Joseph C Moscona School

The worst school ever. My son never had a problem with pink eye until we enrolled him in this school. Once you enter the school , it smells like your in the middle of bourbon street.. yes urine smell.It was many students in my daughter’s class that didn’t speak English but spoke only Spanish. My daughter, 8 y/o at the time , was told to help those students and she doesn’t speak Spanish. No program to help foreign students learn English- just throwing them in a school without knowing anything. Carpool is probably the most organized. They don’t even ask for id when checking your student out! My sister was about to sign out my son , many times, as long as she knew his dob name and grade level.

Experiences at St Martin's can be rich and fulfilling with certain faculty in certain classrooms. Issues described in the post from a parent stating the statistics of the school across multiple years is unfortunately accurate. Under the new leadership, the situation has not changed. The school does continue to lack diversity not only in the student body but in the faculty as well. Lack of discipline remains a issue. Class size, while small and intimate, can create social challenges for students. Tuition money is to root of acceptance and retention in regard to consistent discipline issues that are not addressed sternly enough to prevent them from reoccurring. Alum hiring and retention remains the primary focus of the faculty. Endowment funds guide faculty retention decisions and allow for continued poor behaviors. Systemic issues remain at the heart of the growth issue for this institution.

My child has went to school here for many years I have seen a massive decline in teachers actually teaching the students majority of the time they expect the parents to teach the students and the students typically have no clue what's going on at the end of the day other than that great School if you want to essentially homeschool your kid and pay for it just so they can be around other kids that are Catholic.

Many other options for good schools. Make an informed choice

The worst leadership ever. Every aspect is micromanaged. The teachers are not treated as professionals. There is no professional autonomy, regardless of years of experience. The families of this wonderful school community will ultimately suffer under the current leadership.

I’ve heard that the staff that work here are very territorial and staff with more tenure will try to slander less-tenured staff. Surely libel and slander fall against the same morality code that ban employees from living with a partner outside of marriage, yeah??