American Leadership Academy-Coastal

Parents with shared custody should be very cautious before enrolling at ALA Coastal.

In my experience, ALA Coastal accepted and maintained enrollment paperwork submitted by one parent without first verifying that the enrolling parent had authority to make that school-placement decision unilaterally, despite joint legal custody being involved. Once the enrollment record existed, the school’s position became that removal or transfer would require a court order, transfer request, or other formal documentation — meaning the registration itself was effectively protected after the fact.

My concern is not simply that a paperwork error occurred. My concern is that the school’s process did not adequately protect both parents’ rights before creating or maintaining an enrollment record that had major legal and practical consequences. The registration records also contained factual inaccuracies, including a certification that no court order existed, and the school has still not fully resolved or corrected the record issues despite being placed on notice.

If your child has two involved parents in separate households, do not assume ALA Coastal will independently verify both parents’ authority before processing enrollment or continuation records. Based on my experience, parents should ask direct questions in writing before enrollment, including:

whether both legal custodians must consent
what custody documents the school requires
whether the school will verify legal authority before accepting registration
how the school handles disputed enrollment
and how quickly inaccurate student records will be corrected.

For families with no custody complexity, your experience may be different. But for shared-custody families, I would strongly caution parents to get clear written answers before trusting this school’s registration process. My experience has been deeply concerning.

Don’t listen to the negative reviews. Most a left extremists who want to force their views down your child’s throat. If your looking for a school that your tax dollars are paying for that you can actually send your child to school without critical race theory, glorifying socialism, gender pronoun confusion, and all the other left extremism then hopefully this school will prevail and actually teach subjects where kids are there to learn and not be groomed and indoctrinated into left extremism.

I see why this school rating is awful from personal experience this school lacks professional structure, safety for children and a healthy educational environment for children. Aimed lawsuits filed and complaints over the last year even the new principal she doesn't seem to care about covid and wants to run the school like flordia and we see how that's going. Also want to stop teaching certain subjects such as black history and etc due to Republican board members. Alot of parents are highly upset with this school and me being one of them. This is rated one of the worst schools in the United States don't send your kids here. My son is blessed and I stopped him from stepping foot in this school. He doesn't feel comfortable going here and I support him. I decided to invest in his education elsewhere.

Wish we never enrolled. New principal is awful. Teachers are not well trained. Online learning is watching videos, very little actual teaching

Please read and listen to the 400+ families who have already withdrawn from this school. Find the concerned parents page on Facebook.... Read the blog posts of Adrian Wood http://www.talesofaneducateddebutante.com/..... This school has negatively impacted many students by failing to uphold their promises of quality education.

Extremely disappointed. Very “green” teachers. My children are nowhere near where there peers from other schools are academically. Expect zero follow up from leadership if you have a concern. Definitely place your children elsewhere if you care about their education. This school is winging it every day. It really is a joke.

Please research this school before enrolling. Look up the school performance on state assessments (D rating with -11 Growth in 2018), read the parent comments on social media, and follow the blog Tales of an Educated Debutante. This school is failing to teach a well-balanced curriculum and does not differentiate to meet the needs of learners.

I wish there was an option for zero stars. I have never seen a worse run school. Top to bottom it is horrendous.

My child was in Kindergarten at CPA. She did not learn any sight words and could not read when she left. Her advanced Math skills were not being built upon as she was “learning” to count to 100- a skill she learned in prek. She was also tracing letters and numbers- also skills she learned in prek. We pulled her in Jan and she is excelling in her new school.

Horrible school, so much bullying and the teachers/staff refuse to do anything about it. 504/IEP discriminative. Please do not send your child here