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Current parent with a student at the school. The school culture is great and they have great teachers and a partnership with the Y of Central Maryland.

All three of my children attended AES and absolutely loved it! The teachers and staff are so dedicated and genuinely care about the students even after graduation! My only complaint is the drop and pick up congestion. I wish the parents cared more about following the rules and not parking in front of the no parking zones in front of the library. It inhibits cars from pulling into the car rider pick up line and buses pulling in. Also parents park, then walk their child across the street making it dangerous to pull out. Why not just use the car rider loop?

Contacted the school for over a year and out of the 100 phone calls only possibly 5 have been answered. Then when you ask if the principal is in office she never is. Doesn’t answer her emails or voicemails and either the secretary’s don’t relay messages or they’re just completely ignoring whatever it is you’re looking into. They have all been extremely nasty on the phone when you tell them you’ve called and nobody is responding. Most likely it was them that didn’t do the work hence the attitude. Dealing with people’s children and hasn’t even responded through any form of communication. Doesn’t get any more unprofessional than that! From the principal to the lowest title they have this school nobody cares about our children very much if they don’t even reach back out to a concerned parent. She’s never in the office so who’s watching after the kids and checking on teachers? She is not fit for this position whatsoever and it has been a horrible experience trying to get ahold of someone it’s like because it’s not their kid they could care less. Wouldn’t recommend this school at all your kids interest is not at heart and the person who should be there the most is hardly in the building. Will be reaching out to the board of education and possibly a civil suite. These people have no shame and this needs to be brought to the light.

It was a pleasure to have my daughter at this school! The diversity, inclusion of children with different learning needs, and overall school culture was phenomenal. I appreciate the entire staff for the heart they put into Relay on a daily basis. My son will be there in two years and I’m excited to have him go through Relay.

Unfortunately we did not have a good experience. I wanted to enroll my Son and he had a shadow day and afterwards I got zero response from Staff or Jen who handled admissions after multiple emails and have not been able to proceed with registration. We would have liked to just been told they do not want to proceed with registering my son but instead we were left in the dark with the process.