9963 Gulf Rd
Painted Post, NY 14870

Calvin U. Smith Elementary School is terrific!! I'm on child #3 attending Smith School .. My son's Bruce now 25, Benjamin now 23 and Tyler who just turned 10 .. ALL have had fabulous teachers & came out with so much great knowledge!! Great kids, Great teachers & they have a revolutionary war program that is OUTSTANDING and only for kids in 4th grade ... I could write all day about what great things Smith School has to offer!!

I think overall this is a good school, with some excellent teachers. The main problem is that it's so big that it feels like your child is lost in the crowd. My child was in the IB Program. There is a lot of pressure for kids to do the full certificate program. In retrospect, I think the full program was a bad idea for us. It's a huge amount of work if you include CAS. The oversight of the program feels weak. Student progress doesn't seem to be tracked adequately which is stressful when your child is a procrastinator. Taking part in the program prohibited exploration of other topics because of time and scheduling. In the end, my child was still rejected, deferred or waitlisted by most of the selective schools he applied to, in spite of participation in extracurriculars, etc. You just have to weigh the stress vs the benefits obtained.