Centre for Academic and Personal Excellence

One of the, if not, the worst school that I have ever sent my son to. The building looks like an old church. The gym is around 13 meters by 7 meters; its walls are bricks with forgotten rusty nails in them. My son fell into the unpadded brick wall head first and suffered from a concussion. This gym looks that it hasn't been renovated since the 1990’s. The basketball rims are broken and put upside down. Im only mentioning this to share the lack of professionalism and organization this school has. Cape school is the only school in Medicine Hat with a uniform policy. I heard the principle demand for the OLD UNIFORMS from the former students. She then attempted to sell them to the new students through Facebook (check the posts, seriously). Not only is she a COMPLETE CHEAPSKATE, but she is completely biased as well. My son got punched by her nephew in the face and wasn't punished at all. Instead my son got criticized for “Angering the student, who he should have known better because he is very emotional". The school struggles with disciplining the pupils. The education is poor. The classes are split into two, the A class and the B class. The A class consisted of students from grades 6,7, 8 and 9 while the B class consists of 8 and 9s. The B class takes THE GRADE 7 curriculum while the A class takes the grade 9 curriculum.When I was asked why that is so, I was told “Its just based of IQ and learning abilities and your son does not meet those standards; therefore he could not be in the A class”. My son was not even offered an IQ test when he first went to the school. Obviously her nephew and her son are in the A class even though I heard from a lot of pupils that they were not “the brightest people” in the world. Oh and did I mention that the principle and the superintendent taught the grade 9 class last year? The vice-principal is teaching the grade nines this year. Doesn’t it seem that nobody wants to work there? The school is obviously low on budget. For example, they have a team with no jerseys (they used pennies and scotch taped numbers on the back). On top of that, the only field trips they go to are to loins park and the esplanade (they had to walk cause they couldn't afford buses). The lack of organization and planning this school has amazes me. It blows my mind that a school with poor education, lack of organization, rude behaviour, bullying, and complete bias is still running. What fascinates me more is that parents are ACTUALLY sending their children there and paying extra fees for it. My son suffered from a few mental problems when he was sent to it. After he left, his illness started getting better. My question to the parents that are sending their child to ‘Centre of Academic and Personal Excellence’ is “What are you doing to your kids childhood? Do you want him/her to become an unsuccessful, uneducated human with lack of manners?” You are being robbed of your money. I would go to as far as saying that CAPE school is the equivalent of residential schools but in the 21 century.

I currently go to cape and it’s horrible. I was dress coded for my skirt being “ to short” even though I had knee high socks on and the skirt literally went to my shins. This one person who signs their name “gossip girl” keeps on writing horrible stuff on the bathroom floor and the school does NOTHING ABOUT IT Ok so I used to wear the hijab and my “friend” used to pull it down and laugh at me, so like last year this happened right in front of the teachers desk and SHE DID NOTHING she didn’t give her a yellow slip LITERALLY NOTHING. don’t send your child especially if they have disability,poc,or if they are religious

I’m enrolled at cape right now and it’s the best school I’ve ever been to! All my siblings go their and I’ve met the majority of my best friends ever their! The teachers are SUPER nice! I don’t believe all the bad things said about it.

As a former member of cape I can tell u that they do nothing about bulling. I was bullies for 3 years by the same person and nothing happened about it. The gym is so small, and everything is dirty. Nearly every gym class I had to go was my eye out because I got dust in it. And the teachers were mean. My gym class was made up off 4/5/6s so it got so cramped. From what I heard the basketball coach has no clue of what to do in 2018. Bet everyone misses last years coach. This year they had to duct tape numbers onto the jerseys, scroll down in these reviews and you will see a picture of it. It is recommend not to send your kid here.

Our kids have been at cape since kindergarten. They have loved every teacher they have had over the last 6 years. Great staff. They excel academically. Looking forward to moving into the new cape school come next year!!