Beacon Academy

Honestly the school is fine. Hamilton County schools are garbage. The city is more worried about spending money on anything but the schools and teachers. Staff are under paid over worked and frustrated enough to vent to the parents. The city is more concerned with building tourism infrastructure that is not needed, or becoming the first park city. All at the expense of our children. The people who run the city send their kids to private schools and simply don’t care about the peasants. If you children have a problem don’t expect help as the school psychologist work between multiple schools with way to many kids they are responsible for. Staff especially specialty fields are horrible under paid and leave as soon as they can find another job. I.E. special education, school psychologist, speech language pathologist, counselors, and social workers. If you decide to talk to the administrators or county board of education they will tell you whatever you want to hear as fast as possible just to end the conversation. Don’t expect to see any results though. I grew up here and often wondered why I moved back to have my family. My and your children would be served better elsewhere.

This school is really great it teaches a great education and pays attention to their students . Staff is so supportive

If your child is black or mixed avoid this school if you can. When major concerns are brought up nothing is done about it. No matter how much you complain and go off. Unfortunately this is the only school in this area for my kids and I wish it wasn’t. Instead of this town building new apartment buildings they need to build another school that’s diverse and is an actual anti bully school. I cry for my kids every day because of what they endure going here. My kids aren’t the only ones but I’m the one that doesn’t play about mine. I thought the principal was better than that but I was definitely wrong for thinking that. I should have known better. If I could remove my kids from Hamilton District completely I would.

My granddaughter goes to the lower school at Grace Baptist Academy, and it has been a wonderful school to support her academics, her social emotional needs, and her Christian foundational learning.She has been able to do many activities as a part of her school day including being on the cross-country team, the track team, and the volleyball team. In addition, she has participated in spelling bees that have access to national competitions and math, science and social studies. She has taken voice and piano lessons as a part of her school day, which has been convenient for her family.Her teachers have shown such compassion and are highly qualified with teacher methods and academically training students to be successful.The staff at the school, including the Director schools, the principal, the vice principal have shown true compassion to families and care and deep concern for the welfare of their students.We have had a wonderful experience a Grace Baptist Academy and would highly recommend the school to anyone.