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Acmetonia Elementary School has made many excellent upgrades like a new band/chorus addition and the newer addition for 4,5,6th students. The staff are creative and offer additional assistance for children who display a slower learning pace. The district keeps the school well supplied with learning supplies and equipment. Security at the school is better than 10 years ago and all access doors are always locked BUT would it would be desirable to have a full time armed guard at EACH school location in the AVSD district. All in all, this is a school that offers an exciting learning concept and excellent student/teacher ratios.

Compared to the other schools in the New Ken Arnold district this is a way better choice if you can afford to send your child to a private school. We, as a family, give up a lot to send our daughter here because we feel it is worth it. Our first day at Martin School, the public school of New Kensington, for pre school and before we got to the front door a mother was swearing up and down at her three little kids and the youngest wasn't even old enough to go to school. Her words were worse than what you would hear in a prison and I am sure that is where many of the kids will end up with mothers like that. Hence the reason to send our daughter to MQA.