We've been at Brighton for five years after coming from public school, and our experience has been…read morewonderful. With 3 kids who have spanned the range if preschool, elementary, and middle school, I can say the middle school especially has exceeded expectations. Initially, I was nervous because of its smaller size, but it's been fabulous, the teachers embrace the middle school years while preparing students for real-world situations. We've had the honor of having both Ms. Shippers and Ms. Savage twice. Ms. Shippers has years of experience yet brings fresh enthusiasm every day, and Ms. Savage's connection with the kids is remarkable. Brighton truly offers a nurturing, dynamic environment we're so grateful for!

Brighton School is wonderful and we love it!!!!!…read more I've had my kids at Brighton for at least eleven years? I've lose count. My son attended Brighton from first through eighth grade and my daughter started in preschool and is now in sixth grade. My kids are completely different and they have both absolutely thrived at Brighton. Brighton does an awesome job of providing an excellent well-rounded education for many different types of learners and kids. Brighton offers an excellent academic program, but also offers an amazing drama program with Mr. DC, some great sports programs, after school extracurriculars, yearly overnight field trips that get longer with each grade level and culminate in a 10 day East Coast trip for the 8th graders, etc. The greatest asset to Brighton is its staff. Brighton attracts some truly talented, caring and highly invested staff and teachers. There are teachers at Brighton who have truly changed the course of my childrens' lives. Ms. (formerly Gabriel) Savage is my daughter's idol. Ms. Savage is the perfect role model for my child, as she is strong, confident, smart, kind and encouraging. My daughter is a gymnast and she has talked to my daughter about mental blocks. She is a great teacher but she clearly cares about her students in a way that goes beyond what her job requires. Her assistant Ms. Carrie is also so caring, patient and kind. Ms. Durbin is another teacher that made a real difference in my daughter's life. Ms. Durbin was like a second mother to my daughter, or my daughter's stand-in mother at school. My daughter has always had a ton of anxiety about overnight field trips, but knowing that Ms. Durbin would be on the field trip always made her feel better. Ms. Durbin knew when to be serious and get the class under control but could also be so silly and have fun with the class. Mr. DiLorenzo is another incredible asset to the Brighton community. Mr. D. was my child's third grade teacher, and he was an incredibly gifted educator then, and now he is the head of the middle school. Mr. D. can be so fun and silly with the kids, but he also knows when to be serious and address serious issues. My son had an awesome middle school experience at Brighton and during his years there built up a community of friends who carried over into the same high school. Ms. Livingston has been serving the Brighton middle school for years in various capacities and she is AMAZING!!!! She is currently teaching math and she is an awesome math teacher, but she also handles a lot of the administrative stuff for the middle school. She's very friendly, great with the kids, great with the parents, and easy to get along with. Ms. Bodnar, according to my 17 year old son, is "the GOAT" (greatest of all time). Ms. Bodnar teachers study skills and math (I think) but she connects with the kids in a way that few others do. My son emphatically thinks that she is the best teacher at Brighton. Ms. Thaler is also a great language arts teacher. She definitely knows what she is doing and I appreciate that she actually challenges the kids. This is Ms. Parks Lobbs' first year as Head of School, but she has been involved with other parts of the school for years and she appears to be 100% in charge of what is happening and in control of things. As a very long-time parent of Brighton who has observed three separate Heads of School, I think Ms. Parks Lobb is doing a great job. There are a lot of other amazing staff members at Brighton who I am going to forget to mention. We love Coach Matt, who is the kindest, funniest guy to have around. He always greets my daughter in the morning with the biggest smile and it makes me feel so good about dropping her off. He also love Coach Brandon, who has been there for years and is super well loved by all the kids. He made the summer camp a blast for my daughter. We really loved Ms. Becca, who is a former aide who is no longer there. We wish the school brought her back. My son had Ms. Schippers for both hers and his first year at Brighton (first grade) and she made him feel super welcome and safe. I don't remember the full names of my daughter's pre-K teacher and aide (the aide was Sarah) but they were both so amazing! Oh yeah, the parents, kids and community at Brighton are also awesome. Both my kids have made amazing friends and we have done all the playdates, the sleepovers, the skate nights (thanks, PTO!), all of it. My son has friends he literally made in FIRST GRADE and now are JUNIORS in high school and they are part of the same friend group and in some of the same advanced classes. My daughter and her best friends met years ago, some as far back as preschool. I've known those parents just as long. The parents are great and the PTO is currently thriving. I've never been involved in the PTO, but I am very, very grateful for the amazing parents who run it and all that they do. Best money we ever spent!

The Clearwater School is a true testament to the values of diversity, inclusion, and community…read more Within a year of being there, my 8-year-old son (then six), who had never before felt comfortable in social groups outside his family, began calling this place his second home. He was given the time and space to build relationships with staff and other students at his own pace, always supported but never rushed. Children at Clearwater learn what they are interested in, developing one of the most valuable lifelong skills--how to learn. Through observation and thoughtful discussions with students, staff, and family, my son has deepened his understanding of people, the world around him, and, most importantly, himself. In his two years at Clearwater, he has learned to navigate conflicts through the Justice Committee, advocate for his needs through the democratic process, and appreciate the significance of friendship, culture, and responsibility within a community. And along the way, he has also learned to read, perform arithmetic, estimate probability and statistics, and explore physics through hands-on construction. He loves drawing, music, and the logic of computer programming--all interests that have flourished in an environment where curiosity is nurtured. I am incredibly grateful for the existence of this school and the role it plays in my son's life--and in our family's life.

Our kids have been at Clearwater for the past six years. We love that they are empowered to be…read moretheir authentic selves, have time to pursue their interests, learn to advocate for themselves and what is right AND get to be on a beautiful, large campus that they are working together to restore. The mixed ages were a concern for us at first, but our experience has been that it creates a beautiful caring community that accommodates different ages and abilities. We love the staff (most have been there for over 5 years) and our kids are thriving!

i am bored at work and looked and boom here is my high school. i graduated in 06' and haven't…read morelooked back. i have nothing bad to say about the school the auto class was amazing and ahead of all the other surrounding schools. its a school, i would have no problems with my future kids attending here.

I was the first person to review this dumpster fire of a school, back when I was 13. I'm 15 now,…read moreand I've moved on to high school, so I figured I'd make this retrospective review again, now that I've left. I've stopped caring about people cursing so much. I also stopped having emotional breakdowns. I think the reason I cared in the first place was that I grew up in a family where cursing wasn't allowed, so the people doing it so much felt to me like they were anarchists who loved breaking the rules. I've since gotten thicker skin to shield these cursing breakdowns I used to have. But something I now DO care about is how stupid the assignments and grades and stuff are. This isn't just a problem at this school; it's more of a problem in most schools around the country. But the curriculum is so broken. We just spend hours memorizing facts to spit back out when we take the test. We memorize a bunch of facts, recite that information on tests, and then forget it, so we can memorize more information to recite on tests, and then forget it, so we can memorize more information to recite on tests, and then forget it, SO WE CAN MEMORIZE MORE INFORMATION TO RECITE - ok, I think you get it. We always tell our teachers and parents that a lot of the things we learn in school will never help us in the future. What they always say in response is something along the lines of, "Yeah, you may not need it. But you DO need to learn how to learn." Oh, so you call sitting in chairs super neatly put into grid-like formations, writing down exactly what we're told to on our note page, and doing exactly the things we are told to do by the teachers, "learning how to learn"? You really call THAT learning how to learn?! 98% of children aged 4 - 5 are classified as creative geniuses. But funnily enough, only 2% of adults are classified as creative geniuses. What's up with that? Why did the percentage shrink by 49 times? Could it be the school's fault? Definitely. School teaches us to obey, not to think. If you asked a 7-year-old to write a few paragraphs about airplanes, it would probably be really jovial, bouncy, and fun to read. But if you asked a college student to write a few paragraphs about airplanes, it would look about equivalent to something ChatGPT could generate. AI is going to replace a lot of our jobs here eventually, and AI is constantly getting smarter. But you know what we, humans, have that AI could never have? Creativity! So it makes NEGATIVE sense that schools suppress it rather than nurture it! Long story short, school doesn't make us smarter. It makes us DUMBER. Take this brag alert, but I can list off many useful skills I have, verbatim. I can code with Python, I can produce awesome music, write decent stories, especially for my age, that people will stick around reading until the end, name every country recognized by the United Nations and the capitals of said countries (though I am a bit rusty with the capitals), make five-minutes-plus, non-clickbait, non-brainrot YouTube videos across FIVE channels that get up to 235 THOUSAND VIEWS, and I have a stronger vocabulary than 99% of people I know of at my age. With those skills I just mentioned, I could be a software engineer, a game designer, a music producer who sells his music, a freelance song commission-taker, which I already plan on being soon, an author, a linguist, a YouTuber, a video editor, and/or so many more things! And my skillset is definitely only going to grow and get better as I get older! But as long as I can't solve for x, school doesn't give a crap about any of that. School always assumes really terribly of our abilities and what we want to do when we grow up; I don't want to be a mathematician, a historian, or someone who studies million-year-old rocks and finds out where they come from (no offense to anyone who does want to be those things). But school just assumes I want to be all of those, not one at a time, but all at once! It is for all of these reasons that I blame all of these problems of mine on THE SCHOOL. Wow. I can't believe I ranted like that. Idk, have a good day I guess lol

Worst school in existence! Mr. Freeman was not a good principal. He has a disability which causes…read morehim to crash out on students which I wonder why he is still the principa. I hope this school changes and gets better one day. Also the education here sucks.

I'm writing this review as a 15-year-old freshman at this school. Not sure if my perspective will…read morechange over time, but that's worth noting. I hate how stupid some of the assignments and grades and stuff are. This isn't just a problem at this school; it's more of a problem in most schools around the country. But the curriculum is so broken. We just spend hours memorizing facts to spit back out when we take the test. We memorize a bunch of facts, recite that information on tests, and then forget it, so we can make room in our heads to memorize more information to recite on tests, and then forget it, so we can make room in our heads to memorize more information to recite on tests, and then forget it, SO WE CAN MAKE ROOM IN OUR HEADS TO MEMORIZE MORE INFORMATION TO RECITE - ok, I think you get it. We always tell our teachers and parents that a lot of the things we learn in school will never help us in the future. What they always say in response is something along the lines of, "Yeah, you may not need it. But you DO need to learn how to learn." Oh, so you call sitting in chairs super neatly put into grid-like formations, writing down exactly what we're told to on our note page, and doing exactly the things we are told to do by the teachers, "learning how to learn"? You really call THAT learning how to learn?! 98% of children aged 4 - 5 are classified as creative geniuses. But funnily enough, only 2% of adults are classified as creative geniuses. What's up with that? Why did the percentage shrink by 49 times? Could it be the school's fault? Definitely. School teaches us to obey, not to think. If you asked a 7-year-old to write a few paragraphs about airplanes, it would probably be really jovial, bouncy, and fun to read. But if you asked a college student to write a few paragraphs about airplanes, it would look about equivalent to something ChatGPT could generate. AI is going to replace a lot of our jobs here eventually, and AI is constantly getting smarter. But you know what we, humans, have that AI could never have? Creativity! So it makes NEGATIVE sense that schools suppress it rather than nurture it! Long story short, school doesn't make us smarter. It makes us DUMBER. Take this brag alert, but I can list off many useful skills I have, verbatim. I can code with Python, I can produce awesome music, write decent stories, especially for my age, that people will stick around reading until the end, name every country recognized by the United Nations and the capitals of said countries, make five-minutes-plus, non-clickbait, non-brainrot YouTube videos across FIVE channels that get up to 235 THOUSAND VIEWS, and I have a stronger vocabulary than 99% of people I know of at my age. With those skills I just mentioned, I could be a software engineer, a game designer, a music producer who sells his music, a freelance song commission-taker (which I already am, and have earned 10$ from), an author, a linguist, a YouTuber, a video editor, and/or so many more things! And my skillset is definitely only going to grow and get better as I get older! But as long as I can't solve for x, school doesn't give a crap about any of that. School always assumes really terribly of our abilities and what we want to do when we grow up; I don't want to be a mathematician, a historian, or someone who studies million-year-old rocks and finds out where they come from (no offense to anyone who does want to be those things). But school just assumes I want to be all of those, not one at a time, but all at once! It is for all of these reasons that I blame all of these problems of mine on THE SCHOOL. Wow. I can't believe I ranted like that. Idk, have a good day I guess lol

Many teachers don't help the students. Counselors are no help as well I tried to look for…read morescholarship resources and they made the progress unhelpful and stressful it felt like they didn't want to help students with transitioning to college

I attended for 4 years and my experience was horrible, the PE teacher named Mr. Hrushka stole my…read moreapple airpods out of my backpack while I was attending PE class. Also on my first day of senior year someone hit my car leaving a giant scratch and dent while I was in class and the teachers did nothing about it amd told me it was my own problem. 0/10 would not recommend this school.

Not recommended. Like all the other schools, teachers/admins do nothing about school bullying since…read moreI once attended here many years ago. A lot of cyberbullying also happened

Love love love this school! Teachers and administrators and volunteers combine to make a wonderful…read morelearning environment. The Academic Resource Center means that a struggling student has all the support they need to get to the next level. This is a highly competitive school with a reputation for academic excellence, but the students are kind and supportive of each other. We have 3 graduates and one current student at AMHS. Go Wildcats!