Loyal Heights

All the teachers are fine but the history teacher assigns so much work that even the best students in my grade are drowning in work. I get panic attacks and horrible stress issues because of her, she grades and assigns like a high school teacher. She acts kind and understanding until week 3 of her class, and suddenly you realize she's assigned 3 high school level assignments before your first month of 7th grade. All the other teachers are fine.

We learned of Matheia from family friends, and it’s been a great experience. The size of the school (40-55 students total, K-5th) and the fact that every class works with every teacher means that, over the years, Matheia’s teachers really get to know their students. Literacy and social emotional learning are central throughout the curriculum, and for our son, science class with Christina is what gets him out of bed in the morning. The art program is also really robust- I’m a little jealous. ;) They have also preserved outside time- 1 hour- each day, which is rarer and rarer these days in elementary education. Because they are a small school with a small staff, sometimes communication is a little slow, and they don’t have the resources for sports teams or a large music program, in house, but the PTA and staff have worked to find outside resources for extracurricular opportunities. I wholeheartedly recommend Matheia to families I meet, and we’ll be sad to leave at the end of 5th grade.