Center Grove School

Canfield is special. Thanks to parent participation guided by the wonderful Friends of Canfield organization, Canfield I provides a well-rounded education that goes way beyond the common core. Thanks to programs like art, gardening, p.e., drama, music and community circle the students receive a well rounded education that develops them as students and as people.

Staff is the best and goes above and beyond their role as educators. They genuinely care and are willing to do whatever it takes to help the students excel in every area, not just academically. The administration leads by example and students look up to them. Character building is top priority along with the best education possible. Wish every school was this good. Our daughter doesn't want to leave next year after 6th grade.

The daycare at the school is good, but the education once you enter the elementary school is very poor. The teachers aren't well trained and are unable to manage a classroom. I thought with a high teacher to student ratio that the education would be more individually focused, but because of the poor quality of the teaching staff that I and several other parents I know of experienced, the teachers are unable to handle anything other than students who sit quietly and don't move. If children as young as 4 or 5 can't sit and focus for hours on end they are punished and removed from the classroom. While some of the teachers may be emotionally supportive, others berate the children telling them that they're bad students, which destroys their self-esteem. The school refuses to acknowledge any wrong doing on the part of their teaching staff and instead engages in victim blaming.