My kiddo has attended this school for two years now and I am thoroughly satisfied with it. Parental…read moreinvolvement and communication are highly encouraged. My daughter is exposed to concepts that challenge her creativity and critical thinking skills. They have a brand new cafeteria/auditorium which was the oldest building on campus and it is very impressive. The kids love it too! My daughter is on her way to the best well-rounded education thanks to the teachers and staff of Cypress Ridge.

Im surprised more people havent written reviews about RLCA. I will keep mine short and sweet (as I…read morehave a thing about rambling on). RLCA is one of the best and reasonably priced private schools in the state of Florida. The teachers have an amazing commitment to the students and to the Lord. Both of my children love attending the school and don't miss public school setting one bit. Dr. Long, the headmaster, is a witty, intelligent and funny person and really wants what is best for his students. If you are even just thinking about RLCA for your kids, I would highly suggest it.

My 7-year-old daughter attended Real Life "Christian" Academy for two years. During that time, she…read morewas a respectful student with good grades and no disciplinary issues. She was kicked out innocently due to this below. The conflict began after I preached the Gospel outside the entrance of Gatorland before a school field trip. I recorded a video and posted it on social media. According to the school, students from another school may have appeared in the background. Dean Dawn contacted me and demanded that I remove the video from my social media accounts. I declined, believing I was exercising my constitutional freedoms of speech and religion. An elder from the school later became involved and also requested a meeting regarding the video, which I declined. The family then spent months trying to preserve my daughter's enrollment. Eventually, I removed the video in an effort to resolve the matter. However, I was then presented with restrictions that I felt were unreasonable. I was told I would only be permitted on campus for drop-off and pick-up, and that attendance at events, ceremonies, and other public parent activities involving my daughter would require prior authorization. I informed the school that I would not attend field trips, would not preach, film, or pray for students on campus, and would respect those boundaries. During a meeting, I was also told that one concern was that I had prayed for students on campus. As a parent at a Christian school, I found that surprising. This experience left me questioning what biblical principles the school follows. Jesus said in Matthew 28:19-20, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations." As a Christian, I take that command seriously. Another disappointment came during my daughter's elementary ceremony, where students performed songs from The Greatest Showman. Not one song was Christian, and not one song was focused on God. For a school that identifies itself as Christian, I expected faith to be more evident in its activities and culture. Based on my family's experience, I cannot recommend this school to families seeking a Christ-centered education. We found the environment to be far more aligned with worldly values than with the biblical convictions we expected from a Christian institution. I wouldn't even say they are lukewarm. I would say they are worldly. You might as well send your children to public school--it's practically the same thing. Just add a few Bible classes, and now they can call themselves "Christian" while charging outrageous amounts of money. One more thing: they changed the school uniforms three times and did not reimburse families for the unused uniforms they had already purchased. They also required families to purchase a specific black jacket from a company that embroidered the Real Life logo on it. The company went out of business, and many families never received their jackets, including myself. Yet families still had to pay $65 and were never reimbursed, nor did their children receive the jackets they paid for. And since they unjustly removed my daughter from the school, I requested a refund of the registration fee I had already paid for next year. Can you believe they emailed me back saying they needed to send the request to leadership? Are you kidding me?

Seeing is believing. My four year old has proven to me that Montessori method really is far…read moresuperior to conventional learning and in one month at LOLMS she has exceeded every expectation I had for her new learning experience.

Amazing School with Amazing Staff/Faculty! You couldn't ask…read morefor anything more! Miss Rebecca and Miss Danielle have made a difficult first time school experience wonderful! They are amazing!

I'm absolutely appalled by the behavior of this school. I believe they discriminated against my son…read moreand targeted him with unfair punishments. They also failed to challenge him academically and his test scores plummeted before we pulled him. When my son started going to this school (age 5), he was bright and energetic. He had been reading since before preschool. He was assigned an amazing kindergarten teacher who was very loving and said she was impressed that he was a fluent reader and very good at math. He tested in the 90+ percentile on all the beginning of the year testing. In December, he tested in the 0th. The school broke him. The worst thing they did was punish him for attending therapy. I spoke with the front office, the nurse, and his teacher before the school year started to inform them that he goes to weekly therapy. All said it was fine and he would have no issues. After a few weeks I noticed they had been marking him unexcused for each appointment, even though I provided a note from his therapist each week. I began emailing the attendance secretary each week to remind her that the tardies were excused. A couple months in, we received a note that said he had accumulated too many tardies (all for his appointments) and they would be issuing him a referral if they continued. At this point I reached out to the dean of students. She said we would need to provide new doctors notes for each tardy. So we did. The very next day, she assigned my son detention for spitting at another student on the playground. This was the very first time we had ever heard a complaint from any staff at the school about my son's behavior. Although I believe that detention is a harsh and ineffective punishment for a 5 year old, especially for a first offense, I sent him to his detention a week later. From that point on, it became a fight to get my son to go to school. When we arrived in the car line he would refuse to go in, so I would park and carry him, screaming and crying, into the school. He almost got hit by a car in car line one day trying to avoid going to school. Sometime around this point in time I received another email from the dean of students explaining that she had spoken with the principal and we would need to submit a letter from my son's therapist explaining his goals in therapy and timeline of care. This is where I drew a line. My son did not want me to share this information, and his diagnoses were not affecting his performance at school. Throughout the school year, the car line staff had been pressuring me to drive away before my son was buckled. We were not holding up the line, but the car line staff are very aggressive about getting the line to move. I kept telling them I wasn't comfortable driving with him unbuckled and would move as soon as he was. We did everything we could to get him to buckle quickly. One day, the school resource officer started yelling at my father when he went to pick up my son and ordered him to drive away with my son unbuckled. At this point I emailed the principal and the parent liaison at Academica about my concerns with the car line and with the invasion of my son's privacy in therapy. I sent the email in December and still haven't heard back from the principal. The response from Academica was that they could call CPS because my son had missed too much school (referring to the tardies for his therapy appointments). I informed them that since he was 5, there are no mandatory attendance laws applicable for him, but if they wanted to report me to CPS for sending my son to therapy they could go ahead. The response was "well, if you don't have to send him, why do you?" I guess they just don't understand a parent wanting her son to get a good education. I withdrew him from school and began homeschooling him starting in January. Since then he has been learning at a much faster pace and is much happier. I regret ever sending my son here.

The schools absolute shit, The ceilings falling in the…read moreteachers don't care about your education and all they do is pile up and pile up and pile up stress upon you. I almost killed myself multiple times at the school. Kids like to bomb threat a lot I would not recommend it bullying is a big problem too I'm one of the bullies so I know

It's sucks East Ridge High School wants to protect their image and look like a a good school. When…read morekids report something that's wrong they flip the script and they make the kid a bad guy. Administration there some that cooperate but there's some that they are completely know it alls and they say inappropriate comments about others students are involve when the situation is more of a conflicted situation . There's been multiple cases about multiple teachers and the administrator don't do anything. When you report a teacher they use it against you instead of helping you. If your son or daughter is going to report a teacher please be there, by there side because they will use everything against you. What im trying to say is look out for everything cause this school is stricter about mostly everything.