Chelsea

I absolutely love this school! My son was kicked out of 1 of the other schools in the district and is now at Hilltop. They have worked with him with his disabilities and helped him to become such a better student. I can’t say enough great things about the Principal and all the teachers and staff I have come in contact with!

My child has had a great experience at CMS its disappointing that it has negative reputation. There is alot of support for the students from teachers, principals and staff and the community. If children are misbehaving or not thriving in a regular classroom they are able to transfer to an alternative program but still graduate as chichester student's. I believe that is the reason the performance scores are so low. The surrounding community is mixed with low medium and high income families. Its not only low income families as stated on this site.

It is a wonderful school with the most caring and supportive principal and teachers I've ever met!

As someone who graduated from this school, I felt like it was really average ( I didn't hate it until I didn't want to go but it definitely didnt love it) the stuff they teach are really easy. On like the second week of first grade they werent even teaching stuff like 1+1 (by the way that was an actual problem) they don't really support advanced stuff either. I took their test for the advanced class but apparently people began protesting and saying it wasn't fair but how is it not? Kids who passed the test just need that education but the school somehow AGREED to it, canceled the advanced class, and replaced it with some other 'enrichment' math class. I can also see kids in the non enrichment class didn't want to learn either. It really was just messing around but at least it was a little interesting and the teacher was nice.Speaking of teachers, some of them are nice but some are not. When I was is 1-3 grade I felt like everything was ok but then when I got to 4th grade I figured the paras were very biased against older kids. There was one ( I won't say the name) that especially liked to bully the 5th graders. When kids in another class were telling jokes to each other, they were laughing and having a good time. Then that para came and told the kids to stop talking and with a heavy attitude and told the principal the 5th grade lunch is really bad and chaotic. Since the new principal is also very biased against us, she took out a separate day, claiming it was a 5th grade lunch bonding or whatever and spent the whole time that was supposed to be enjoyable into seriously talking about how we should immediately obey what the paras said no matter what they wanted us to do. Only a small fraction of teachers are responsible. For the fifth grade, we barely did science or social studies. Buses are bad too because we literally have to wait half an hour in a hot sweaty bus just for it to leave the school. Imagine how much time that wastes! 30mins a day, about 180 school days! That's 5400 minutes worth of waiting in a hot sweaty bus! There's also close to zero homework. How does the school expect kids to study well if they don't give any homework? See, if they give a little homework, kids would have better test scores so they can review what they learned and parents would stop complaining and the school might open the advanced classes again! The school is pretty and the recess yard is well maintained, but I still would not recommend going here.

I wanted to provide a follow up since my daughter is now in 4th grade. My daughter truly loves to go to school! She is so excited to get there and misses it when the school is closed. Her academic development is taken very seriously and she thrives in this environment. She now uses the computer daily for her homework and IXL skills testing. She reads her library books completely every week and is excelling with the demanding testing that 4th grade brings. This school focuses on the child and brings out their best! We reinforce the faith-based learning at home through prayer and mass attendance. She is proud of her faith. I have a soon to be kindergartener starting in the fall and I am so excited for her to grow and learn about her faith, service and self accomplishments. Truly a wonderful school and I cannot say enough about the loving teachers! It is because of them my child excels and thrives at school! God Bless each and every one of them!

We had two boys go through kklc, and i have nothing but great things to say about all the staff. Both were more than prepared for kindergarten... would recommend to everyone