St Pius X School

Principal skips down the hall singing while her students behave like delinquents. 1000% would not recommend.

Having two lower school students since pre-primary, we have been very happy with the school, extended day program, extracurriculars, and camp (Summer at Friends)! We especially appreciate the supportive nature of the teachers and staff - students are encouraged to collaborate and focus on executive functioning over competition and test scores. Our students enjoy many of the lower school after-school clubs, which focus on music, art, and outdoor time. The school has a wonderful art program and in-school and after-school music program, with opportunities for many instruments and solo/group music programs.

Bryn Mawr is a very good school. The homework load may be a lot but, it has very good teachers and Academics.

This school is an absolute disgrace and has shown us that not only are the teachers and leadership unprepared to truly care for or educate children, but the facility itself is outdated, dirty, and starved of resources. Walking inside feels like stepping back into the 1970s — peeling paint, old equipment, and a clear lack of investment into the learning environment. It’s obvious money is not being put into this school, and the children are the ones suffering for it. Our 6-year-old has been bullied daily by multiple classmates — pinched, hit, called names, and even had food thrown on him — and instead of taking accountability, the school’s response was to brush our concerns aside or flip the blame back onto him. Our 4-year-old had his hand slammed in the door twice in one week, came home in clothes we didn’t send him in, had his belongings repeatedly go missing, and even told us that his teacher puts him in the corner as punishment, which no parent was ever informed of. The “smiley face/sad face” daily reports they send home are meaningless, often showing 15+ sad faces with no explanation, yet the one time a substitute was there his chart was full of smiles, proving the problem isn’t the child, it’s the teacher. Leadership is no better: the charter manager literally conducted a meeting with us while driving, phone cutting in and out, asking us to repeat information we had already laid out in detailed emails, while her assistant sat on camera with a nasty, uninterested look, cutting us off any time we tried to speak. It was one of the most unprofessional, embarrassing displays we’ve ever experienced from supposed “leaders.” The entire system here feels dismissive, chaotic, and outdated — the school is not safe, not modern, and not built to support children in 2025. We’ve already pulled our 4-year-old out permanently, and if the bullying of our 6-year-old continues, we’ll pull him too and make sure every parent, every attorney, and every news outlet hears the truth about what goes on in this school.