Riverdale Elementary School

It is a great school and very helpful staffs specially Mrs Umanzor was very very kind and helpful. Recommended 200% you will never be disappointed.

Honestly, I recomend this school 100%! This school provides the dicipline that children need to adapt to at an early age to ensure self-decipline when they grow. This school also does an astonishing job at providing and equal education for kids at lower, and higher learning pastes. And, this school also helps with adapting to new languges. Once I knew one student who could not speak nor understand english in the 1st grade. However, by the time he was in middle 2nd grade, he could speak english fluently. I myself was shocked! Teachers in this school are 100% against discrimination, prejudice and racism and staff take it VERY seriously aswell. And, Staff do an outstanding job making sure your child has the transportation to come in and out of school. Looking for a school were your child can feel accepted? Rogers heights is the place!

it is so hostole and the people dot get me stortid on thim.

We relocated specifically to this school from another state. We attended for less than 2 years and in that time we experienced poor leadership, poor communication from the administration, and witnessed classroom management styles that do not acknowledge the dignity of the student. The school does not have the resources to support students with learning differences and classroom teachers use punitive measures when children do not follow classroom rules that are not conducive to the development of children. I would not recommend this school and I'm very disappointed that it is touted within the Catholic community as an example of excellence in Catholic classical education. My oldest daughter has now stopped practicing her faith after leaving the school; she is only 11 but has chosen to stop receiving sacraments because of how she was treated at SJA which shaped her understanding of God. If your student is self-motivated, can sit still in a desk for the majority of the day, and abide by a rigid learning environment then perhaps they can do well at this school. Teachers say "three strikes and you are out" as a warning in the classroom and as a management technique; students with learning differences are put in the hallway with no support, and as a whole instructors do not have the training to teach with social-emotional intelligence needed working with children. One teacher imparticular was more interested in rules than personal relationships with new families and students. This school was a massive disappointment, and we will not use another Catholic school as we saw this as our last hope for failing Catholic education. Maybe years earlier when it initially became classical and improved enrollment the school was a good place for children under Mary Pat Donoghue. We did not have a positive experience under the principal (Danny Flynn) who has now left to work as a consultant for other Catholic classical schools.