Notre Dame Academy

My child attended Berkeley Lake Elementary school from kindergarten through 5th grade and we had an amazing experience. The entire staff consistently exemplified their passion for education and most importantly their love for children. I highly recommend this school!

I have two kids here and they are both thriving. The teachers are very responsive and everyone is kind. It feels that they are getting a private school education with a public school price tag.

Not an easy transition when we moved towards the end of elementary school, my son struggled to adapt to the new environment both socially and academically, with little functional support from the school. We did arrive 1 year post COVID so that may have had something to do with it. As a parent, I feel the school is excellent. The front desk staff is wonderful, the teachers are fantastic and the rest of the staff are kind. My son struggled but he enjoyed the school. Heavy academic focus, preferential treatent to those with high standardized test scores and in TAG (Talented and Gifted). The school has many fun family nights and after school activiteis for families to be invovled.

I would not recommend this school. They put something in my son’s permanent school record that led to him being labelled. Woodward let the Caucasian student who did the action with my son off without anything being put in his record. This labeling followed my son to Woodward Academy main campus where he was picked out by staff and put in detention for minor offenses with the same African American boy nearly every day. It caused my family and son a lot of emotional distress. It led to my son not liking this school.