Private Schools

Some of the students are ill-mannered and rude, but overall, it's a pretty good school.

Awesome school

High demanding in academic and behaviors. A great local private school, much better than public schools...

My daughter has been going to Heritage Montessori School for last 1.5 years. Her progress, both academic and personal, has been phenomenal. Thanks to Mr and Mrs Serafin for being very approachable, helpful and understanding. Excellent staff providing the best education. Thanks Heritage Montessori School.

This is an amazing program that helps Blind and visually impaired adults acieve independenence and their career goals whatever those goals might be. We work with each individual to learn what they need to learn in order to succeed at whatever they wich to accomplish. Personally I have learned so much and been able to overcome so many obsticles because of what I've learned here. Thank you F.B.C. :)

The director, Miss Katie, has a warm and welcoming vibe to her school, and we've been very happy with all the teachers we've had up to this point! Everyone is very communicative and friendly, and the school has fun events throughout the month like Parent's Night Out, holiday parties, and seasonal events. Last weekend they covered the parking lot with snow so our kiddos could experience what it feels like in the desert! We have been going to PCA for 2 years and our kiddo has loved all of his teachers. We highly recommend the director, Miss Katie and Phoenix Children's Academy Happy Valley!

We have struggled for years with our 9th grader and the special ed program at a local charter school. He's a bright kid...smart, curious, and eager to learn, and yet it's like something just wasn't clicking. He would spend hours on homework, still not complete it, and then still fail a test. We finally were able to place him in a private school due to a state scholarship program that provides funds when the public schools aren't meeting the needs. Faith was actually not our first choice...we didn't even know much about it. But when our first choice suddenly closed it's doors a month before school was supposed to start in 2014, we scrambled to find a new school. Faith not only accepted him with open arms, but within 2 weeks was giving us tools to help us figure out where the underlying problem was. As it turned out, our son is dyslexic but nobody at the public or charter schools ever even tested him for it, nor would they recognize it as a specific need after diagnosis. Through additional testing, we were able to learn the best ways for him to learn and were given a list of ideas and tools to better teach him. We met with Faith administration and teachers with these lists and they not only accepted them, but were almost excited to learn how to better teach our son. They have since even invited a leading dyslexia expert in our community to talk to all the teachers during an in-service day. The combination of classroom "tweaks", small class size, caring teachers and outside tutoring has not only caused our son to finally begin making progress with reading but has boosted his self esteem like we never expected. I have no doubt that the caring atmosphere created by the students and staff are one of the top contributors of our son's success. We moved our other two children there for the 2015 school year and could not be more grateful for this wonderful school!

Good for your kids

Mission Montessori on the Desert is a fantastic school! All 3 of our children started in the preschool program and thrived! We have 2 girls and 1 boy, each child has a unique personality, and different needs and strengths. Mission Montessori was an excellent choice for all of my children because the teachers allow the children to be independent. My children learned at their own pace, when they were interested in a topic (this is called a sensitive period), and with an appropriate amount of structure. My oldest is in 6th grade now and is still thriving! My younger children are in 3rd and 1st grade, sharing the same classroom, on the lower elementary classroom and thriving as well. Many people have a misconception that children in a Montessori school are wandering around all day. I can assure you, that is not the case. There is a purpose to everything the children do, even though many times the children (and even the parents) are unaware. For example, in preschool, the children learn fine motor skills but cutting and pasting pieces of paper, sewing large buttons to make bracelets, etc. They learn large motor skills by washing windows and chairs. Each of these "works" is taught and is executed in a way that children learn to setup, follow simple steps, do things in order from left to right (since we read left to right), and cleanup. The beauty of all of this is the children independently select the work they want to do from the large variety of options. So they are interested in the work they are doing and are learning in the process. When they reach kindergarten age, the children have workplans and they must complete academic work (math and language) before they move onto other works in the classroom. But the children select the order in which they complete the academic work, so they maintain their independence. If a child is ever struggling on how to proceed, the teacher will make appropriate suggestions. In addition to the classroom work, the children have gardening where they learn about natures and planting with thoughtful lessons and hands-on work (the children plant and harvest the garden.) This is our 8th year at Mission Montessori and I am still amazed each time I am in the classroom at how focused the children are and how much they quietly collaborate with each other. The older children take pride in helping the younger children. The teachers are caring, dedicated, knowledgable, and simply phenomenal. Each of my children is different and it was absolutely the right choice for all of them. They all excel in math and language and have a love of learning.

Sweet, small school that keeps my child safe, happy, and enriched. Ms. Dawn in Pre-K does a phenomenal job preparing kids for school in a fun and engaging classroom.