Blackwood Elementary School

This school is NOT diverse, very old fashion, and not tuned with today's world. No Asian teachers, one Black teacher, No Spanish teachers. Mainly all white staff. When I had an issue they spoke to me rude and condescending because I'm Spanish. I would do research before moving to this town. My kid hates this school and it's sad because he is only in Kindergarten. He really miss his old school he cries every morning to go back to his old school. My kid also love giving hugs and he was told to keep his hands to himself because Covid. He came home so sad he really lost his excitement for school.

I was in this school till i was in this till second grade and it was terrible! I was reading some reviews saying how good it is but trust me i was there and it wasn't trust me. Lets start with the teachers, they don't care for their students, my second grade teacher was just straight up rude I mean like come on! She would let her problems out on us and yell at us even when we did nothing wrong and my first grade teacher didn't really speak English!! AT this point the hire anybody who says the have a degree. Only my kindergarten teacher truly cared for her students. The food is horrible, I found a bone in my chicken sandwich and it was still frozen. Now about the students, they don't learn anything there i mean lets be honest i learned my times table when i was in the third grade your suppose to lean it when you'r in first. Please do not send your children here I beg you

We chose this school because of the Sister who was here years ago. Since then, the principal and faculty has changed and the school is not great. If I could talk to all incoming parents I would tell them the school was great back 10 years ago but not any longer as it is in need of a huge revamp. I believe the old administration at the school actually would remove and suspend dangerous/super disrespectful kids, but thats not the case since these days and unfortunately the good kids suffer. Please look into other private schools in the area because I don’t believe many of the kids/families are here for the “Catholic School”, but rather many were thrown out of other schools and the parents instead of putting them in a behavior program, put them here. It’s sad, the principal should be referring these kids to specific behavioral programs to benefit them, not putting the pressure on teachers to deal with kids who have severe behavioral issues. I am hearing this moreso with respect to students who came in 2020 and beyond and were admitted by new principal.