Little Rock Adventist Academy

My son is in his 4th year at Miss Selma's. This school is a special place. From the Leadership to the Teachers to the Office Staff this school is a fantastic place for children to learn and grow. Every child is treated with fairness and a commitment to his or her education. Every child is challenged academically but there is a well-round approach to educating each child with opportunities for participation in Art, Music, foreign language, PE - all the things that make for great education. Character building is big part of school and each child is expected to treat their school and each other with respect. I pray every day that my son will be able to finish out his elementary education at Miss Selma's. It is truly a treasure for our state.

They will tell you what you want to hear to get you to enroll. We were so thankful we thought we found a school that would meet our sons needs emotionally, educationally and spiritually. We were wrong. They said they would absolutely be able to adequately support our son with Autism. He got left on the back burner and ignored until we told them we were pulling him. Then "lets get together and make a plan for success." We did this dance multiple times and finally enough was enough. We wanted to quietly exit because we were emotionally drained and our son was emotionally distraught from what he dealt with. We were then told we owed another months tuition. We pulled our sons before the next billing cycle for tuition happened per the handbook. We went round and round with them asking for detailed billing so we could match our records to theirs. They kept avoiding it and throwing it back at smart tuition. Smart tuition said the school has it and back and forth. I provided them with the billing details I had showing that they actually owed us money based of my calculations but we weren't going to bring it up because we wanted to be done. I asked again for detailed billing and to stop contacting us unless they provided what we had asked for. They threatened to send us to collections. We again asked for detailed billing to which we were ignored. They did send us to collections. Which is utterly ridiculous when we asked multiple times for them to show us detailed billing with billing cycles. Moral of the story, if you put your kids here, just know that if they don't agree with you, they don't care what you have to say. Especially if you have a child that requires more attention and needs a little more one on one. They are invested in their own interest.

Don’t waste $13k on this school. It is run by unqualified parents who dominate the board and use it as their personal power trip. The head of school doesn’t even have a degree in education - and several other staff have zero education training but are hired because of whom they know (or married) on the board. The middle school offers no electives or extracurricular activities and teachers have clear favorites that are selected for everything. My child’s math scores increased 20 points after transferring to public school and said child finally stopped complaining about going to school.

We have had a wonderful experience at CAC. The teachers and the staff are very supportive and love our children! The community we have at this school is such a blessing to our family and not only is my child getting a wonderful education, but he is also learning Christian values as well.