Cedar Ridge Elementary School

I have 3 children that all attended Prairie View - The teachers are wonderful - This school has a variety of incomes and cultures and it is great to see a school that has a great mix and great students - could ask for a better school setting for my children- very welcoming -

The Special Education team is exceptional and very attentive! Students excel, parent communication is strong, and staff care deeply!

Eagle Heights has an incredible sense of community amongst the teachers, staff, students, parents and our Interns. Our amazingly strong parent community knows that the best practice Immersion for students is an Immersion environment with NATIVE Spanish speakers. As such, we raise funds and administer a very in depth and intensive program that brings in 16-18 Native Spanish speaking interns from various countries across the globe!!! These interns assist the teachers in the classroom; they provide extensive cultural learnings for the students; they assist in nuances in the spanish language that exists across countries so that our students are prepared for whatever they face. Ultimately these students return home as amazing ambassadors of our community and the United States in general. Our school changes lives!!!

Over the last 10 years, we have had 4 boys attend this school and the last 3 years have been a terrible experience for our middle schoolers. First, many of the teachers do not have teaching degrees and they lack the ability to manage the classroom and the ability to actually teach the material. For example, the LA teacher does not even provide grading rubrics and many A students do really poorly in her class as they do not know the expectations. The Athletic director has made so many mistakes over his tenure that many students have quit playing school sports. One of the lunchroom monitors is so full of disdain for the children that she frequently and angrily approaches kids and yells at them. Even worse is that the administration insists on enforcing an archaic and punitive discipline system that sets children up to fail, especially boys with high energy and/ADHD, which happens to be numerous athletic boys. They are threatening suspension and expulsion, and actually suspending boys who have minor write-ups, nothing major. They do this in the name of mercy and justice, but what they are doing is the exact opposite. They are actually driving our future leaders away from the Catholic faith instead of learning how to deal with high energy teenagers, which such techniques are readily available to them.

Chapel Hill Academy is an amazing school! The head of the school, the teachers and all the staff are so nice, good with the kids and are always willing to help or answer any questions. I highly recommend Chapel Hill Academy.