Private Schools

It's not for anybody

It's ethereal and beautiful

TAKE ME AWAY

This school is jokes

Great academics, arts and athletics. Love the school!

Raised in the home of an educator, and having attended both public and private schools in my own education, I was extra careful in choosing a school for my daughter. With the downward spiral in public education policy in recent years, I knew that public schools in New York were a risky proposition. When I set foot on the grounds of The Waldorf School of Garden City, there was an almost tangible sense that, to its core, this offered a different educational and developmental experience. My daughter already had a love of learning, and I am grateful that The Waldorf School preserves and promotes that by eschewing "teaching to the tests" and instead fostering the creativity and imagination of the students while celebrating the sense of discovery in learning. The ethos of the school is hugely important to me as well--students are exposed to the reality of spiritual diversity in the human community, not indoctrinated, and an organic type of tolerance, respect, and mutuality grows here. Not least of the school's charms is its camp in New Hampshire, called Camp Glenbrook. Starting at grade 3, classes spend a week at camp each year, and the school community also has the opportunities to retreat to the bucolic beauty of the camp in the summer and winter (Maple Sugaring Weekend is a favorite!). Regular presentations by the students to their schoolmates, to parents and visitors give Waldorf students a sense of confidence in public that students in public schools often lack. I could not recommend in stronger terms the quality and spirit of the educational experience offered at The Waldorf School of Garden City!

Our Lady Of Mercy is a blessing for our children to be apart of. The education and sports are excellent as well as the superior teachers who are not just knowledgeable but caring. 2018 Winner Bethpage Federal Credit Union Best Of Long Island Private School and Kindergarten Teacher. Congrats! Number 1.

This school is nurturing to my daughter and gives her a good Christian foundation. The school helped her go to the junior national young leadership conference in Washington dc and summer 2017 in Massachusetts

Para mi es una esperanza porque puedo Aprender más de nueras fe católica

Okay, having gone to this school for a very long time, I have a few things to say. First, something interesting I thought I might mention is that I've changed my review a few times over the years. Maybe by explaining why I can explain something about the nature of this school. The classes are excellent and the teachers actually teach their own course rather than teach the textbook. You learn things for the sake of learning, not for the tests. So, in terms of academics, this school does go above and beyond, but what LISG often misses the mark on is the social aspect of a healthy school experience. The school is small, which definitely helps in terms of academics, but can go very, very wrong in terms of social interaction. When I first entered the school, in maybe second or third grade, I enjoyed it a lot. There were these new people I could be friends with, the classes were finally a relief from the public school curriculum where I was stuck below my grade level, and the teachers seemed nice. Except, after a few years, everyone had their friend groups and I wasn't really in any of them. Thirty kids isn't many, so there weren't a huge amount of people I could meet for the first time and be friends with. Because LISG is a private school and I lived sort of far away, I rarely got to see the few friends I did make. Sure, I did activities in my hometown, and made friends from there, but there's nothing worse than being a nine or ten year old who spends seven hours a day in a school with no real sense of childhood. It sucked. Quite a few times, I thought about leaving the school, but stayed because of the education I was getting. Once I got older, things started to change a little bit. It'd been 5, 6, 7 years, and people were starting to reform in their friendgroups. Yes, for the most part everything stayed the same, but a few things shifted. I was no longer crushingly lonely. The small group of kids that had once kept me out of the social circle pushed me into it. I had people to study with, and school became actually a little bit enjoyable. If you can, send your kid to LISG. It's not perfect, but it's more than worth it.

This school is unprofessional and uncoordinated . The principal is malicious and there are a lot of problems with the school, one of which is the variety of sports in gym. All basketball no variety. More sports like soccer or something else. Also the new girl gym teacher is insensible and yells at people for no absolute reason and give no reasonable excuse for handing out in fractions of giving coordinated punishment.

Waste of tuition. Send your child elsewhere.

Great staff....awesome Principal. Caring environment. Children are provided a challenging curriculum.