882 Thomas Joseph Ln
Columbus, OH 43235

My experience was ok, the education was adequate and set me up well for college. I do have to say that the administration thinks very highly of Worthington school district, to the point of comparing our education to that of “the best private academies in the world.” Yeah that’s not true. Our average test scores have slipped below most of the comparable districts around central Ohio, and our placement of grads into elite universities is FAR worse than Dublin/UA/New Albany. Advising for college applications is laughably poor. You should be encouraging hard work and success, but it seemed like a pattern of complacency with mediocre results. For the amount of resources available to Worthington schools, there should be much better results when it comes to standardized test performance and placement into colleges.

The teachers are constantly working to find different ways of having each student improve individually. I refer to this as the individualized Child targeted strategy, and they do this in order to challenge and help if need be the child. This place breeds and nurtures readers. Student's horizon is broaden through music, art and technology.

I really liked the idea of Phoenix when I first signed up, but looking at my experience from 2 years here, I think that there are some really good things about Phoenix but also some flaws with the school. Because the school is so small, students really get a chance to get to know all of the students and staff. But, a flaw from this is that a lot of petty drama gets turned into a huge situation and somehow the entire school will hear about it, not really a good sense of confidentiality. The mastery grading is a fantastic approach, but for students who already struggle with task and time management it’s incredibly easy to fall behind super fast, and there is a huge difference of the workload compared to highschool, It honestly felt like a breath of fresh air after the first semester because I had way less assignments and seemingly more time to complete them. I think there is a lot of busywork to fill in the time that you get to complete work, and students who fail to complete everything are excluded from things. But, I still enjoyed my time at Phoenix and I made a lot of good friends and there are some really awesome teachers here!