I wanted more for my son. I expected more of my son - public school didn't deliver, but Pensacola…read moreSchool of Liberal Arts (SoLA) exceeded our expectations. My son began struggling in 10th grade while attending a local public high school. I can't begin to tell you how many meetings we had with teachers, counselors, deans, principals, IEP and district representatives. Since he wasn't a discipline problem they kept passing him on. I soon learned my son was an experiment for a floundering system. Following a terrible semester report card, we decided to search for a private school. I was surprised to find Pensacola had so many choices. After visiting most of them, I concluded these private schools were all a one-size fits all style of student and curriculum all except for SoLA. On our second visit to SOLA, Mrs. Tarver "interviewed" my son to identify what was missing in his quest to become a lifelong learner. Finally a school administrator that was willing to get to the core of why he wasn't learning. The SoLA staff had truly taken an interest in my son reaching his full potential. SoLA taught him first; that he must want to learn. Once he learned this skill others followed, including; independent thinking, creativity, integrity and balance, he became happier and believed for the first time he could do this work. He became independent, self-motivated and the stress level in our home dropped significantly. Final thought: While our local schools are struggling to lift performance across the board, SoLA is doing this one student at a time. Teachers will always be underpaid - and underappreciated but the teachers at SoLA know they didn't choose to teach for these reasons. They chose education to change lives and the Pensacola School of Liberal Arts does this greater than anyone else... One student at a time. Congratulations class of 2016 including my son and thank you Jacqui Tarver and Travis Cummings for teaching and caring for all of these children!

I worked here for 2 years our of my 6 years of teaching so far. Scenic is small, and family owned…read more Their love of children and love of teaching shows in how they conduct their business. I only left because I found a job closer to home teaching. I miss Mrs. Ruby and Mrs. Jackie.

I worked here in total of two weeks in my three month period of being employed. I never knew when i…read moreneeded to work because they would not tell me. I would come in and they would say "oh we don't need you today." After I agreed would change diapers they lectured me several times about it. They were very inconsiderate to me.

We use Abeka and recently went to meet our teacher. Everything was perfect. From customer service,…read morefront desk, to the teacher meeting it was amazing. Visiting the school and the support from our teacher made me even more confident in our homeschool journey. Thank you PCA!

It's always nice for students to learn through a Christian atmosphere. The graduation was well…read moreorganized and went smoothly.

This location is actually Scenic Heights Elementary. Goes through K-5th. The principals name is…read moreShelly Cox. They are a B school. Ive had an OK experience here as a parent.

This review is only about the "School Choice" office, not the District as a whole. Although I…read moreshould lump them in here too since the "Child Find" office is located here too, and the follow up from them is pretty pathetic as well. I'll try to keep this short. Basically for school choice (out of zone waivers) I went and filled out all their required paperwork back in June. Next day (still in June), got a phone call saying my kid's approval went through and his school would see him in their computer and finish registering him. Fast forward to August-get a phone call from his teacher for the meet-n-greet, that went great, on the way out, I checked with the front office to make sure they had received the School choice info. Lo and behold, of course, they had not. And the info they did have on file was ALL wrong. And I mean ALL. Wrong names, addresses, phone numbers, relationships to child, etc. This was after I had turned everything in with our current info. I had kind of been fore-warned that my info didn't match what they had in the system when the teacher called. But I didn't know it was that bad! I had even tried calling the number at the School Choice office to correct the info. The number I got went straight to voicemail. No biggie. I left a message asking them to please call me back. Did anyone call? (What do you think?) Since it's so close to the start of school the Elementary school office recommended that I show up in person to get it fixed. They gave me the printouts of my child's registration forms too. So, I trek all the way across town and step into a literal CIRCUS. There are little kids screaming everywhere (6 belonged to one very pregnant mom!) and of course people trying to conduct their business. Couldn't hear anything. I wait a few minutes and a lady comes up to me and I explain *their* problem. I had to explain to them several times how I had already done all of this in June. So, lady goes and looks at my son's file. She comes back and tells me that the school I want him to go to is the one we're zoned for. Ummm, no, obviously not; or else why would I be in here??! So then she goes back to her office again and then comes back and tells me that he never got approval. Again, DUH. So again, I explain to them the procedure I went through 2 months previously-even going into detail to name the specific people I worked with and tried to call. (BTW-you can forget them calling you back when you leave messages for them. They don't call you back). So now lady tells me that "the registration paperwork you have in your hand wasn't printed out by us, it was done at the school so they can't help it if it's wrong. To which I replied, "I know this. But where do you think they pull their information from?" At this point I think the lady could tell I was getting pretty pissed, so she goes back to her office and types up the approval letter, gets it signed, sealed and delivered to me in 2 minutes flat. Was it really that hard? Their whole attitude just seems like they don't want to help anyone or even do their job the right way. I totally understand that this is the busiest time of the year; right before school-but that doesn't mean you need to act like you hate your job to everyone either. If you hate it so much then do something else! ECSD gets low scores in ranking on schools in the state, (#48/69!) which only serves to perpetuate the state of FL more in the Union's eyes as "Ratchet @$$ Florida". Horrible service.

Teachers are not friendly. Lazy teachers. Teachers don't have the time of day to talk to parents…read more One worded answers. Not what you expect from St Anne's. Worried my little girl is not being treated fairly. We have had many incidents where the teacher wasn't watching her. Will find a happy place for her.

very unprofessional, the current administrator is very rude and exposed my personal business that…read morewas discussed in private to all her employees. definitely would not recommend this school at all.

It's a great school and all. They just need to fix their parking situation or maybe even build a…read morebigger parking lot beside other classrooms. Today, the gentleman who was in charge of parking was very rude and disrespectful and very arrogant . He only gives you about a minute or two before you need to turn around the park lot or leave the parking lot. Even though I was waiting to pick up my sibling. I was not even holding up the parking lot since the people behind me were also waiting for their kids or siblings. And the other cars on the other pickup line could have gone before me to leave the parking lot. And when my sister was getting in my car, he was very rude. You guys need to find a better way to run the parking lot or at least give us like 5 to 10 minutes to wait for the kids who are being picked up in the parking lot . Cause it's very stressful being told to park or turn around and come back.

I graduated from Catholic High and my son attends now as a Junior. Outstanding academic and…read moreathletic programs drive a culture of excellence and success. Caring faculty. Reasonable tuition rates for this area. One more thing that is notable, 100% of the student body is drug tested annually by hair strand sample.