Marquez Charter School

I have a lifelong connection with St Matthew's. I am an alum and my children are current students. The campus is as beautiful as ever with a safe hands-on learning environment. The community is strong with engaged parents and faculty. My kids are happy and have made deep friendships and are succeeding academically. The teachers and administration are top notch. They truly care about the community and the students. The pandemic brought on its challenges, but it's great to be past that with an amazing new Head of School and an active supportive community.

We’ve been at Village for seven years and truly couldn’t be happier with our experience. Village strikes a wonderful balance between strong academics and meaningful social-emotional growth. It’s a school that not only educates children, but genuinely nurtures them — and we feel incredibly grateful to be part of this community. We see this play out in our family with excellent standardized test scores and excellent emotional intelligence. Village’s placement into top middle schools speaks for itself. Through both COVID and the fires, the school demonstrated remarkable resilience, leadership, and care. The way they supported students and families during those unprecedented challenges was thoughtful, steady, and above and beyond.

It really is a magical experience to be a parent of a student attending Westside Waldorf. We have the most incredible teachers who have the most passion and love of guiding these little souls into victorious members of Society. They really see through to the child and nurture that spirit with appropriate guidance and nurturing and as a result my child seems so supported loved, seen and held. The leaders of the school listen and hear the parents and collaborate with us to make this a home away from home. The playground is the most magical element of the community. It is where all parents meet every morning to handover our children and to see our kids flourish in a true childhood like experience is a handover like no other. I truly believe if we want our children to succeed in this new upcoming unknown world nurturing the spirit and the soul of the person like Westside Waldorf does is putting our kids ahead.