Northwest Expedition Academy

Well, my granddaughter's very first week of school was very disappointing. She was the smallest little girl at the school this year and was bullied. She was punched in the face, in kindergarten, 3 separate times by boys in her class. Twice by the same boy who apparently has a reputation for being a bully. She was assigned the line leader and he didn't want that so he punched her in the face. There was nothing done by the school to help her integrate with the kids in her class. Her mom is a preschool teacher and she is fine in other settings like gymnastics. It became too overwhelming that my daughter pulled her out of school. No apologies from the teacher or the principal, nothing was done, no one reached out. Except me. I reached out to the principal and told her that it's unexceptionable that the smallest girl in her school is being bullied and physically attacked in the first week of school and no one working there took any action to rectify the situation. So my granddaughter felt safe and not so traumatized. It's now February and she's finally willing to give it another try at a different elementary by my house. Just failure on too many levels. And disappointment is an understatement. The price of the homes in that area is high. The parenting and leadership should be abound. I mean who is ok with there young girl kindergartener being punched in the face on 3 separate occasions in the first 2 weeks of school and no word from the school. This grandma is not ok with it. I wish the parents of these kids could meet up and we all talk about it. Unfortunately, that was never discussed. Hopefully the staff learns better.

Excellent school, teachers, staff & parent envolvement. Academically Dalton is one of the best in the state of Idaho. Couldn't ask for a better school!

My daughter goes to Skyway. She has loved all of her teachers. Two thumbs up!

We are just finishing what was our first and will also be our last year at HFCS. We basically agree 100% with another reviewer’s comments from 2016 (and here we are 10 years later). We dealt with a kindergarten teacher that could not handle managing a group of 6-7 little boys, without resorting to responding with highly emotional blaming and finger-pointing and zero strategy to solve classroom management. It’s a school with high student turnover, lots of gossip and cliques, that begs for money at every turn (despite being the most expensive private school in the area) and has absolutely no resources. We gave it a shot, do not recommend and won’t be looking back.

Historically strong school. Sadly is currently under leadership that prioritize student emotions over reality and natural consequence. She will happily carve parents out if she believes the parent's perspective will differ from her own, but if the parent is friendly with her or wealthy she will bend over backwards to appease them and burn staff. The children are hers, not yours, and any adult that does not bend the knee to her demands will be brought to heel or executed from the "family". Multiple staff members have also expressed that when they do not immediately bend to her whim and do so every time they undergo a pressure campaign designed to run them out and let her keep a clean conscience, again unless they are her inner circle, in which case, they can do no wrong. This pressure can even extend to the point of allowing slander to stand or even forwarding said slander.Current board is hand-picked to be a rubber stamp for her agenda. Narcissism and nepotism reign.