4411 51st Avenue SW
Seattle, WA 98116

Madison just cancelled its honors classes from 2020-21 onward (same as all the other middle schools in Seattle.) HCC still exists for the few who can test into it, but everyone else will be stuck with dumbed down general ed.

If you want your kids to come out believing that they are victims and to learn less STEM I highly recommend the Seattle School District. This isn't so much a negative review of Genessee Hill (which was average vs the district) as a review of the district, and really the state curriculum which the district has embraced. If you believe in a world of oppressors and oppressed send your kids. If you believe that your children are smart, capable, and have agency, go elsewhere! Children are encouraged to talk about and explore every traumatic or potentially traumatic event in their lives ad nauseum. If they are not traumatized after a year or two they should be apparently..There is no highly capable program because it's not fair to the smart kids to accelerate their learning. You have to drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator. Both our children tested into highcap and their scores at the end of the year went down, not up and not stable because who cares. The school recommended reading list includes a children's book about two gay turtles, and the premise of the book is that you should not care that they are gay. If we should not care, then why does the book exist? Why is there a very prominent Pride Day and events focused on gay pride, but no straight day? It's 2025. I'm tired of the special categories where being weird is celebrated and being normal is degraded by the school system.The after and before school programs are eggregiously expensive and school hours in general are not build around an average working parent's schedule. Early releases occur on Wednesday for example. I'm guessing the teacher's union pushed for that. It means you have to scramble to figure out something in the very middle of your work week. We moved to an outlying suburb and the school district is wooooorld's better. The entire school district seems to understand their own boundaries with parents in a way that the Seattle School District does not. The highly capable program is robust, with separat classes and teachers who care. An agency mentality is encouraged. Despite having fewer resources than Seattle, our new school district does a fantastic job in helping to raise our children to be smart and mentally tough!Look outside of the Seattle School District if you care about your children.

I feel very included at this school. I am interested in most classes, and they are engaging. I've made many friends, and I like most of the teachers that have taught me. The counselors are wonderful, and I feel safe there. :)