Applewild School

Applewild falls short of its inflated reputation. I paid nearly 25K for my students to practice manners and be exposed to the arts. I should have invested my money in extra-curricular activities instead of enrolling my children. Family-style lunches, play-time, arts/culture are a plus, but many of the core classes lack innovation. The leaders of the school work hard to ingratiate themselves with parents, but their actions range from suspect to devious. They deny that they have a bullying problem despite the clear elitest attitudes of many at the school. As a family, we often felt subtly judged and at times my daughter and I were explicitly ostracized. There is one learning specialist for the entire school and no guidance or adjustment counselor. My son had an unqualified substitute for months. The school confuses volume of work with rigor (there were lots of worksheets, copying notes, and other low-level thinking assignments).