Private Schools

Everything Shirley said....So glad to have discovered CLASS

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There’s a lot of thots here — sth my friend heard the first day he went to school lolll

Montessori..I think...

I've been attending this school for 10 years and I'm graduating this year. The teachers are caring and compassionate, I have made friends here that I know that will last a lifetime. I couldn't have gone to a better school.

"Awesome. You never get super in trouble. You can find lots of friends there because all the kids are nice. All the teachers are nice too.” -8 year old student. My two kids cry if the have to miss a day for any reason. This is what school should look like.

Trinity Academy is an impressive Christian school in Portland, Oregon. I recently attended their Spring Fine Arts Night and thoroughly enjoyed their performances of music compositions and literary recitations both spiritual and secular. Their classical approach to education not only gives students a deep appreciation for compositions by Mozart and Bach but empowers them to create their own musical contributions. I was impressed to hear the students own complex compositions performed by a professional String Quartet. After their performance, the students proudly displayed their ceramic pottery and sketches. Bravo, Trinity Academy!

It's been four and a half years since I first dropped my infant son off with Katy and her teachers at PCA (it was called Kids Kastle at the time), and we have been so pleased with our experiences that I was shocked to see the negative comments on this site. Although the complaints are all old, I felt moved to share our experiences at PCA to offer some balance. I felt so vulnerable those first few months of leaving our first baby behind, but the infant room teachers (who are both still at PCA) are so calm, caring, and competent that the days and weeks quickly turned to months, and before we knew it our little one looked forward to being there (which made leaving him much easier). I was always amazed by the grace and wisdom of the teachers as well... if our first child rolled or crawled or walked for the first time at school, I never knew about it. I still don't. The director, Katy, is always available to us, responsive to concerns, involved in the everyday activities of the center, invested in the success of the teachers, and knows all the kids' names! We never considered any other option when our daughter was born in 2009, and we have had the same great experience with her days (years) at PCA. Each time our children have moved up to new classrooms, we have been so pleased with how the teachers quickly get to know them, support their learning styles, and work to give them the interpersonal skills they will use all their lives. I guess the best way to capture the last few years is simply to say that the team at PCA has helped us raise our children into the good people we want them to be, and for that we will be forever grateful. If your are considering PCA for your kid(s), Katy has my contact information and can put us in touch. :

i will all ways be a viking!!!!!

I went here a couple months a go, you should know my sister, ANNA, ADEN

Great school

Wow! This school actually lives out its mission statement ! This is an excellent atmosphere, which can be rare in Christian schools today, because it embodies both, solid- truth content with a standard, as well as genuine grace. It is refreshing to see a healthy balance lived out in a school setting. The unique half-day, 8-noon, M-Fri. model is a finance-saver as well as a practical time asset. It allows children to be a part of extra activities after school, such as speech club , swimming, skiing. etc, or serving in their community; all with margin leftover for childhood fun. Their 1-2 hours of homework is so do-able for their schedules. They take pride in owning their own work, since it is so well laid-out and organized for them by their teachers. Children are set up to succeed. Great field trips fuel the excitement too; 5/6th loved the art museum and 3rd/4th were enamored with the rock museum. As a former public school teacher for 15 years and homeschooling mom of classical curriculum for 6 years, I have critiqued the classes/conduct of these children and found them to be genuinely honorable, admirable, academically unmatched, and simply just appealing to be around. There is undoubtedly enthusiastic evidence of both, truth and love. Teachers here are, competent, consistent, and compassionate in their effort to support parents training children up in the admonition of the Lord. It is refreshing to see kids be set free to learn; experiencing joy in the classical classroom. Gregarious, belly-gut laughter can be heard in their morning recitations. The respect throughout the school is magnetic. Recess is the most "telling" of all, as that is when a person can see the true character of a child, plus the principles he/she has been taught, in use, by choice. Show me any other school where 6th grade boys play self-controlled and kindly with kindergartners, all of their own volition. May our Holy God lavishingly pour his blessings on Paideia, as only He can. May zealous "Paideians" shine like stars, piercing the darkness with light, in both their private and public lives for for all this generation to witness ! And...may whoever reads this, come observe for yourself .

I went to school there and I was one of the teen girls that got really bad frost bite.i was left in the woods for a whole week and made to hike every day till I couldn't walk anymore. I had to be carried to the car and brought back to their office in bend or. Instead of the hospital. They put me in a room for 8 hours in extreme heat to thaw out (as they said) made me take a burning hot shower against my will. I turned so many different colors u would think I was a Gothic rainbow. Finally after my screams and continued tears and asking for my dad they brought me to the hospital. I was 5'9" weighing about 79-85 pounds when I was in the hospital. I was in a wheelchair for 6 months had to learn how to walk again. I had a lawsuit going but when my dad past away they closed my case. My feet are in extreme pain all the time . Especially if it rains. I have no pain management. I lost everything I was because of that school and when we were about to settle my case my dad past and I got nothing. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. THIS EFFECTS MY DAILY LIFE I HAVE TO CALL OUTTA WORK SOMETIMEs. My boyfriend has to carry me to the restroom to go pee because I can't walk sometimes. I cry like a baby. This happened when I was 13 in Jan of 2002 and I'm 28 now and the pain is getting worse not better. My dad paid them money for me to go their and they were to cheap to provide the right gear for being out in the wilderness.

Friends rave about this school to me. Really impressed with the middle school IB program.

My oldest boy finished 8 years at St. Francis of Assisi School and recently finished his first year in high school with great success academically, socially and in sports. I've currently got two more kids at St. Francis and they enjoy the attention that comes with smaller sized classes. Great school.