My daughter is a kindergartener this year 2025-2026. We chose Cheyenne because we consistently…read moreheard excellent feedback from parents whose children attended Cheyenne Traditional School. I also heard positive feedback even from people who had friends whose children attended here. So we chose Cheyenne because of its great reputation for curriculum, teacher-led learning & traditional model and we were thrilled to get in! My daughter's experience at Cheyenne has been wonderful. Her teacher is excellent! My daughter's handwriting is perfect and she's reading and writing complete sentences. She's understanding phonograms and is excited to go to school every day. The school is organized well. The teachers are kind & warm. It is easy to get prompt replies from staff when communicating. I LOVE the uniforms. No concern about who's wear what brand etc. We have met some wonderful parents and have really like that parents are involved in their children's education at Cheyenne. We are big fans of Cheyenne and are thrilled that our daughter can go through middle school as well! Go Roadrunner's!

My daughter currently attends Cheyenne Traditional School and we chose it because of its…read moreoutstanding reputation, strong curriculum, and the incredibly clean, well-maintained campus. From the moment we joined the school community, we could see why so many families speak so highly of it. The staff is truly wonderful and many of them have been there for years, which says a lot about the environment and leadership. Everyone we've interacted with has been personable, responsive, and genuinely happy to be there. The PTO also goes above and beyond to bring joy and support to both the students and the teachers, which creates such a positive atmosphere on campus. There are so many incredible people at the school. Molly has been wonderful, and my daughter absolutely adores her kindergarten teacher, Miss Hayes. Miss Quandt, the art teacher, is also so inspiring, my daughter comes home excited to talk about what she's learning in art. And the Principal Miss Baca is truly exceptional. She's a fantastic communicator, wonderful with both parents and kids, and you can tell she deeply cares about the students and the community. We feel very lucky to have her leading the school. I also appreciate that the kids wear uniforms and are taught to treat each other with dignity and respect. The structure at the school helps children understand expectations and take pride in doing their best. The red and yellow light discipline system gives clear guidance about behavior, and it's evident that the students understand it and respond positively to that structure. Overall, we have been incredibly happy with our experience. It's a supportive, structured, and caring environment where kids can truly thrive. We are so excited for both of our children to be part of this wonderful school community in the years ahead.

Incompetent self serving administration choosing the easy way for them. Some not flexible or…read morewilling to accommodate documented special student situations. Was optimistic and hopeful, but big disappointment and mistake! Not a good supportive environment for all children!

I enrolled in Rancho Solano for my junior year, and let's just say; it wasn't exactly a caring and…read morefriendly environment. I went to Rancho thinking I would get one of the best educations ever, many reviews (i'm assuming are either payed reviews or the extremely rich parents who's kids lied to them about enjoying it) seemed amazing. However, when I arrived I found all the kids my age to be the most stuck up, snobby, rich kids I had ever met. So extremely out of touch, dimwitted, racist, and tone deaf. I was sitting in study hall when I overheard a group of people gossiping about a senior the previous year who cheated on some very hard/important finals and got caught. The parents allegedly paid the principal an additional 25k (which is the same amount as tuition) to stay quiet about it and let him pass. However, that could easily be untrue and just a rumor (wouldn't be surprised with the amount of liars enrolled). I was in Integrated 2 math class. The absolute worst math teacher EVER had. I was more of a quiet kid, I wanted to keep to myself and not talk to any of the out of touch students there. She would often call me out during break asking why I wasn't with my friends, knowing I had pretty much none (by choice). She was more focused on being a "tough"/"strict"/"intimidating" teacher than a good teacher. I learnt more about her unnecessary classroom rules than about what I needed to pass the class. On the midterm final, I spent 2 weeks studying everything we had learnt throughout the year. We weren't made aware until the week of that we weren't allowed calculators on the test, although we had practiced with calculators the whole year. The final felt like a whole new class, for a moment I thought I was at the wrong final exam when I saw what was on it. The housekeeping of this school is very poorly looked after. It's disgusting, specifically the bathrooms. I can only speak for the girls bathroom, there was always toilets that hadn't been bothered to be flushed. The janitors do not do a good job to clean it up, there would be the same unflushed mess in the same toilets for a week straight. More importantly maybe the adults should teach these kids how to flush a toilet as their maids have been doing it all their lives. I will be calling out another teacher who I thankfully did not have but I did witness doing some strange things to a sophomore girl. We were doing presentations in class and this teacher came in to watch a group of girls who obviously he gets along with and has for a class. I always think it's a little strange whenever teachers and students have oddly close or even flirty relationships with one another. I didn't think too much of it until out of nowhere one of the girls screams bursting out of laughter. This 35+ man was tickling a 15 year old girls waist. Absolutely disgusting and predatory behavior. I won't be saying names but all I know is that he teaches science classes. They always emphasized how strict their rules were about dress code. About how skirts should be 4 inches from the middle of the knee, most girls were walking around with their underwear visible and nobody batted an eye. This place does not deserve to be ranked #2 in Arizona's private schools. Disgusting, sloppy, shady, and overall a complete joke.

The only focus of this school Is the ib program. The other…read moreteachers come And go often and don't teach at all. They turn a blind eye to real problems and retaliate against parents who make their concerns known.

Took a tour for a family member becoming a freshman this year. The school had a really bad…read moremusty/moldy odor and lots of roof leaks, and the principal Dr. Hirsch was very difficult to deal with to get the tour scheduled, cancelling on me 3 times and then cancelling on our last tour. Luckily an office receptionist showed us around, which was really nice of them.

I am a former student of Benchmark and I would recommend it to anyone. My teachers were amazing…read morethey cared a lot about me and made sure that I understood any assignment. Most of my teachers loved making learning in the classroom very fun and interesting. The "specials" teachers were amazing and helped me figure out the kind of stuff I love to do. I realize that the school has had a few changes in teachers and principals but I still consider it to be a GREAT school. I made many good memories and have very good friends that I grew up at the school. I always look forward to going back and visiting my teachers. So again I would recommend this school to anyone!

We love this school so much! Class sizes are small, opportunity to be on campus and in the…read moreclassroom is always available to parents, there are so many activities/festivals to get the kiddos excited about learning, the campus is beautiful, the science center is amazing. Truly, so many wonderful things about this place! The school is always locked, the opportunity to donate to various causes is always there, and it is very patriotic! My only negative, many people here park in the No Parking, fire lanes. No one at the school does anything about it. No duty aides outside moving cares, notes, or anything to stop the behavior. I asked once and was told "it's always been like that, people don't listen". As a fire wife, this frustrates me to end! I want to know my daughter is safe in her class and has FULL access to emergency personnel if needed. Other than that, we really love being apart of this school!

Overall, I had a pleasant experience being at NPX and graduating in 2025. However, there are a few…read morethings you should know about. For one, there are certain challenged children in the school that make it quite difficult to safely learn. I remember back in my wee ol days of freshman year, one of my fellow students threw a rock at my teacher. Another separate incident with a different student involved said student shoving another kid's hydroflask as far as he could down the toilet pipes, effectively disintegrating our school pipes. The same kid that threw the rock as mentioned previously, performed a parkour routine in the bathroom that led to 4 critically injured and one still in a coma to this day. I was one of the unfortunate souls affected by this great tragedy, otherwise known as "The Great Bathroom Reckoning". I think the teachers are great, save for one in specific that had a thing for kids, along with another teacher who steals baby photos and keeps them in their personal collection. The food they offer at lunch is decent at best. I once contracted Aids from one of their sandwiches, which ended up making sure I will never bear a child. They have since patched this glitch, and have been supplying better food since that incident. However, the vending machines are very expensive, and are likely linked to human trafficking. This has yet to be proven, but is actively being investigated upon by local authorities. Finally, the school dances. I simply requested that they play a certain jack black song, only for them to instead play Benson Boon and California Women. The events are often lackluster, aside from the occasional moment where the aforementioned mentally unstable children will partake in fights to the near death on top of the roof, whilest streaming it live on instagram for their fanbase to witness. I used to be one of these, the common riff raff, but have since changed my ways after I got hit on the head with a 15 pound rock so hard, I developed memory loss and forgot that I was kind of special. One last thing. There was an incident where I was happily eating my Thursday pizza slices (which sadly the school had cheaped out on that specific day), where a teacher came up to me and started calling me a big back and told me I reeked of calories. I still talk to my therapist about that to this day. Overall, I think NPX is a good place to send your kids, but be weary at the cost of good education.

We went to Great Hearts for 4 years and had one of the best school experiences. My children were…read morethriving. Had we not moved out of Phoenix, we would have gone through high school. The teachers were caring, the kids learned so much and the structure was age appropriate that allowed children to thrive. Some of our favorite memories were: the poetry Bard competition, literature day (dress up like your favorite book character for Halloween), Greek style Olympics (all day field day). The afterschool clubs are robust. Some of my kids favorite were: volleyball, basketball, football, dodgeball, soccer, sign language, art club, and drawing club.

We have two boys, ages four and six, attending Laguna Elementary, and we couldn't be happier with…read moreour experience. They both started in the Panda program with Mrs. Wynne and absolutely thrived--we quickly fell in love with the school. The specials teachers are all wonderful and truly add to the positive environment. Now our son is in Mrs. Bethke's kindergarten class, and we honestly wish he could stay there forever! She has made such a meaningful impact on his learning and has helped us feel so confident and encouraged about his progress. Laguna Elementary consistently hosts great events throughout the year, and the principal is incredibly kind and welcoming. We feel very lucky to be part of such an amazing school community and highly recommend it!

I love this school I enrolled my son in kindergarden and he has told me wonderful things about the…read moreschool and the faculty, hes now a freshman in highschool and still talks about his friends and classes from kindergarden through 6th grade, the only problem I have is the 3rd grade teacher Mrs.Stewart who was very unfair to my son other than that it was a great school.

We had moved over to a new area within the same school district, the Paradise Valley School…read moreDistrict. I was confident that the school would be up to the standards of the other schools in this district. Boy, was I wrong. At the time our boy was in the third grade and we had always had teachers tell us how nice, how kind, sweet he is and he had plenty of friends at our old school at Desert Shadows. From the first day of coming to Desert Cove he was treated in a disparaging manner by both the teacher and the children. Yes, you read that right, the teacher. He came to us and told us she has treating him poorly and being mean to him. We went to the school and confronted the teacher, who confessed to us that she had gone on vacation and came back and had three new students in her class and that is why she was treating him differently!?! What, did I hear this right? What kind of teacher takes out her frustration on her students because she had more kids to teach than she had planned? Well we thought we had come to a crossroads where he would continue and we would give her another chance. Things didn't change. He was bullied by the kids and the teacher kept up with her poor treatment even though we had multiple trips speaking with her. It really was an extremely negative experience and he attended only one year and we decided to drive back to our old school even though it was far away. Kate Stewart was the name of this teacher and shame on you for being so rough on a little guy, who wanted nothing but to come to a school to learn, be part of the group, treated with kindness and value, and he got the exact opposite. Highly disappointed with this school and it's staff. I'm sure we are not the only ones. If it's happening to one it's happening to others. A bird doesn't change its feathers.

Really having a good year. Choir concert was phenomenal tonight. Even heard people saying the…read moremiddle school was better than the HS. Great job kids!