Sunset Heights School

Very racist school, target minority!!!! Horrible school!

My child had a good experience here in preschool and early elementary school, but starting in upper elementary and middle school, something really seemed to go wrong. I'm not sure if it was necessarily the grade transitions or the constantly changing administration, but it appears to be the latter.They handle their lack of consistency and supervision by singling out kids who struggle. Once Dr. Dias or one of the principals decides your child is a problem, they are put under a microscope and are punished for any perceived transgression. I've been outright lied to about things he'd said and had the real story verified by classmates who did the same thing at the same time and did not get into trouble. I'd been assured that they would work with me on accommodating his learning disability, but after fourth grade was met with stonewalling and inconsistency. They would lie about dispensing his medication and rarely gave it to him despite knowing that it would affect his afternoon behavior and performance. Then complain about his afternoon behavior and performance. And one month after being told that everything was great and he was doing so well, suddenly they couldn't accommodate him anymore and after being there for his entire lifetime, and us spending over 100k on tuition since daycare, he was told to leave and couldn't even be bothered to tell him themselves. A couple weeks before he was asked to leave, Dr. Dias also told him how in public school nobody would care about him and he wouldn't be safe, and he had come home in tears. So great job, there. I also won't get into their computer security, but if you have children there, use a Windows machine and use the Family Safety feature with Microsoft Edge and block Chrome, because they neither provide sufficient supervision or sufficient network restrictions to protect your kids, and they don't want to hear any suggestions to the contrary.

We came to this school after K-3 in the Nashua public school systems and 1 year of homeschooling. My daughter started to dread going to school because of her experience with the Nashua public school systems. Her anxiety had become overwhelmingly bad. We decided after 1 year of homeschooling we needed to find a school where should could start loving school again. We decided to tour PMA and our daughter really liked it so we chose to go. The best choice we could have made. Our daughter has a 504 learning plan and does need a little extra help. Working with both teachers and admin as a team we were able to make sure that our daughter thrived at PMA. She began to love going to school everyday, she made a great group of friends and still has staff members who check up on her. She is now thriving in high school and she will tell you herself that PMA had a lot to do with it. The push for self advocacy, high expectations, sense of community and accountability have been some of our best takeaways. She goes to a really great high school now and its been commented many times that they can often tell which students come from PMA. They are often the most prepared and welcoming students. I will always be a huge advocate for PMA because of the wonders it had in changing the school dynamic for my daughter.