Mill Creek Elementary School

Posted: May 26, 2026

Where are the taxes going to? This school is awful. Dirty everywhere, bathrooms are gross!!! Education seems way below... Very sad no one seems to care or improve for the sake of our children.

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Posted: January 10, 2019

My son’s Kindergarten class size has ranged from 13 – 15 students so far this year. His teacher updates his “Daily Journal” daily. She also posts limited information about my son on Class Dojo (I.E. Points for “Following Direction”, “Helping other”, -Points “Being Bad”, etc). I wouldn’t mind more information about my son, but they have parent teacher conferences that usually cover that information. If parent teacher conferences turns out to not be enough, I only need to schedule an appointment to see the teacher.

My son likes his teacher and says she is good. My son reads Pre-K & K books with only a little bit of help on tough words. He can add and subtract any numbers 10 or less & he’s only halfway through the Kindergarten school year. He talks about his class’s science fair project and he tells me about community helpers. He also tells me other things he’s learned in school and it seems like he is learning some useful things.

I don’t know if his education is great, but he enjoys it. His teacher seems very knowledgeable if we ask her a question and it appears she cares for my son’s education.

Posted: January 10, 2019

Firstly, integrity, compassion, & respect should be taught at home and the school should provide opportunities to support the development of the values which should be instilled at home. If a person is expecting a school to instill the values of integrity, compassion, & respect in a child, it will never work.

That being said, I would like to see the school conduct more activities that would promote family involvement in school and in a child’s life. Basically, the school could offer classes to parents to teach them ways/give them ideas on how to instill various values in their children. Additionally, the school could explain what programs they currently have in place and how those programs could re-enforce the values parents would teach/set.

Posted: January 10, 2019

I’m not highly impressed with the leadership at Mill Creek Elementary school. I believe some of the issues in the school are self-inflicted and I believe some of the issues revolve around parents and culture.

Examples of both issues:

For the schools 1st orientation/open house (August timeframe), it was unorganized. We met in the cafeteria and briefings were giving. Instead of listening to the briefings, many people talked to other people while the briefings were being given. It was difficult to hear the speakers. It seemed that the administration lacked leadership & authority in that situation. When we left the cafeteria and went to the gym to meet the teachers, the personnel there didn’t know who my son’s teacher would be and they didn’t have a bus number for him. After 45 minutes, they determined my son would have a specific teacher. That teacher said the school supply list was wrong and we had to purchase additional items (notebooks and a few other items). School started and less than a week in, my son was moved to his current teacher. The extra items we bought were no longer needed. Buying the extra items didn’t break the bank for us, but I could see how someone on a very restrictive budget might have issues/get upset. My son also didn’t have bus transportation for over a week and we had to take him to school. Busing was technically a district caused problem not a Mill Creek Elementary caused problem; however, if someone doesn’t live next to the school, how do their children get there. Transportation was an inconvenience and not a major issue for us, but I could see it as an issue for other people.

I attended the Richland County School-Expo last month. I talked with many of the other Elementary Schools. A couple of the schools had a monthly reading night, a science night, or a monthly math night. I would like to see something like that at Mill Creek Elementary. Sadly, I don’t think the school would have enough participants to support something like that. Mill Creek had a “Night of Reading” this year which focused on helping parents help their children with reading. When we went, I expected a much larger turnout. The material taught was good, but there were very few parents there. I really enjoyed that night and would like something like that to occur once a month, but I don’t think the school would have the turnout.

Posted: January 10, 2019

I’m not sure what “learning differences” mean.

I know that there are a couple styles of teaching that my son’s kindergarten teacher uses. She uses verbal, visual, & hands-on techniques. Excluding people with mental disabilities, one or more of those styles usually works well with children.

Posted: January 10, 2019

My son is only in kindergarten. He is of mixed race and not of the majority race of Mill Creek students. He is not singled out and picked on in class. There might be one child in his class that picks on a few people. My son and another student have mentioned his name.

My son did laugh and another child once and the teacher verbally corrected him. She told me about the incident. He hasn’t laughed or made fun of anyone since.

Posted: January 10, 2019

Currently, I have mixed opinion of Mill Creek Elementary. I’ve talked with other schools in the area to see what they have to offer and how they conduct business. Mill Creek doesn’t have as many programs as some schools, but they also have more/better programs that lesser schools don’t have.

Con: At the beginning of the school year, there was some disorganization administration wise. They didn’t put their best foot forward for the first orientation. The lack of organization may have been a fluke, but if other orientations/meetings are as disorganized as the first one, a self-evaluation needs to be conducted because some internal processes are broken.

Pro: Mill Creek Elementary seems to have some good incentives for the children to learn. They had a great “Night of Reading” a few months ago where the school taught parents ways of helping their children read. It was very good for parents and they had pizza for the children afterwards. I expected a bigger turnout from parents, but I thought the program was great. I would like to see something like that offered once a month.

The school has various reading charts they give out that offer rewards such as free pizza or free USC basketball tickets if a certain number of books are read in a certain time period.

They have a treasure box in my son’s class where if you help students or do very good on assignments you get points. Once you get a certain amount of points you can get something from the box. You can also lose points for being bad. It is a very good reward and punishment system to help build character for a child that age.


It would be nice to have the school teach a life skills/parenting class for parents of students. That would most likely be too controversial though.

Posted: January 10, 2019

My son is in Kindergarten. He is given one packet of homework (usually four pages in length) and told to have the packet turned in by the end of the week. It is great that they are trying to instill the habit of completing homework that early. Growing up, I don’t remember having homework in Kindergarten. The only thing, I wish that they gave a few more pages of homework. I could space the homework out to one page a day, but he usually completes the whole packet within 10 minutes or so.


To supplement what he’s learned, I give him additional assignments throughout the week from two giant books (Pre-K/K & 1st Grade book) I bought from Ollies for about $10 each.

Posted: September 21, 2018

This school does NOT teach integrity, compassion or respect

Posted: September 21, 2018

The school is NOT military friendly and do not understand how to deal with military issues

Posted: September 21, 2018

Posted: September 21, 2018

The school officials do not care about students being bullied and the school officials bully parents

Posted: September 21, 2018

If I could give this school a negative number, I would. I regret enrolling my children. If I could homeschool my children or enroll them into a different school, I would, in a heartbeat!

Posted: September 21, 2018

A few of the teachers misplace finished homework and/or give credit to the wrong students

Posted: September 21, 2018

Posted: August 11, 2018

Mr. Glover is over worked. He is the solution to too many initiatives.

Posted: August 11, 2018

Dr. SlAughter is at the morning car drop off, the rest of the time I've seen him he is reading his books.

Posted: August 11, 2018

Will pull a child for math class to receive help in reading with out additional time given to the class they were pulled from. I know this is against the law.

Posted: August 11, 2018

Bullies roam the hall because teachers out then out of class and the administration turns their head, and continues to read his books.

Posted: August 11, 2018

There are a few great teachers there. They are over worked and have large classes because parents want their children in those classes. Overall dismal experience child lost ground while we attended this poorly performing school.

Posted: August 11, 2018

Random packets of worksheets, just busy work. Nothing to reinforce learning.

Posted: May 26, 2018

I didn't enjoy it. My kindergarten child had a hard time this year and the class had almost 30 students at the beginning of the year. A new teacher didn't get hired until after Christmas...so the beginning of the year was chaotic with 2 kindergarten teachers.

Posted: May 26, 2018

Random packets to complete weekly not sure how this helps progress.

Posted: May 26, 2018

Some teachers are very supportive and the rest only contact parents when parents contact them first.

Posted: May 26, 2018

The principal is active daily on car rider morning duty. Not very vocal during other times in the school year.

Posted: May 26, 2018

They frequently give random assessments to kindergarten students and one specific kindergarten teacher only contact s parents of students who contact her first.

Posted: May 26, 2018

They are not proactive in prohibit ing bullying.

Posted: November 1, 2014

My child has gone here for 4 years. This is probably the worst year yet. Lacks communication with parents. The excuse is because some parents aren't responsive. Some teachers never respond even in agenda book. No homework is really given to allow kids to practice what they are learning. The reason I got is because some kids don't turn it in so they don't want the bad grades to affect the grade average. Some teachers post weekly subject and study material on the school site but that is rare. The excuse i got is because of all the testing they do. They send home study guides two days before tests instead of Friday, so kids can get a bit of studying in on the weekend. Some teachers will not post grades until right before report cards go out. They don't inform you when your child receives negative grades. Even when your up there all the time. The principal doesn't seem to take in your concerns. I asked that the tutoring work be sent home for homework. He told me to give him a couple days to start the process going. Nothing ever happened. I ended up buying workbooks and now I'm winging it through the school year. I can't stand this school. There is no organization. Last year.

Posted: August 15, 2014

My daughter went to Mill Creek last year for perk. I am highly disappointed in this school. Unfortunately my daughter will be there for half the year of kindergarten until we move. I feel the school lacks any organization or idea of what is going on. They do not keep parents well informed as to what is going on and how the kids are doing. There are a small handful of teachers that are just amazing and care about what the children are learning and not just constantly yelling at the children. I am looking forward to getting my child out of this school to somewhere she can actually get a good education.