Sunshine Beach

Our family has had three children move through Keswick Christian School, from preschool all the way to high school, and it's been a wonderful journey for our whole household. Our kids were active in sports throughout elementary and middle school, and those programs gave them more than just exercise. They built real teamwork skills, confidence, and friendships that carried into the classroom. Academically, the teachers have been consistently excellent: attentive, encouraging, and genuinely invested in helping each child grow, not just academically but as a person.What sets Keswick apart for us, though, is how seamlessly it connects what we're teaching at home and at church with what our kids experience at school. The retreats our children attended were highlights every year; meaningful, faith-centered experiences that brought them closer to their friends and deepened their own faith. It's rare to find a school that reinforces your family's values instead of working against them, and that alignment between home, church, and school has made all the difference. We've felt fully supported every step of the way, and we'd recommend Keswick to any family looking for that same kind of community.

School is just ok. The teachers are caring and there’s a wonderful sense of community there. Our children had a good experience making friends, loved extra curriculars and it being Catholic was a plus/loved the weekday masses where the kids read and sing in the choir, but the place just doesn’t seem organized and we have found stronger academics elsewhere. We were not impressed by the facilities - outdoor school that’s hot/little shade, floods frequently where my son kept coming home with soaking wet shoes and socks, and just seems like the place is old and falling a part compared to other schools. My daughter said there’s no janitor, which is odd? Also noticed a large teacher turnover rate there and all of our favorite teachers left! From talking with other parents, was told they hired a new principal, priest and management staff a few years ago and that it’s really gone down over the past few years. Heard they have gone through 3 or 4 principals and just can’t find someone who knows how to run it - seems like they’re building the plane while they’re flying it, and it’s an expensive little school. In the years we attended, we were asked to go to multiple websites and apps with all the different teachers, which made navigating middle school harder than it needs to be, especially. Should just use one system. Too many emails and hard to keep track of all the events they want you to be at/not feasible for working parents with multiple children. The school text messages were also out of control and became a joke in our family…literally four text messages in one day and some sent late at night or early morning. Also found an imbalance there with multiple tests being scheduled the same week. We enjoyed both the sports and music activities after school but seemed the two were always scheduled the same days which made it challenging with soccer games and the musical...then our kids had to go home and find time for homework/study for tests, which I guess is an issue with all schools. I think they need to fix this to make it easier on families, though. We really wanted to like this school - kids were happy and loved it, but just seems like the place is dirty, neglected and not running properly. Things are made harder on families then they need to be and they stretch the teachers thin/I felt bad for some of them. Used to have a say in things but they changed the PTA/hired a lady who just talks forever. Felt like a mix between a run down country club and a mission.