If you get in, do yourself a favor and go ANYWHERE else. Seriously, this may be the worst high school ever, simply because I feel like Im being robbed of my high school experience & a quality education. It is very common for students at Voyager to say how terrible it is, and theyre not wrong! Im sure they are trying their best, but it seems that too many problems are being ignored!

Jo
Review №15

Its a school

Ke
Review №16

I hate it here! the lottery system is terrible. if someone wants to come into the school you let them dont say you cant come in bc we didnt pick your number! the teachers are terrible! very disappointed! rate: 10/10 would come again

Sa
Review №17

This is the most true 3-star review I will probably ever give in my life. I am currently at Sophomore at NC State in Raleigh, and I was part of the first major graduating class at VAHS. I began attending Voyager in the middle of 7th grade as a transfer student from Brogden (BMS), up the road a bit.Voyager was the cream of the crop around the time I arrived. I knew a lot of people there already, as it seemed Little River funneled into Voyager to a certain extent. When I first arrived, I really was very impressed by the personnel who were extremely accommodating. To make a long story short, the experience was much better than Brogden and I was definitely glad I attended.Over the course of the next four years though, I saw the school start to take its form, moving away from what had previously been similar to gelatin solidifying. We gained administrators, we gained staff, we gained students, and before you know it; Voyager is a real High School making a serious name for itself. I participated in a lot, Varsity Baseball my freshman year; Varsity Tennis my Sophomore year; The King & I my Junior year, as well as Grease my Senior year.Voyager provided opportunities for students to gain experience in Arts as well as Sports. While this was great and all, there were no directly applicable experiences for my résumé and there certainly wasnt much emphasis on students gaining real-world experiences apart from Voyager. Now I dont expect a school to tell me to gain real-world experiences, but Voyager couldve done much more to ensure the students were aware how Professionalism is incredibly important post-High School.The class structure is great, though, because of the small class size. Instructors are able to have a decent amount of one-on-one time with students who really need it. The drawback to this has seemed to be that an uncanny amount of students need extra help, and I never could tell if it was out of ignorance or apathy to their school work. The instructors that I had were solid, but Ive recently heard about a lot of uprooting that has happened since the face-lift the Board of Directors went through.Carl Forsythe had to be the most effective Managing Director possible, and I knew that after his favorite class graduated, it would be hard for Voyager to find someone to replace a man with such influence as him. Despite this, Voyager seemed to find the most sub-par Managing Director possible, or so Ive heard from many reliable sources. Given that Charter Schools are heavily influenced by a Board of Directors and a Managing Director, this is not something that they needed. Many of the instructors have since departed or been asked to leave (disguised as voluntary resignations), to many of the students dismay.Voyager was once a place that had potential to be a consistently wonderful learning environment, but since the face-lift, that has completely took a 180 in the opposite direction:-- The student lot now has gates to ensure, well, I dont really know what they do. They freak people out, thats what they do.-- Students also have assigned parking spots, but because of the gates, students who dont arrive within a certain time period risk getting ticketed because they arent in the correct spot.-- Seniors are no longer exempt from their finals, putting completely unnecessary extra stress on those who are going out into the world.-- The Website? It has been redone several times, and currently the pictures on there arent even Voyagers students.In review, Voyager was once a place of Jubilee. Voyager is now the home to an active oligarchy creating dismay among the entire student body, which also creates for agitated parents and families. Voyager needs to do something about this, or morale among the students will continue to decrease.-- Sam

Br
Review №18

This place might be the ninth circle of hell.

jo
Review №19

2 more years then im dipping

Sk
Review №20

2 more years left then I’m dipping

Co
Review №21

Some of the students have the hookup on dank kush.

Ja
Review №22

Something has to be done about this nightmare car line.

Ky
Review №23

BEST SCHOOL YET

Mi
Review №24

Just saying, the Voyager Logo has put on a bit of weight than when I last saw it.

Pa
Review №25

I wish I still had time with my teachers there

Te
Review №26

What abbie said is a lie

Ky
Review №27

Join the fishing team

Du
Review №28

Its aight

An
Review №29

I can sue them

Mi
Review №30

Voyager is Epic.

Ja
Review №31

Yes

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  • Address:101 Hock Parc Ln, Durham, NC 27704, United States
  • Site:https://www.voyageracademy.net/
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