This is a wonderful school. The teachers and staff are very involved. The school also recently scored very highly in the Smarter Balance testing. Much better than the average Highline middle school.

This school is.. before I start I am not going to say that this is the best school your kid will ever go to and get the best charter school experience ever. But I will say and mention that this school has produced many amazing scholars. My friend, Isabel S. went to Rainier Prep and now goes to Lakeside Academy, and I now go to Villa Academy.{Note that we are both in the Rainier Scholars program} One thing I would like to point out here is that no matter where you go your child may go they will always meet bullies.What matters is how the school deals with it. Yes Rainier Prep is not perfect but its not terrible. If anything I got the best public education experience there.

After going to the school for 2 years and graduating from 8th grade I realized that this school was a good place to be. After you get over how bad the lunches are you start to realize that the teachers/staff really care about you and they want to shape you in to fight for whats right type of way (Mr.carey). And the amount of friends you make are amazing. The staff at Rainier prep treat you like family. When you get in to trouble the first thing they do I try to make sure that you will never do it again. I loved my school and as much I said bad things about rp the place made me who I am today.

Weve lasted one year before we started looking for other middle schools to switch to. The school is alright academically. I really believe they challenge kids, given by the amount of homework my son had every night. But they lack in other departments. Our issues started with their buses. They dont have enough buses or bus routes, the kids are dropped and picked up a 10-15 minute walk from home. Which didnt sit well with us, specially since our sons pick up and drop off location happened to be right infront of a 7/11 with daily drug deals happening publically in the open. For safety reasons, we had to switch our work schedules to facilitate his drop offs and pickups, after our numerous concerns with the school fell on deaf ears.My son took home lunches 99.9% of the time, but as a parent, I didnt like the fact that they infringed upon what I put in my childs lunch bag. A bag of chips? A cookie for desert? Oh, they had an issue. Never mind there was nothing remotely edible on their daily lunch menus, ever. We had an incident where theyve sent letters home apologizing for mistakenly serving the kids pork, again we took home lunches daily, so that didnt affect us but I can only imagine the poor students, about 90% of them being Muslim/Somalis..Their ridiculous menu and their strict rules on home lunches is probably to make up for the lack of not having a gym in the facility and having to shortcut PE into recess. We live in Washington State for Gods sake, it rains 9 months out of the year, your kid will be outside for recess and PE , wether its pouring, hailing or snowing. Ive literally watched the kids outside in below 30° weather huddled under trees....because the school cant keep them in their classes since it was being used by another class. Weve braved pneumonia and the common cold so often that it became part of our daily houseld routines. The teachers have this collective punishment system where if one kid misbehaves, the entire class suffers the consequences because according to them theyre a village. Im sorry but thats beyond ridiculous and teaches zero personal accountability.So there you have it, curriculum wise its ok, its just lacking in all other areas. Literally. My son lasted one school year and its proven to be the longest and the most frustrating. Were over the hype that is Rainer Prep, and has been 3 months into it, to be honest. We shouldve done our homework before we jumped the gun. Their high turn-over rates shouldve told us something. Im glad my son is starting 6th grade in a more productive environment that were all happy with.Hibi

Love this school! My children are doing great there.

This school is great because there is no fights