South Park Hill

Amazing school with great community engagement and support. Teachers have long tenure and it shows….. very experienced and wonderful at their jobs. Specials are well thought out and routinely enjoyed. School supports all learners where they are. The overall feel is that they truly care about the kids, which is the point.

We have been a family at Blessed Sacrament for many years and decided to pull our children out of the school at the end of this school year. The leadership at the school is severly lacking and is so focused on creating "little saints" and educating students about Catholicism that the academics have really suffered. The students attend mass two days per week and on those days also have another 30 minutes of theology in the classroom. There is very little academic instruction done on the two mass days. Many of the teachers are not qualified to teach the subject/grade level they are currently in, which results in a lack of academic knowledge and classroom management in those classrooms. You can look up their current credential status on the Colorado Department of Education website under educator credential search. The teachers in the upper elementary grades consistently yell at the students, are very demeaning in front of other students, and lack the general knowledge of how to educate students at this age. They also have very little tolerance for students that do not sit quielty in their seats and are not perfect students. Bullying is not handled at all at this school. If you reach out to the teachers or administration about bullying they consistently defend the bullies and do nothing about it. The school also does not differentiate to meet all the students academic needs. Teachers do not pull small groups to differentiate to meet students at all levels in the classroom and as a result many families have to pay for outside tutoring on top of paying for tuition. Over the past 3 years many students have left the school which has resulted in many grades only having one class per grade level. These classes are extremely large for a private school with no para support. It is quite evident that the teachers are not able to handle having large classes due to the lack of academic rigor and management.