Grace Park El School

I have 3 kids currently at Notre Dame de Lourdes, and I have been thrilled with the school! The teachers are fantastic, they engage the students and you can tell they love their jobs. Both the teachers and students have adapted well to virtual learning when needed. My children are thriving with the smaller class sizes, since they are receiving more individualized attention. The school community is caring and welcoming, and really feels like a family. There are many extracurricular activities and opportunities for the kids to be involved. I feel confident that my kids will be prepared for high school and beyond. I am very happy with the school, and glad that I chose to send my kids to NDDL.

Our children are 8 and 10, and love Mother of Providence School. We briefly left due to moving to the area for the high caliber public school district. We returned to Mother of Providence after the children begged to go back. They love the school, teachers and their friends. Per neighbors, the academic expectations of the school exceed that of our local public school. Our children participate in music, sports, the school play, honors math and a supplemental science program. Counselors and reading support are available as needed.

I'll leave the review I wish I had read before choosing this daycare center. My husband and I chose Kehillah based on keystone stars, thinking that if a center had 4 keystone stars, it had to meet a specific standard of care that would worth paying more for. Our child spent 3 years at the center, and each year gave us more reason to consider leaving but by the time we began looking for a new daycare, the waiting lists were already full elsewhere. The infant rooms were pretty disorganized and all of the staff have since left. There were multiple occasions where we realized my child didn't have any liquids their entire day and at least once where the milk I brought in was still sitting in the fridge at the end of the day. The second cause for concern was a parent association meeting that was absolutely packed with over 30 parents voicing similarly alarming concerns. In the three years our child was at the center, there had been three different directors. In the older toddler room, we went through three lead teachers within the first few months of our time there. When we took our child out of the daycare for the most recent summer we came back to find that they had forgotten to hold a spot for us, which we paid a deposit for, and they placed our child with a completely different group of younger children. Instead of owning up to the mistake, the first response we were given was that this was intentional because our child needed to be developmentally reassessed. It later came to light through the director that there is no assessment given to any of the children to "move on"-- this was just an excuse given to cover a clerical error by another staff member.All that being said, there are teachers here who are genuinely great people and really seem to try to do what's best for the children. The facilities are amazing but at the end of the day, you have to trust the people who are watching your kid. It struck us that this was a top down problem with the organization as a whole.