Ivy Hill

Our family had a wonderful experience at St. Joseph School, and we will always look back on our time there very fondly. The school has a warm, faith-centered environment with strong traditions, caring teachers, and a genuine sense of community that made a lasting impression on our daughter and our family.There are truly special educators at SJS who helped encourage our daughter academically, socially, and personally during such important formative years. We especially appreciated the school’s emphasis on kindness, character, and Catholic values woven throughout everyday student life.Like any school, no environment is perfect, but overall we found SJS to be a loving and supportive community filled with families who care deeply about their children and the school itself.Ultimately, our family relocated, which led us to make the difficult decision to transition elsewhere. Leaving was not easy because there were many people and memories we genuinely treasured during our time at SJS.We remain grateful for the friendships, teachers, traditions, and experiences that shaped such an important chapter of our daughter’s childhood.

The school tends to not support children with ADHD. The teachers and staff will report behavior but I was told flat out that the school lacks staff and funding to address and ADP. The school relies heavily on standardized teaching meaning everyone starts at a base level and the build is slow. This I believe can be boring to my child and has lead to lack of engagement. Still participating at bare minimum and not progressing forward. When requesting a follow up on behavior from the school, it is purely on the parent to follow up. The PTA is great and often supplements resources that the school isn't providing. Communications happens with the parents separately and it appears mutually shared experience. It appears to be better options nearby.