Mount Pleasant High School

This marks the second year my son has been enrolled at this school, and we've witnessed significant shifts in personnel, from the principal to several teachers previously criticized in unfavorable reviews.The incoming principal is driven by a genuine desire for improvement and is confronting the tough decisions inherent to the role. A newly established parent council is actively contributing to much-needed reforms within the school. I'm optimistic about the direction in which the school is moving under this new leadership.As my son approaches his transition to middle school next year, I'm encouraged by the positive developments at this institution. Despite its smaller size, the school proactively supports its students before academic challenges become unmanageable, showing a real commitment to their overall well-being.

Disheartened experience. Our child attended the schools preschool program and had the absolute worst experience from day 1. The staff and educators have decades of experience but have failed to receive any meaningful training to truly address students social/emotional learning which is desperately needed since covid. The school reads a couple of stories and has one lesson but nothing beyond. The school is quick to identify issues (with handwritten notes to parents asking them to do something or for their “suggestions”) but does not have the training, resources or qualifications to help connect or create a plan of action for the student, teacher and family. The school outsources consultants for this but is slow to pay or utilize them. Our child had developed severe anxiety bc of this school as our child was ignored many times during the school day as the educators lacked the ability to provide support and understand how to help. Our child spent many evenings crying and struggling to sleep at night. Further, it was really gut wrenching to hear that the educators did not know our child and did not connect with our child during the time enrolled stating that our child only shared one story from home. Since leaving, our child has flourished at another program where the entire staff knew our child, our child’s many stories and who our child really is. It took a while to rebuild the confidence this school took. Unfortunately at a catholic school, you can only go as far as the principal and in our case the principal was unwilling to address or talk through any of our concerns and made us feel like we were wasting her time. I do not recommend this early education program. If you look at the public schools missions and strategic goals - social and emotional needs are a high priority as this is what they are seeing with kids today. If the educators spent time looking at how many notes they send home they might be able to see a trend and adjust their curriculum to the times of today. There is too much focus on just academics and not the the student as a whole.

This school is simply excellent. I strongly recommend it as the faculty are dedicated, the overall environment is very positive, and the community is strong. My child has made many friends and really enjoys St. Pius V. The school hosts a strong array of activities and really tries hard to get parents involved. Its a diverse environment too. Tuition is affordable. I can't say enough good things about the academic support. The most recent 8th grade class sent students to many competitive high schools (Classical, LaSalle, etc.) Oh, there are volunteers from Providence College at the school too. There is a high degree of energy at this school... its a good spot for your child.

To be quite frank I hate writing reviews but this school is so bad I felt it was almost a civic duty to write this. The school fails on multiple levels from quality of education to structure and design its basically a slave factory... they also don't even professionalism to pull parents aside and talk about issues they will lay into you in the courtyard... the real nail in the coffin for me was the fact that I was paying for my kid to receive bad education like I'm paying for my child to be behind why would I do that very depressing that this was the outcome.