Eastern Lebanon County Senior High School
- Public
- MYERSTOWN, PA
Public School
Eastern Lebanon County Senior High School
- grade B minusOverall Grade
- Public
- 9-12
- MYERSTOWN, PA
- Rating 3.56 out of 5 125 reviews
Eastern Lebanon County Senior High School Reviews
Rating 3.56 out of 5 125 reviews
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Most teachers are nice. Most students are nice. A lot of the students vape and other stuff in the bathrooms. Food is as good as it can be for school good. Football is a huge sport at ELCO. ELCO has a lot of iptiojs for sports, clubs, etc. Overall an average high school.
ELCO is geared to the academic smart person. I felt the struggling student was somewhat pushed aside. Counselors didn’t take college goals seriously. The sport activities were a highlight.
This is a well rounded academia school and sport minded facility. The teachers show interest in seeing students succeed and the coaches are diligent at maintaining a team effort.
I have been going to ELCO my whole school career and there have been a few things I have disliked. This school has given me various opportunities that allowed me to get a jump start on my future career goal. I have also been opened up to various extracurricular activities that in some schools aren't available.
Love the teacher helped me through thick and thin. Love the way teachers helped me with questions I didn’t know how to answer. They also helped me with making sure I submits things on time and making sure I understand what they are explaining.
The teachers are nice but a lot of work they give us is pointless. The councillors often hurt more than they have ever helped.
It’s a small community, everyone knows everyone. It’s hard to get into the small community if you just are entering the district.
For the most part it is a nice school with a relatively good selection academic and athletically. The main drawback is the administration isn’t particularly good at explaining things to students and preparing them for the future.
Teachers are there to make money, not teach. Curriculum is not that great. Guidance counselors are rude and don’t care.
Eastern Lebanon County High School (ELCO) is a small school in a rural community. The biggest problem with this school is its lack of Resources for a student intrested in a STEM Major. The school doesn't offer AP Physics and Taking BC Calc woud be impossible if a student isn't very proactive from the start of their high school career. The School also offers no introduction to computer science related subjects such as Java or C programing.
A very close knit community, that holds good small community values but lacks diversity overall. The academics are good and the High School offers a variety of AP and College level courses to take; students have the option of dual enrollment to further their education as they see fit. The teachers a committed to their job and making connection with their students, to ensure the student's success. Many of the teachers are good mentors and role models for students. Administration is friendly and helpful to students, supporting their ideas and ambitions. The community surrounding the High School is one that really wants their students to be successful and thrive.
In 2009, the district superintendent at the time, let it slip that the ELCO SD was operating without a standard, aligned district wide written curriculum. The last known copy of anything resembling organized, properly, maintained curriculum “may exist on a floppy disk”. Over the years, the administration and the school board told parents curriculum issues would be addressed and a district wide curriculum was in place. Only to find out this past fall, under new administration, ELCO SD was still operating without a properly maintained, standard aligned written curriculum.
Most parents and graduates don’t care to talk about this but, over the last 5-10 years, more ELCO seniors are not prepared for college level work and find themselves spending their summers in Summer College or spending semester 1 of their freshman year in one or more remediation classes because they do poorly on class placement exams. This needs to be addressed.
Most parents and graduates don’t care to talk about this but, over the last 5-10 years, more ELCO seniors are not prepared for college level work and find themselves spending their summers in Summer College or spending semester 1 of their freshman year in one or more remediation classes because they do poorly on class placement exams. This needs to be addressed.
The experience was good, the school spirit was there if you want it to be there. My family and I are proud to have spent my education there, and would recommend it to others.
In my time there, I enjoyed such things as the kind and supportive faculty and being part of the Quiz Bowl team. However, assuming it has not been fixed, it would be nice to link up with the municipal water supply. When I was there, water was apparently drawn directly from a natural source underground, which could result in a rather poor taste.
The school provides pretty good material and has some different classes that most schools that I have seen don't have such as EMT.
Personally, I have loved my high school experience here at ELCO High. The teachers here are amazing, because the majority of them genuinely care about the success of each of their students. I struggle in math, but every single math teacher I had was willing to take study hall and lunch periods, sometimes even after school, to work with me and sometimes reteach me things from class. The student body itself is not very diverse, because we are mostly of white descent. The building itself needs to renovated, because there are various problems that could cause safety issues.
The school in general is pretty safe, there are occasional threats that are taken care of immediately, and the school's effort in safety is very prominent.