Private Schools

the school rocks!

As a former student and graduate of this school(class of 2016), I can say that my time at HSCS not only allowed me to succeed as a student, but it also allowed me to grow as a person. I entered HSCS as a person who would stay by themselves and do all of their work without interacting with the other kids. As time passed, I began to realize that I would need to step up and be one of the leaders in order to be the role model that my fellow students could look up to. Before I knew it, I had not only succeeded in becoming a leader, but I also managed to add my name to the list of students who had the honor of graduating from HSCS. I wanted to share my experience to say this: if I could be successful and graduate, then anyone can graduate from this school. It isn't an easy thing to do, and some of the things that the teachers believe in can possibly leave you confused or in disagreement. But if you can be patient and stick with the school during the tough times, then the things that you'll learn will benefit you for the rest of your life.

Great academy

Wonderful church family and loving pastor. Highly recommend attending church with this precious church family.

They ain't got no cow sauce

I love this Church

I went to school here and I go to Church at St. Mary's right next door. it's a lovely little place and so easy to make yourself at home in this intimate, God-fearing community

The staff are always friendly and welcome you with open arms along with the parishioners and the priest. The parents of the other students and the students in sales are very nice loving and eager to lend a helping hand.

Great school with individualized attention for each student.

I am very disappointed in the Montessori School of Jonesboro. According to their philosophy, "The teachers are trained to deal with each child individually..." However, this is not true. My child attended the Byrd House as he started at the age of 2. His main teacher was not trained to deal with each child individually. Any child that broke the mold of conformity was basically a problem in her eyes. My 2 year old, is not made to sit still and be quiet all day. In fact, he has attended other programs with no issue. I decided to remove him from the program after he was able to pull a fire alarm by stepping onto a chair, and then a table, where he actually could have been hurt. My question was "How could he pull a fire alarm without being seen, if he was actually being watched by the teacher?" She often had negative things to say about him, and the school took no responsibility for this happening. At the young age of 2, my child does not even know what the fire alarm is or does. I am sure it was very enticing to my little explorer, to see a big red button on the wall. Instead of taking responsibility a 2 year old was blamed. Furthermore, he had been bitten by another child on 3 different occasions. Two of the times happened back to back, and at that time I had started to question if they were actually watching my child. Their student-teacher ratio is too high for them to actually be working with the children individually. I am a teacher myself, and I would not choose to have 28, two-three year old children in a classroom with only 2 teachers. They say that there are 3 teachers, but one stays in the restroom to help with potty training and cannot be actually watching children in other rooms. We chose the Montessori school because we have had family members attend there as children and love it! But, things have changed and it is not the same. Once the main teacher sees that your child has a personality, she will do everything in her power to try and get that child removed to make her job easier. If you are not a doctor or lawyer, I would not suggest this school for your child. It breaks my heart because the owner seems to be a very kind, caring lady, but there is a disconnect somewhere between the methods she seemed to believe in, and the actual methods that are used.

Went here as a kid and it was great