Private Schools

Newbridge is an exceptional school that creates a caring, nurturing and safe environment to support and encourage each child to reach their maximum potential. Newbridge enables children to learn strategies that can be used through out their lifetime. This is accomplished by a small student-teacher ratio with specialty support (e.g. speech therapy and occupational therapy) and more importantly by the culture of the school leadership. My daughter learned how to tie her shoes in second grade to learning strategies she utilizes in high school that enables her to excel and be in the top tier of her public charter high school. We attribute her success to the foundation she received at Newbridge and her diligent hard work.

Both my 3 year old and 6 year old attend Legacy. We love the school a lot. My older daughter went to two other famous preschools before including Mission Bay Montessori. I feel Legacy is the best of all. I am truly impressed by the high quality of the teachers. They are very caring and loving. There are strong bonding between the teacher and the kids. Very strong in acdemia. My 3 year old started to read her first book last week! My older daugter is learning the stuff which is taught to grade 3 or 4 students at public school. The tuiton is very reasonable. Very effecvtive communication between the teachers and the parents. I am really happy for my girls since I know they are in good hands.

Our daughter LOVES Country Montessori School. We moved here from the Bay Area just under a year ago. It was a big transition for our 4 year old. Her teachers, Mrs. West and Ms. Bohn, have been so instrumental in helping her adjust to a new school, new rules, and new friends. She has grown so much as a result of their nurturing and support. In our car rides home my daughter would sing all the songs she is learning in Spanish class (thank you Maestra Salas!) Our daughter absolutely LOVES her music teacher Mr. Short. The Spring Fling event was by far and away the coolest school event we've ever attended. Excellent teachers, clean facility, and awesome school.

I've been with BASIS for 3 years, and here is my opinion: The curriculum is far more advanced or intensive than any other school I have seen or known. The teachers try their best to help out struggling students, and their specialization in their subjects allows them to easily ease any confusing areas. Especially recently, BASIS has started getting rid of some lower quality teachers and replacing them with higher qualities ones, something which just about all students can support. The only problems I really have with BASIS are non-curriculum/teaching based, i.e. the building... those are minor anyways. But we really only come to BASIS only for the curriculum. Note: There are so many people at BASIS who complain about “stress,” which I fail to see a reason to. The main source of homework problems is not that there is too much, but rather people just don’t do it until right before they sleep. As far as I know, the majority of people who complain about homework just stay up till 1 browsing Snapchat or watching TV. If people choose to put no effort into their work, they can leave. Everyone else is perfectly fine with that. But it gives them no justification to complain about homework loads. -Salty Minty

Best school

The best experience! This was a great program for me! Thank you Parkridge!

So far this school offers exactly what s advertised on the website. Small class Skilled educated teachers. Strong parent presence. My daughter is so happy to have joined this school after 4 years attending another private school close by, where the teachers were lacking teaching experience. The kids are happy friendly and the school principle has many years of experience. field trips and hands on learning. A lot to offer

My experience, with Basis as my new school for my daughter, has been very positive. My daughter comes home bursting with new information and new things she wants to learn. She has created a set of very nice friends there, who share similar values as my family. Her love for learning is alive and well and I really have Basis to thank for bringing that back into my daughter's school life. It isn't about memorization and test scores, it is about stimulating children's minds and making them so eager to learn that the test scores are high but very secondary to the purpose of the education. I am glad we made the shift. A few standout things: 1) They are not just a zero tolerance on bullying in words, but in action. They have bully experts as part of their staff. 2) Their teachers teach from just the subject matter in which the teacher loves and is passionate about and has in depth knowledge about. Long gone are the days of asking one single teacher to teach all topics. I love the method of a subject matter expert teaching. Those teachers teach from the heart and soul about what they love. 3) The administration is easy to reach. There is no barrier to reach them. Call and see. It is really that easy. 4) The 2nd report card: The school does an academic report card and a social report card that looks at the student's whole being, not just academically. This helps identify things like stress factors, behavioral norms, and gives the parent(s) an opportunity to see the child's emotional well being too. Every school has things that aren't what you want exactly, Basis has those but they are all so minor like busing schedule that it seems petty to even mention them. I am so glad to be a member of the Basis community.

My daughter started pre-kinder last year and we've had a great experience. Can't wait to start Kinder this year. Teachers are great, small class sizes, affordable and care until 6:30pm.

Talk about innovative creative learning. Those kids are the leaders of the future. Not the “text book structured” followers…

The music teacher Mrs. No is the best teacher I've ever had, she's amazing!

I think this school is the best. I was having trouble with GG. School District and didn't know what to ,we came across page by accident went in spoke with the director she was very helpful. I am a single mother on a fixed income she works with me but the most important I have seen such improvement in my son he now loves going to school and is enjoying reading he doesn't fight me on doing his homework

Beautiful school, would reccomend it!

Excellent alternative high school with caring and responsive staff and adminstration