63 Blacksmith Dr, Sudbury, MA 01776

This school has excellent programs and resources for children with special needs and spends a large amount of money on every student (comparatively). It also has a very safe campus with good pick up and drop off protocols. However, as with most schools, your experience depends on the teachers and peers. Many of the children here are very privileged (obviously, it is Sudbury) but not in a good way. It seems that many of the households have parents working a lot and children being left to be raised by nannies and video games. When my children entered this school they were very sweet and empathetic. My kids are not overly impressionable, but they are young kids who look up to their peers and, since they have been attending here, they come home repeating things they hear and many of it is troubling. The references range from violent movies and video games to mocking the way girls look (mind you these are elementary aged children on the younger end). I have personally witnessed children laughing at kids when they are left out at lunch and recess and purposely hurting other kids and walking off as they cry. I have also personally witnessed staff do nothing about it. The mascot of the school is a “Haynes Hawk” and the children get rewarded if they do good things (like include others or help out in class), but in practice there doesn’t seem to be a lot of respect amongst the kids. It has been sad to see my innocent sweet kids be surrounded by “teenager” like behavior so young. As mentioned, the school itself does have some benefits: small, safe, large resources, location is suburban and beautiful. But when you get a bunch of privileged kids that are (IMO) spoiled, left to their screens, and likely bored with the smaller class sizes and lack of diversity it’s not always the best recipe for learning tolerance, respect, and kindness. All in all the education is good but the atmosphere is your standard, white, wealthy town experience with children that lean toward passive bullying and exclusion for fun.