Is Uncommon Schools a good company to work for?

Uncommon Schools has an overall rating of 2.7 out of 5, based on over 1,125 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 12% over the last 12 months. 30% of employees would recommend working at Uncommon Schools to a friend and 29% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Uncommon Schools have been left by employees working as Director of Operations , Director and Summer Teaching Fellow .

Does Uncommon Schools pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Uncommon Schools employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Uncommon Schools. This rating has decreased by 7% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Uncommon Schools?

30% of Uncommon Schools employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Uncommon Schools 2.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.9 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Uncommon Schools?

Teacher (294) , Lead Teacher (32) , Special Projects Coordinator (26) , Office Manager (24) , English Teacher (23) , Summer Teaching Fellow (21) , Special Education Teacher (20) , Dean of Students (19) , Middle School Teacher (16) , Director of Operations (14) , Math Teacher (14) , Science Teacher (11) , Director (10) , ELA Teacher (8) , Elementary Teacher (8)

What are the pros of working at Uncommon Schools according to real employee reviews?

"Good pay and school structure" ((in 71 reviews)); "Amazing professional development" ((in 45 reviews)); "Great people to work with" ((in 41 reviews)); "staff is great and caring" ((in 39 reviews)); "kids are extremely sweet and benefits are good" ((in 34 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Uncommon Schools according to real employee reviews?

"Long hours if you want to have success as a teacher (it's not horrible)" ((in 125 reviews)); "You are losing so many teachers because of poor leadership." ((in 40 reviews)); "Unnecessary long hour pds, insane long hours" ((in 33 reviews)); "Horrible management of employees in terms of operations." ((in 18 reviews)); "Heavy work load with minimal time to truly keep up with it" ((in 16 reviews))

What are the top reviewed Uncommon Schools locations?

Brooklyn , New York , Newark , Boston , Rochester , Camden , Dorchester , Troy , Roxbury , Livingston , Montclair , New Brunswick , Chicago , Watervliet , Huntington , Portland , Canada , Houston , Porter , Memphis , Greencastle , Brecksville , Kelseyville , Las Vegas , Miami , West Palm Beach , Hyde Park , New Castle , Mission Hill , Roxbury Crossing

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2.7

30% would recommend to a friend

(1,061 total reviews)

Brett Peiser

40% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.4

Diversity & inclusion

3.1

Compensation and benefits

3.0

Career opportunities

2.9

Culture & values

2.3

Work/Life balance

2.3

Senior management

Uncommon Schools has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,061 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Uncommon Schools employee rating is 28% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0

Mar 31, 2017

Burn-out Charter (what's new?)

Teacher, secondary school

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Pros

Great individual development, but not for the faint of heart. I was much more open to criticism to start, but after a couple years, all the 1-1 time with my Instructional Lead started to feel unnecessarily demeaning. Wonderful relationships with many students. Kids were awesome, but some sadly knew how stressed teachers were and felt pity. Maybe they were nicer because of that. Staff was ok. If you love chugging "the juice" and becoming mildly automated in front of kids and during PD, by all means..

Cons

I mixed in some cons above. The point is, don't expect much of a life in NYC/NJ at an Uncommon school, especially your first year. Relay GSE...make sure you know what this is and if you don't have a masters coming in, ask lots of questions about this program. Along with all the certification exams, I found this extremely tiring and stressful to handle. The all around burn-out culture among staff just became too depressing to stick around.

2.0

Sep 2, 2017

You Work Like A Horse

Office manager

Recommend

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Pros

Those beautiful kids that will make it to college.

Cons

Your work like a horse. Your personal life does not matter to these people (top down). DOOS work their minds away and it passes down to everyone below. Everything is due at the same time. Your can work a 12 hour shift and still leave work feeling like nothing has gotten done because there are always more work than there is people to do it and hours to get it done. You work so much that you begin to lose sight of what the end goal really is and that is for those babies to make it to college. It should never be this way at any organization. They sell you a dream of a 10 hour work day but you end up doing 12-15 hours a day and many times still be expected to take your laptop home and work into wee hours of the night. This makes me so sad writing this because it all is for a great cause but the means to that end is insane.

1.0

Dec 13, 2018

I do not feel valued

Middle school science teacher

Recommend

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Pros

-Operations team runs the school with a lot of resources -Diversity among Teaching staff -Professional Development

Cons

-inflexibility in terms of teaching style and execution of lessons -questionable discipline methods that teach compliance not habits -an expectation to work 75 hours a week -no work life balance -proactively expressing concerns with leadership team is met with "we all work long hours" mentatility -"We do it for the kids" is used as an excuse to over work teachers and feels abusive -lack of diversity of leadership teams

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