St Peter Catholic School

3 of my kids have attended this school and loved it. The teachers are amazing and the new principal, is personable and connects directly with the kids, even remember them by name!

It has been okay with very little support to help a child who is advanced be challenged.

Westside Christian in Middleton is truly a wonderful school. The entire school experience has been such a blessing to our family. The teachers are extremely dedicated and the staff is loving and supportive. Lots of parent involvement. Excellent facility and great offereings for a small school. Every single day I am thrilled to take my child to this school, and my shy child is very happy going. The school has a sense of peace and order, but the classrooms and programs are vital and rich with high-quality activity, enriching academics, and affirming people. I have high standards for education and this school meets and exceeds at all levels. You will be very pleased with sending your kids here. Westside Christian also has an excellent preschool program for 3 and 4 yr olds.

We sent our kid for preschool there for a while, had a really horrible experience. The administration and leadership is very unprofessional and disrespectful. The school probably had some good days many years ago and had some good teachers, but had taken a sharp down turn in the recent time. Very early on (pre-pandemic) our kid was in the toddler room and had a good teacher, things seemed fine. Then our kid's teacher left the school, and it seems the principal changed too after pandemics. After pandemics we returned to the school, our kid was in the pre-school room had had some difficulty re-adjusting the classroom. We communicated many times with the school trying to figure out a way to help him after months of complete social isolation. But the school just want get the tuition with the easiest job possible, instead of doing what educators should do and help the kids. Basically they kicked my kid out after 2-weeks of new semester, telling us he probably has autism and need therapy, and they "as a Montessori school, are not equipped to help kids with such special needs". This is ridiculous--We researched and liked the philosophy of Montessori method, and Maria Montessori started the whole thing from working with kids with learning difficulty! Needless to say how stressful it was for us as parents. We scrambled to find another preschool (everywhere was full right after pandemic and you only get in after being in line for a long time-- that's probably why they can just quickly kickout students they dont want to make the effort for and right away fill the spots). Luckily in the end the new school was great, the teachers are very nurturing and professional. They told as after pandemics a lot of kids had social difficulties and they will work on it and learn--- Indeed my son did too, and he is thriving now. I should also mention because of that, we had my son evaluated by 2 independent clinicians, and they both concluded he does not have autism or learning disability. He had a language delay at that age which made communication a little harder in preschool (he's bilingual too), but with help it completely resolved. What this school did was discrimination based on perceived disability. Now in 1st grade in a public school my son is happy, friendly, well rounded. He is in advanced learning, having lots of friend, loving to go to school. He does not remember this experience at 3, but as a parent, I am still dramatized and enraged. Avoid this school at all cost!