The Academy for Technology and the Classics

We happy to invite you and your children to our school to get to know our students and staff. Our Mission is to Serve the whole child, Foster a Christian worldview within each student, Cultivate a Christ-Like character in the student body, and encourage all students to Achieve academic excellence. We enroll year-round and welcome you to come and visit us!

I want to commend Santo Nino for a fantastic 3rd grade. The instruction my child received was wonderful, the curriculum rigorous and excellent. The classroom control was beautiful with all the students learning to be a team and excel.4th grade was the polar opposite. So I pulled my child out halfway through the second semester and just let the money go. I decided keeping my child in would be falling into the “Sunk-Cost Fallacy”.The instruction was non-existent. Apparently, the planned 4th grade teacher passed away before the school year and the very nice religion instructor stepped in to act as a substitute. And as with many substitutes it is often not the best instruction. As near as I could tell, this was a case of no instruction and just play time interspersed with constant IXL testing. This is a critical point, I think. IXL is not a substitute for in-person or even online instruction. And we were indeed paying for in-person instruction. At the halfway point through second semester my child tested the same in a third party placement exam as they did at the end of 3rd grade which would imply they had learned nothing. And based on our conversations and their frustrations this seems accurate.In addition to this failed time of instruction, the substitute was lax and paid little attention to the children. This allowed bullying to take on new levels and include assaults with physical items and things bordering on sexual assault. The school’s response with the first instance was adequate, the second similar, but by the midway point in second semester they seemed so short staffed as to just be glad the school hadn’t actually burned down and were doing nothing to improve the classroom environment.Again, 3rd grade was wonderful. 4th grade was not. If they get their act together for 4th grade in the future it might be a good place. For us, and many other families (we were not the only ones to pull our child out), it was not. So caveat emptor, and make sure you pay very good attention to the environment as you consider this school.

The teachers are really kind.It is a really cool school.I recommend this school.