St Joseph School

Talk to your children daily about their experiences in school. Brought my concerns to principals about two different teachers and felt dismissed and situation was overlooked by administrators. A teacher should never yell or scream at children. My child began to throw up each day before school and wet the bed at night, that’s when I knew something was wrong at school, the teacher was slamming their desk, startling the students each day. Another teacher has made students face the corner for time out, made students watch others do the class activities and sit down to watch them, taken away their chair for the day causing them to kneel all day!! Unreal how administrators can’t or won’t allow student to receive a new teacher.

Overall there's not much other than after school tutoring to help my child. My child has a difficult time focusing and says the academics are boring. However, my child enjoys the class it's just that my child gets distracted easily.

August Ahrens is... A GREAT SCHOOL! I'm very pleased with the school. :)I think it's amazing!

Overcrowded with over 700 students. Barely enough room to walk around. Health room is unorganized, speech therapist has an accent, and the teachers do not correct the way students talk to each other. When I asked for more challenging schoolwork for my child, nothing changed. When I requested a different teacher, nothing changed. When we spoke to the principal about our issues, nothing changed. The kids vandalize the park next to the school with explicit words and images regularly and ride e-bikes daily, almost hitting the younger kids. One of the school signs in front of the school had the N word on it with the hard R for months before being removed. Not a school I would recommend to anyone I care about.

5/5 They really inform parents and take the time to include you in your child(ren)s education.

I was a student here since kindergarten, and this has been the best school ever. The students are nice and the teachers are patient and caring. They won't quit until you get the lessons right. It was easy to make friends with everyone and the Robotics classes were fun. I recommend this school to everyone. It is such a great place in a great community.

I have been going to PHCA for a couple of years and here is my opinion. First of all some teachers have favoritism and are biased (middle school mainly). I love my teachers but they can be really rude when they are having a bad day. Most of the time they put their anger on the students and the next day they don’t even recall about it. They make some things a big deal even though they really aren’t, well it depends.. When it comes to bullying in my experience the principal ( a woman) did NOTHING about it! Now that we have a male principal and a woman vice principal bullying is taken seriously (sometimes..)Second is how they teach, sometimes they are rude when you ask for help. They sorta expect you to know right away but not most of the time. Some of the lessons don’t make sense at all or not just put together in a proper context. The curriculum is ok i guess. Lastly is the students oh my goodness. If you go to the church or if you have a popular sibling you are praised my everyone (students and teachers). This is part of the favoritism and the bullying. Overall i love this school i have made tons of memories but sometimes this school is just not it.