La Core Christian Elementary School

Great school with a positive and supportive environment. The ESE team is amazing. I had a great experience with my family.

Terrible school! Do not send your child here if you can at all help it. My child attended school here for 3 years. She has been bullied by students and teachers. When she would go to a teacher about the bullying they told her to stop tattling. A child pulled my child to the ground by her hair in the lunch room and another student poured milk on her head and we were not notified at all. When the teachers would do nothing and she started defending herself they suspended her. If the teachers and staff aren't going to protect the students what are they supposed to do?!

This is our second year at CTK. Overall, I have been very impressed with how they navigate the modern educational and social landscape. Our family is not Catholic, and I had not considered Catholic education an option until circumstances led me to a tour of CTK. Regardless of where you live, it is difficult to find a school that offers a high level of academic and social/emotional learning in a diverse setting. In Jacksonville, that seemed absolutely impossible until we stumbled across this school. I don't know how they manage to do that and achieve high marks on notoriously biased standardized tests, all while keeping tuition reasonable and bending over backward to make sure any family that wants to go to CTK can. While the academics are more challenging and aggressive than most of the schools we toured (and we have toured pretty much all of them), there is a good amount of support for differentiated learning. We have one disabled and one typical child- and they have both been served very well. They have been offered tools other schools (that charge more than 2x the tuition) have told us are out of reach due to "resources." There are things I would change about the school. But you won't regret putting this scrappy, happy community of educators and families diverse in thought, race, religion, and affiliations on your "to tour" list.

The teachers, check in staff, and coaches are so caring, friendly and helpful. My grandson has such a happy, stressed-free day of learning. He actually loves school and knows the importance of learning.