Trafford El School

All Norwin elementary schools have a lottery system set up where you have to “win” full day kindergarten. Some of the kids (I think I remember a 30% statistic) receive half day kindergarten. They make this choice based on which kids get highest the scores on their entry test. Basically, if you’ve sent your kid to a good preschool, get ready to pay for another year of half days. That’s bad enough on it’s own, but because they can’t bus the half day kindergarteners in the middle of the day, all of kindergarten is only allowed one way transportation. You have to pick your kid up from school every day at 3:25pm. The car line takes approximately 20 minutes to sit through. And this isn’t a one time event. Every kid who goes into kindergarten must be picked up, so if you have multiple small kids who are entering kindergarten several years apart, you’ll have to pick them all up each year you have a child enrolled in Kindergarten. It’s prevented me from going back to work for a year longer than I thought I’d have to wait, and I’m not sure what I’ll do when my son goes to Kindergarten. We’re trying to move out of the school district. If you think you’re going to change it, Kindergarten is not compulsory in PA, and bussing is considered a privilege. I’ve already looked up my rights. I don’t have any recourse beyond warning other parents.

My child has been attending this school for the last 4 years and our experience has been wonderful. The teachers here are so kind and helpful with the students. They have a great PTO program that does so many fun things for the kids throughout the school year. All of the teachers my son has had have been very responsive to any questions or concerns I had. The principal is great! I cannot recommend this school enough.

The teachers there are great. They work diligently to help prepare your child for the next grade. My daughter came from one of the top private grade schools in the country and she fit right in. They had the write curriculum for my daughter because they were both advanced. The third grade teacher Mrs. Casper is amazing and the principal is great

The only reason our family was sad to move out of the state was because of Praise Christian Academy. Our family loved this school! All of the teachers and staff are incredible! As far as academics... our children were greatly prepared for their new school adventure. Our daughter has excellent grades at her new school and our son recently received his acceptance letter to a private school that only accepts a very small amount of students. He was one of the few students that was academically prepared. Our family can't thank PCA enough!

Used to work here. Do not do it unless if you want to hate your life. Administration is not supportive or helpful when people are in need. It’s a joke. Anything the school does is for show and it’s a mess behind the scenes.