This school is an amazing school.All of the teachers are amazing and are very kind and humble. The…read moreeducation there is very amazing. All the teachers help each and every student. This is one of the best schools ever.

My child goes to the Villa Academy…read more We want our kid to be a decent citizen. If she becomes a corporate tycoon, a brilliant scientist or an astronaut, great. But we would like her to do those things while leading a life that respects her fellow man/woman. Next to the door of one of the kindergarten rooms at Villa, the teacher has created a mural with the words, "Respect, Compassion, Self-Discipline, Citizenship, Trustworthiness, Honesty, Responsibility, Fairness, Perseverance, Integrity". The Villa Academy is not some haven for rich kids that merely gives lip service to these values. They walk the walk. Even the earliest preschool classes have seasonal projects that focus on helping others. Service to others is a main focal point. Our child's teachers have all been excellent. Small class sizes with classroom assistants keeps the classroom environment orderly and focused on learning. Mrs Olson, you ROCK. To an outsider, I'm sure Villa might appear to be a bastion of the WASPs. Be careful. As soon as you drop your guard, and stop viewing people as wealthy snobs, you just might discover that most parents at Villa are really very warm hearted folks. People go out of their way to help each other out. And Villa parents are very, very dedicated to both the kids and the school. While my child has benefited from Villa, I think I have grown as a person as well. For what its worth, there are plenty of folks who are not Catholic who send their kids to Villa, and quite a few who are not Christians. We are very, very happy Villa parents. I won't make light of the cost, its not cheap. But people send their children there for a reason, and its not to brag to the neighbors. Its an excellent school, and an excellent community.

My child is thriving academically and socially at this amazing school. Our family love being part…read moreof the community. We highly recommend this school.

We have been happily attending this school for the last 2.5 years. We're a small warm school with a…read morefantastic community. Though it is a Catholic school, most kids are not Catholic. All are welcome.

The best education for young women in Seattle and beyond! Great teachers - gorgeous facility and a…read morehistory as a catholic institution that is supportive to a wide variety of religions. Excellent in sports, science, music, drama, languages and mathematics. A Blue Ribbon Award winning school! You'll be happy if your daughter is accepted - and so will she! (Oh and a beautiful chapel to get married in years later!)

www.holynames-sea.org . Holy Names Academy recognized as one of the 100 Best Companies to work…read morefor in 2008 by WA CEO Magazine.

This school suffered bad publicity due to public judgement without the complete details of the…read moresituation. There are many current staff members here who are openly gay and they are not fired nor condemned because they maintain respectful of their environment. This is a really good school and my kid thrives here. This is a welcoming environment and teaches love, service to the community and respect. In any other workplace, if you "sh-- where you eat," you will probably get fired no matter your sexual orientation. Keep it in your pants until you get out of school grounds and no one will care!

Best fit for my child, for curriculum and community. He's excited to head back for the new year. He…read moreappreciates that the teachers treat them with respect.

I really wanted to like Fairview. It was reasonably priced, directly on the way to my work, and I…read morewanted my daughters to get a Christian education there. We had a tour of the facility and were enamored of it before we were accepted. One of our daughters was in the Pre-K class, the other in preschool, and they went there nearly a full year. The teachers themselves were great. We loved them, they seemed very good at their jobs. The facilities were also good. The kids get a lot of opportunities to do some really cool stuff, and there are frequent field trips. The initial downside was that their communication skills were terrible. Emails from the administration wouldn't distinguish that the school part was closed (but not the childcare facility) for holidays. Our youngest wasn't potty trained (we tried!) before she started, and they refused to let her stay in pull-ups, so we ended up going through as many as four sets of clothes per day. The staff was terrible at telling us if we were running low on clothes and I ended up having to leave work mid-afternoon one day because my daughter was out of clean clothes. A fund-raiser we signed up for was pizza lunches every Wednesday. It was advertised as "skip making a lunch once a week", but when I stopped sending in lunches, I got an email from them telling me I wasn't meeting the state requirements on lunches and needed to supplement the pizza meals. We raised the discrepancy between the promises on the fundraiser promo-sheet and the reality with the childcare center's director, only to see the exact same flier used the next semester. The worst part of the experience was the early-morning drop-off. Before 8am, all of the children (regardless of age) were placed in the same room. Washington State laws require that in mixed groups, you use the age of the youngest child to determine required ratios. There were 2 year olds in with 5+ year olds, and the required ratio of 1 teacher for every 7 students was almost always violated during this time, or nearly violated. There was usually 2-3 teachers for 20+ children, and it was very chaotic. My girls ended up hating being left in the morning, and we ended up spending 5-15 minutes consoling them before feeling comfortable leaving them. The final straw that made us take the girls out was the morning we arrived and there was only 1 teacher for 16+ 2-4 year olds in the room. Older kids were taking toys from the younger, boys were rough-housing in the corner, the room was pure chaos. After waiting 5 minutes for another teacher to show up, I ended up having to go to the school principle to get more staff in the room before I felt comfortable leaving my daughters there. When I complained about the teacher ratios and having to track down extra staff, I was given a non-apology and told that if my daughters had difficult with the early-morning hour that I should bring them into school at a later time of the day. We took the girls out of Fairview shortly after that. It pains me to have to write up a review such as this one, but I don't think it's fair for any of the future parents considering this school to not have some insights into the problems that we had to deal with there.

This is my son's second year at Fairview, and first year in kindergarten. This school has an…read moreexcellent child care center with the most reasonable prices I've found in Seattle, and the teachers in the child care center genuinely care for the children under their watch. When my son was in the child care center part of the school, he was always excited to get to school in the morning, which is a great feeling if you are a parent, to know that your son loves where he spends the majority of his day. Mrs. Foster was his teacher in the Frog class, and I have nothing but good things to say about her. My review is about the kindergarten program. I chose Fairview partly because of their small class sizes, and when I met Mrs. McGuire, the kindergarten teacher, I was really excited for what was to come. She definitely does not disappoint! My son can be a handful, and Mrs. McGuire is firm but kind in her expectations of her class and doesn't let him get away with his antics. He has absolutely thrived in the environment she has created. She has helped him grow in his love for God, makes learning incredibly fun, and is a loving, invested teacher. Every one of her students loves her! The other great thing about this school is that they have both before and after care on site, due to the fact that they are a child care center as well. This is very helpful as I am not out of work at 3:15 every day. To anyone considering Fairview, I would highly recommend enrolling your child there!

As someone who has attended this school, I would not recommend it whatsoever. The communication at…read morethis school was really bad, many people got in trouble for the most dumbest things, all because they never explained what the rules were at that school. They were also very protective when it came to the students and their social media outside of school. In their guidebook, it stated that if a student posts anything that doesn't represent the Spiritual culture, then the student will earn either detention or suspension. Very not necessary... The atmosphere of the other students there is also very toxic. There was bullying happening, inappropriate photos of women being spread, and lots of people talking badly about one another. And the staff or principal did nothing to help or fix it. I would not recommend this school at all.

This school is not really my favorite, because this school wants everyone to use stylus and…read morecomputer with touchscreen to do tests, and when doing computer tests, it is harder to take notes and notes help me express my thinking especially multiple choice and also the words are sometimes too small and I couldn't even zoom in. And teachers don't really give the time that students need on tests. And every student is different in their own way with their own preferences. One teacher would give only 50% when students don't finish their test by the time. Also, all kids in the same grade have to take the same level of bible class. In the bible class the bible that the school offered me has words that are too small. Sometimes I couldn't even understand the words. So therefore: This school should give kids hard copy test if they need it and the time they need.

As a family, we are loving the decision to take our kids to Seattle Christian School. The campus…read morehas K-12 in the building therefore, our 5th grader is still in school with our 10th grader. The professional teachers, faith based education and the community feel on the campus is reassuring to me as a mom. I feel the education is superior and the athletic program is competitive. I love the confidence our kids have gained and the friends they are making. I feel this college prep-faith based school is the right choice for our family.