Lighthouse Montessori School

My son is a Kindergartner at North Beach and also attended Pre-K there. I honestly have only wonderful things to say about our experience.North Beach is a small school (around 300 students), which creates a strong, close-knit community. Just a few months into the school year, I knew most of the Kindergarten students and parents by name. A group of parents even runs a weekly “bike bus,” where kids ride bikes to school together. The PTA hosts several fun, well-attended events throughout the year such as the Harvest Carnival, Movie Night, and Culture Night. I got involved with the PTA early in the school year and have been really impressed by the level of parent engagement and commitment to supporting the school. The PTA also runs a robust after-school enrichment program with activities like chess club, basketball, theater, drawing, and more.Academically and socially, our son is thriving. We love his teacher, Mrs. Niemeyer. She sends a detailed weekly newsletter and regularly invites parents to volunteer in the classroom. She’s also been very clear about how our son is progressing with reading and math. We haven’t done a lot of reading practice at home, and very little math, but thanks to Mrs. Niemeyer’s teaching and the strong parent and volunteer involvement, his reading skills are developing right on track.We’ve been thrilled with our experience at North Beach and truly can’t imagine our family being anywhere else.

We switched to St Al‘s because our 1st grader struggled with reading in public school. St Als inspired reading provided a reading support annd phonics tools and lifted him up. He scored 98% percentile in improvement during the standard map score year after. Going to 3Rd grade he loves reading. Although it’s comics.This is not unique in st Als I learned of other parents who had simmilar improvements after switching in score and motivation.Before coming to st als despite having an other middle schooler I did not realize how important the principle is. Nick knows all children and Parents! So when there is something small to discuss I know I can catch him greeting people at drop off .We as a non religious household feel welcome and are fully integrated in the community. 50% describe them self as non catholic. Gym is pretty new and other specialty facilities alike since are modern. A Flip-side of a small class size with on class per grade is limited club offering.