St John Neumann School

This school used to be a good school but not anymore. More people leave the school every year, the classes are getting smaller. I had 3 kids in this school, my oldest stayed there from kinder to the end of 6th grade. The school used to have two classes with 21 or 22 kids per class, now the smaller grades only have 1 class. They don’t have enough kids to fill up two rooms. The rest of the grades have between 13 to 15 kids, which makes very hard for your kids to find a good set of friends or fit there. I decided to leave the school because I noticed I was wasting my money. I will always regret not to leave SJNCS even sooner, I could had enriched the live of my kids with the money I wasted in so many other ways. The kids at SJN are not more advanced than any other kid on public school even though the school emphasize that kids are a year or year an a half advance compare with other schools. False. When my son entered first grade, he was behind compare with those kids that came from public kindergarten. Worst of all, three more kids moved to 1st. grade from SJNCS there (that I know) and the three of them were placed on special programs to catch up with the grade. So sad. There is a lack of sports on this school, and the few they offer don’t provide good coaches. Most of the time coaches are parents that do it for the kids but not necessarily have any experience on that particular sport or any teaching experience on coaching. The last year we stayed there, the school started to offer music for middle school, not as regular course but as optional during their study time. The music they offered was liturgic which can be quite boring for a teenager so my son obviously stayed away from it. Last year however, he joined the Middle school band at the public school. The teacher took him under his wing, even though he was a year behind compare with the rest of the class. I was so excited to see him playing trumpet during the concerts. SJNCS is light-years behind to put a concert like that. Art on SJN is not that important either. There are not substitutes teachers, they use parents as a substitutes that have no experience on teaching, license or training for that matter. Worst of all, they normally use those parent that love to talk behind other people’s back so the privacy of your kids can be compromise. I found comments on Facebook from a substitute parent that was a little disturbing for me. For been a private school, the teachers are not much better than the ones on public, actually I found out after a year on public school, that teachers on public school are more committed and dedicated to teach the kids that those on SJNCS. My kids came home with tones of homework, some of this homework was not even explained in class so I found myself teaching my kids and expending 3 or 4 hours every day for homework. Sports or extra curriculum activities after school was not even on my mind. If you kids need special attention, SJNCS does not offer any special assistant for your kids, psychologist, support team programs or any kind of therapy either. If you a looking for good school that offer great education for your kids don’t waste your time and money here or you will regret it.

Be aware! People are leaving this school in big numbers. Some grades have only one class with few kids. This is not an opinion but a fact and a big red flag. Some of the teachers in this school are very mean, kids bring tones of homework. I found myself expending 3 to 4 hours with homework and going over material that the teacher did not cover in class. Because of it, my daughter was not able to do any extracurricular activities. Music (only liturgic) is not part of the curriculum only given as an option during study time. They have art once a week only. Only a few sports are offered. The school use parents as a substitutes that are not training or license. When I talked to the assistant principal and explained my concerns, she told me that religion in this school is more important than education, and It shows! Kids are not more advance in this school as they claimed. My daughter was on same level as the other kids in the new school and quite behind in math. The new principal doesn’t see to worry or concern about the problems in this school. It doesn’t look like this school is going to fix all their problems anytime soon.

SJN is not a very good school. Some of those teachers are very mean and do not teach the kids. My children come home with loads of homework that they do not even understand and that I have to teach to them.The discipline is so strict that the overall environment is oppressive. For example, during lunch time if the children are talking to loud they are punished by not having recess/play time. A school management is easly revealed by the courtesy & attention a person is given.The more money you give the more attention you get.Staff will smile to your face, then talk behind your back. This is a very small school, and the unchristian attitude of some staff and teachers has taken over the environment here

I am a 7 grader and I am so mad. This school was horrible They sent home homework without hardly teaching. The fun raiser money they kept to themselves. MY grade dropped and did not come up. The teachers were horrible. Also the principal got fired a few weeks ago. I am very displeased. I am very happy I left. 3 years was enough. I would not recomend this school.