Mint Hill Elementary School

Crown Point Elementary school- great school. I like it. Recommend.

As a concerned parent, I strongly advise against enrolling your child in this school. Student safety is not prioritized here. Bullying is a recurring issue, and unfortunately, there are no effective consequences or interventions in place to address it. Incidents are swept under the rug, and parents are left in the dark without proper explanations or follow-up.The administration is unresponsive. Attempts to meet with the principal are ignored or deflected, making it nearly impossible for parents to voice concerns or advocate for their child. The lack of transparency and accountability is deeply troubling.Children deserve a safe, supportive learning environment. Sadly, this school fails to provide that. Until real changes are made in leadership and policy, I would not recommend this school to any family.

When my child, with a disability and sensory disorder, started this school, there were teachers that showed them patience and compassion. My child started to love going to school, and spoke about wanting to be a teacher. The following year, a few of those staff members that worked well with my child left. By the 3rd year 18 teachers and staff members left, including my child's biggest support system. Several of those teachers had 10+ years at that school. That year I received phone calls after phone calls to pick up my child because they were having a melt down, and the school (behavioral tech) didn't want to be stuck dealing with them. Melt downs that are triggered by forcing them to now sit at the loud lunch table that overwhelms my child. This is something that has always been known, and they always had a person that would allow my child to eat in an office or at the back of the lunch room away from the overwhelming sounds and smells. My child won't eat when this happens, and then they spiral out of control because they don't understand and they're now stuck at school hungry. And when we try to reiterate this, they just scoff and treat us like our child terrorizes them. But magically I bring them food, they eat, and the rest of the day goes good. Multiple times when we get called to pick up our child after these episodes, they have petechiae under their arm pits and along their ribs; caused and acknowledged by the vice principal and her hench person the behavioral tech, and we're told it was because they had to restrain our child. A child not even in the 3rd grade yet, and whom has always been loved and supported by those that worked close with them, UNTIL 2022-23 when there was a big change in staff. The behavioral tech keeps bringing up puberty starting earlier and earlier in kids and it is probably the reason our child is having a bad year. Now this year, we found out the last of our chid's support system have left this school. Some of them haven't been at this school for 2 years, and are already ran off. And this year, for the first time in my 20 years of having children, the school is asking parents to supply PE equipment on top of school supplies. You can't retain patient, compassionate teachers for our children. And you can't afford P.E/recess equipment for the kids. There's a bigger problem here.

This school's reviews have been disabled on Google. Am unable to warn others with public review there, and on Facebook page it's apparent that rose-colored reviews are scheduled on same days, multiple at a time from family, friends of, and employees of school. Years of deleted reviews on Facebook then, all at once, 10 positive reviews on the same day, conveniently timed at the end of school year to increase enrollment for upcoming year. Why would a school that has been in operation for 50 years change their name from "Bible Baptist School" to "Matthews Christian Academy" and rebrand if they had built a strong reputation in the community? We moved here and had enrolled when we found out. A family told us their kid was held back THREE TIMES and was a normal kid. They tried to boot our kid out of first grade half-way into the year despite having good grades on record at the time because they claimed that our 6 year old could not "sit still during instruction." Use letter grades to grade first graders which is unusual for age and assign several homework assignments daily, usually 3-5 differing assignments and tests. Noticed that many classmates were older and likely had been held back. Class size much higher than anticipated, over 20 children (22-24 range) for first grade with teacher and assistant although had advertised small class sizes. Only had resources to serve 20 students in next grade up because only had one teacher for second grade, meaning not every first grader was making the cut and ours was on that list, obviously wasn't a teacher's favorite. School is not operating in best interest of prospective families as they attempt to over-enroll first graders in scheme to gain more tuition funding. Few first graders will inevitably be failed or dismissed from school with very strict, anal retentive first grade teacher. Failed ones make more money for school in long run. First few grades are 24-15 students then taper off as grades go up, class sizes get to 5-7 by high school graduation showing their low retention. High teacher turnover. Over 80% students are international probably due to local reputation. Had costly extra assistance from outside school, unfortunately teacher, director and elementary coordinator had clear agenda against working with us as parents to help our kid. Will never enroll in another Christian school as a result. Terrible for our child's confidence. We are trying to repair as we move onto future educational endeavors. Please beware.