Lake Junction

MRH ECC is a great place for a child to learn and grow. My oldest attended from preschool all the way to 2nd grade. Her curiosity was not only welcomed but encouraged. She was part of the gifted classes in 2nd grade and Ms. Swboda was great at stretching her academically. My youngest is a special education student and he has shown tremendous growth from preschool and now in kindergarten. He was non verbal in preschool with little vocalizations and now he is more vocal and trying to use sentences. This is due in part to his team that works with him on a daily basis.

I have 2 kids at TCS. One was a student from kindergarten to 3rd grade and the other just did preschool.To sum up the school in 1 sentence, I don’t think it’s worth the cost of admission. We had a small 3k a year scholarship so were still paying close to 20k a kid.3rd grade was the only year that actually blew me away. The teachers were the phenomenal and I saw real growth. That grade we got our money’s worth.Pre-k for my daughter was also very good but I don’t think it was any better than our phenomenal preschool before moving.2nd grade was good but I felt no better than a good public school.I was not at all impressed with kindergarten or 1st grade. We were locked into a contract so we couldn’t switch. My son has dyslexia and I had to repeatedly remind people that he was supposed to be getting time with their learning specialist. I decided to pay for outside tutoring. The final straw was learning that only the 1st - 3rd grade teachers had teachers certificates. Many didn’t even have a bachelor’s degree in a related field. Kinder teacher with a generic art degree. 4th grade teacher with a marketing degree. I was also super upset when they started enrolling higher number of kids. 27 kids in a classroom! That’s insanity when you are paying 20k a year for tuition. I love their focus on outdoors, exploration, learning by experience but I honestly only saw that occur in 3rd grade. Their head of school gave himself a big raise and the teacher’s still don’t make as much as they should. They cut staffing and it appears spent that money on making the building look nicer, which seems fine u less you realize the number of positions they cut and the enrollment increase for classes. Needless to say we pulled our kids after my oldest’s contract was over going into 4th grade.