Somerton

Loesche William Elementary School , 595 Tomlinson Rd, Philadelphia, PA 19116 is bad .

Principal is not professional. She needs to be able to address the issues going on within the school.

Hi, I was an alumni of this school at a point in time and here’s what I have to say (I will be discussing the 9-12 highschool side of the school). I think calvary has some great teachers in their core subjects who genuinely care about their students and their education. However, I feel like the school fails to provide teachers real resources in their lesson plans or assessments. For example, when I went to Calvary as a student not too long ago, they provided teachers with barely anything to combat plagiarism or any generative AI. The teachers really couldn’t tell if a student was cheating or not, and I can tell you for certain, many students in my years did not deserve the rank they had, so academic integrity is definitely an issue. I also believe, minus AP, that the college prep and honors classes didn’t properly introduce collegiate education, leading to many of my fellow alumni to struggle if they never experienced AP. Another issue I had with the school is how they teach their Bible classes and how they go about politics in the classroom. I feel like in the mandatory Bible classes, they failed to teach enough about what was in the Bible. Instead, what we got were our “teacher’s” controversial political opinions and breakfast (I guess to make up for wasting our time for a majority of class time ). Though I’m being harsh, I do think there is SOME good at the school. There’s a sense of community within the students of school, though the occasional bullying does occur. They definitely have a lot of events for families to attend, so they are doing something in that end. The school is really safe and they really do take that seriously, which I adore and mandatory chapel on Friday’s was something I enjoyed. With all the stuff happening in the curriculum and whatever happens in those Bible classes, I think Calvary’s an alright choice and public school or other private schools in the area may be better suited for your child’s utmost education, but hey, that’s my advice and I’m not your maker. I hope this review helps someone out there who is thinking about this school : - )