St Mary Academy

I have experience as a parent with 3 different children in 3 different elementary schools over the last ten years, both private and public. I love Chancey and feel blessed that my family gets to be a part of the community there. The communication between school and parents is fantastic and clear, and I can always get through to someone who cares when I need it. Every adult I have encountered in the building shows the utmost care to the children, calling them by name, and noticing them with encouragement, for positive things. My second grader is always happy to go to school, even when she’s having hard days. I know she feels supported by the adults around her and I do too. The activities and community events offered by Chancey are always well-attended, upbeat, and fun. We just really appreciate the warm environment that has been created at Chancey. I know that a welcoming and loving atmosphere is the foundation for successful learning. My child also excels academically thanks to her time at Chancey. She loves math and reading and is proud to show off what she has learned. Overall we have had a great experience with Chancey and would highly recommend. I’m looking forward to my next child attending as well.

Our daughter loves her teachers, her classmates, and her lessons. She has grown by leaps and bounds and her joy for learning is nurtured in the Montessori environment. We are grateful to have this school in our community and look forward to many more years.

So I think that kcd teaches good things and is a good school but the problem is that they changed the start times to 8:30 every day but on wendsdays it is 9:30 and this doesn’t work well for my dad because he is a doctor and he has an assigned schedule that is hard to finesse so he has to drop me of at school earlier every day and it was so dumb that they changed the start times because of what I have stated and the fact that there is activities you can sign up for after school but since the start times are later the after school activities are earlier and it makes it so on every day I have after school activities it makes it so I have too go to Bearcat den and stay there longer and I think it was so dumb of kcd to change the start times and they should really change them back so kcd if you see this please change the start times back.

Saint Mary Academy has been an awesome school for our kids! We love the community, school culture, small class sizes, extracurricular activity opportunities and so much more. My kids love going to school here and we love it too!

Experienced, caring administrators and teachers who treat each student as an individual both in person and virtually. New building (2016) with unique YMCA partnership. We get that “small neighborhood school” even though it is part of the much larger JCPS. Proud to be a Knight!