Arthur Elementary School

Great school with excellent teachers who really care

This school is like the cup in Matthew 23:25 that has been washed on the outside but is completely rotten on the inside. I would say a lot more, but the Yelp review for this school explains it pretty well, so I will try to give a brief summary. The administration is incompetent and deceptive, the curricula are obsolete, and the students are rude and cliquey and just as duplicitous as the administrators. Grade inflation is rampant, and students regularly receive high marks for mediocre work - I once saw a classmate who submitted an essay about Margaret Thatcher inventing abortion in the early 1900s later go on to graduate with the highest honors despite openly cheating on final exams. Continuing on that thread, the school has a major cheating problem that the administration refuses to acknowledge despite being warned about it multiple times. To their credit, the teachers are very competent and work as well as they can with the fundamentalist gay-bashing young-earth creationist curricula they are forced to use. Reading between the lines, it’s clear that many of them have been compelled to dumb down their classes to accommodate the lazier students that the administration favors. Do not be fooled by buzzwords like 'Christlike character' and 'academic excellence' - if you pay attention for long, you will start to see through this school very quickly. I would strongly recommend online Christian schools like Scholé Academy or HSLDA for a better educational experience.

What I love most about Cedar Valley Christian is the family feel. The community at this school is our second family. I feel safe entrusting my children to the staff and my children love their school. They are being challenged, but also nurtured with a Christ-centered education. As a parent, I feel comfortable talking with teachers and staff about my child's needs and I know they care about my kids. There have been many times I have been given great advice from the staff regarding my children, and I have seen them being cared for and prayed for by the office staff. There is no school like Cedar Valley!