Rombout Ridge

my main issue with the school is too much unsupervised time where kids have the opportunity to bully and no one seems to do anything about it. My child is bullied mainly on the bus. She says the bus driver plays music so loud she doesn't hear what is going on. A lot also goes on in the lunch room and on the play ground. I don't think the new principal has a clue. She has a great teacher and is learning in the classroom but does not want to go to school because of problems with other students.

Wonderful small school with incredible staff! Both of my chick seen attended Vassar and they both had great experiences that have them their needed foundations and prepared them for more intense work at the higher grade levels.

Please bear in mind that at this time Poughkeepsie Day School is PreK-8. The site has shown erroneously that it operates a high school. It does not do so in 2026.

This school is not focused on academics, more than a few children have left this school below grade level.

My daughter is graduating next month. She’s behind in just about every subject besides ELA. The math teacher has no degree, and no knowledge of the subject. The science teacher is using chat gpt to make lessons and has accidentally left the prompts up on his assignments. Bullying is a real issue, and when my child brought it up to the principal, she was told that there must be an underlying issue with her and she’s only saying it to get attention. We’ve had to get her therapy to deal with her anxieties based around the school. If she wasn’t three weeks from graduation, we would remove her immediately.