Cedar Mill

I’m writing this review and hopefully many parents also willing to share their experiences as well.My child is currently 5th grade student, and without disclosing the gender and ethnicity. Hopefully, this will remain anonymous and fair reviews to the BSE. Learning and teaching: overall, I will give 3.5/5 to the school. The teaching and curriculum is definitely not challenging or anywhere near enough to prep the student to be ready for mid-school. Despite no-homework policy by BSD, there is not enough in-class work to keep the student engaged or understand about the subjects.Safety and emotional-support: this’s the primary reason that leads me to leave this review and comment. Overall, I will score this 1/5 or 0/5 if I’m allow to…The school is totally chaos…especially in the playground or other program outside of the homeroom teacher(it depends on the homeroom teacher you have, some of them are very incapable…). My child has shared multiple bully cases either experienced or witnessed… and the feedback from teacher or principal are not convincing and no further actions taken. In addition, they hired many unqualified assistance or teacher in the playground who is in charge of monitoring the situation. FYI, there is no consequences or whatsoever for children that demonstrates unwelcome behavior at school, unless the situation was endangering other’s life(pocket knife or gun type situations).I can’t comment on the special education due to lack of engagement or experience. Overall, I will pick Findley or Jacob Wismer over BSE.

We have been at this school for 3 years and couldn't be happier with the curriculum, teachers, staff and other families at the school. Both of my children are happy to go to school everyday and often ask me if we can go early so they can be the first ones there. My older child was extremely shy and never wanted to participate in any activities we used to take him to. After being at MSB, he has developed a confidence in himself and a curiosity for learning new things. We had originally planned on sending our children for the primary level (age 3 - 5) only but will be keeping them here for the elementary program as well (age 6-12). We can't imagine them anywhere else.

We have been involved with St Pius for a while. While the school started out great many years ago, it has not been good since we got new administration. It was a great place before. I felt it was much more co-creative and the teachers liked actually working there. The school is very cliquey and we've seen many turnovers of parents leaving. For the past few years, turnover has also been high for staff and morale seems to be very low. There are better private schools in the area with staff that cares about both the students and the parents.