Jones Elementary School

This was my sons first year (4K) at SCJ. I was nervous as a parent not sure of what to expect but I soon found out that I had nothing to worry about. I loved his Teacher and so did my son the kids were great and I'm proud to say I love SCJ:)

5th grade teacher is very condescending, ignoring the minorities needs, and is abusing power.

Great school for academics. Students can excel to their abilities and are not held to the pace of the entire class as a whole.

I am so impressed with the way that behavioral challenges which is something that society is met with everywhere and everyday is handled here. Renaissance offers such a reflective, responsive, and intentional approach on each individual situation and is always evolving to find new ways to meet scholars needs. Each situation when brought to administrations attention is handled with such care, thought, and thoroughness which is something you don't often see. It is impressive that their motto this year of "Being the Bean" is encompassed even behind the scenes as they show that in the midst of adversity, you can change your environment by being positive and having Growth Mindset rather than being an egg and becoming hardened to your environment or being the carrot and becoming weak to your environment. The analogies that help to put life into perspective and make scholars stronger each and every day is admirable to say the very least. It cannot be easy to be doing the very best every single day and ensuring scholars have the best education possible and are exposed to such significant character growth all while working with difficult situations but Renaissance does this with ease. Kudos to you Renaissance! It is my prayer, hope, and dream that everyone sees everyday that strength in numbers and having the Growth Mindset that you teach is the way to make the world a better place! Thank you for all that you do!!

Leadership at this school is very resistant to change. Same events are held every year - even the food is the same year in and year out. Children attend mass once a week - but the mass setting is geared to adults not children.

I was a previous student of this school throughout kindergarten and part of middle school, but I had to leave quarter way through the year due to how horrible the schooling was. I do not have many problems with the elementary/kindergarten despite that they clearly don’t do background checks on the staff, but I have many with the middle school. First off, everyone there including students are heavy Christians that are obviously homophobic/transphobic and are possibly racist to Asians, they also do not put much effort into preventing bullying. I was bullied to the point of severe depression and the school did absolutely nothing besides blame me when I stood up for a friend who was insulted. My original review was in much more detail however it’s been deleted so I’ll sum everything up. My teenage friend didn’t know who Hitler nor other important things were. They yell insulting Christian remarks if you’re homosexual or have a different opinion than them despite if you’re in a different religion (like me) or an atheist (like my friends). The lunch lady is most likely unlicensed and has served raw and uncooked meat to students before and goopy milk. Save your money because this school is NOT worth it with the price you need to pay.