This is an excellent private school but query what values are being taught here. The 2016…read morevaledictorian has now been accused of stalking and murder of a CEO in NYC.

This rating is for the Educational Forum hosted by Gilman, only. My children actually created a…read morethumbnail, in honor of it LOL. Geeks Rule Ok. My children attend public school but hehehe we get around... @Gilman, we spent the day learning stuff!! My son cherishes a key tag he learned how to make using laser cutting. He also learned yet another way to program an EV3 robot and built a reusable rocket (mom, I'm tired of EV3, I wanna learn programming for another robot). My daughter learned how to make natural dyes and both son and daughter learned how to make reusable rockets (the toy kind). On my end, I learned how to foster critical thinking with my children and how progressive schools are adapting to changing needs of learners. If you are seeking diverse perspectives on education, I highly recommend!

I'm class of '97, my oldest sister class of '88. Additionally, Martin O'Malley's wife is an alumna…read more& their daughters currently attend. I chose this school because of the curriculum, it's traditions, it's service to the community and the level of decorum it promotes. This school is an All Girls College Prep Catholic school. The school is for grades 6-12. They've won the Blue Ribbon quite a few times. They teach girls to strive for excellence, loyalty, respect themselves (and others) and to be true. The college admission and professional success rate of all alumnae is over 95% for all graduates. If you care about the future success of your daughter and you have the means, this is the school to attend.

Our daughter is extremely happy at NDP and is thriving. Academics are challenging and rigorous,…read moreteachers and staff are amazing. Lots of clubs and sports to choose from, and plenty of service opportunities.

Wonderful school with loving teachers that truly care about their students. The whole community is…read morethe best, and they get to express their love of God and learn about him without repercussions like public school. I highly recommend this school!!

They know kids so well. Amazing school for early childhood and all the teachers seems to be so…read morenice.

Over the past two school years (2014-2016) at Fallston Community Pre-K, I have witnessed the…read moreteachers' genuine love of working with children. The school's director, Mrs. Jamie, is driven and dedicated. To mention a few things...the amazing new library, fun guest visitors and field trips and special events held for the school - there is wonderful stuff going on at FPK! Our son's teacher, Mrs. Amy, is fantastic!! Not only does she have a heart of gold but she has given our son a solid foundation of social skills, reading, math and science for Kindergarten. Thank you FPK! We'll see you next year with child #2! ;-)

If you are considering the Goddard School of Sparks Maryland as a daycare for your child(ren), you…read moremay want to think twice. My husband and I selected this daycare because of its great reviews and other parents telling us how wonderful it was. However, we found that the Goddard School of Sparks did not meet our expectations. We were constantly called about minor illnesses and trivial incidents. We would take our children to the pediatrician who was astounded that a daycare would send a child home for such a small thing. Staff, and more specifically the directors, make a lot of medical accusations that are consistently wrong. Leading us and many other parents to argue with the directors, which we saw more than a few times, in the office or in the parking lot. The directors would also not respect doctors notes, and despite a board certified pediatrician writing that a child is ok to return to daycare/school, they would still force children to stay home. It is difficult to think of how many times our children were in a full week of daycare from the ages of 6 months to 2 years without receiving a phone call. One of the more concerning things for us was the fact that we were told, "to not to have long conversations (which was considered more than asking about their day) with the teachers about your child, since the teachers are busy at drop off and pick up." Which makes no sense since the teacher is in the classroom with your child for hours on end, not the directors. If something is going on, I want to speak with the person who spends the most amount of time with my child. Additionally, myself and a few other parents have been told we spend too much time at drop off or pick up, which directly contradicts their open door policy. Because of these "rules" we encountered major inconsistencies between teachers and directors. Interestingly, one of the director's children was always in the front office and out of the classroom spending time with her which was ironic considering how ourselves and other parents could not spend more than a few minutes with out kids. Classrooms are pushed to the legal max of head count with children to staff ratio. We understand this is a business, but the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests a classroom size of 8, and there are 12 kids in a classroom around the ages 2-3. That is a 50% increase over the recommended limit. Again I would expect this from a cheaper school. You would think, if this is such a prestigous school, they would be following the American Academy of Pediatrics evidence based practice information and spin this into saying "we use the American Academy of Pediatrics information to better support your child". But all they care about is your money. We will be direct and state, the directors of this school are not qualified to be in their positions. In fact, when things got bad, they had to hire an administrative director to settle things, which speaks volumes about the three directors "who are in charge". These directors make decisions and assumptions about children, when they have no medical or childhood education training from a college or university. When our children were babies, the teachers of the first three classrooms were great, but the directors made it difficult, and we want to be clear that we have no complaints about those teachers. However, teachers from the older children's classrooms were lackluster and underqualified for what was to be expected from the amount of money we were paying per month. Once our children were older and in the fourth classroom and upward, things became really unprofessional from the directors. Even one of the directors accused one of our children of being aggressive. And yet when we would ask what happened, they seemed to always know what our child was doing wrong and never telling us anything he was doing a great job of completing. Furthermore, whenever my eldest child was "doing something wrong" they always knew what he was doing and always somehow managed to see the bad behavior, but when our child came home with a bruise or injury, the directors or teachers wouldn't know what happened. Another noticeable problem is the obvious teacher swapping and movement. Teachers would switch classrooms and would be placed out of their comfort zone. Teachers were used to a certain age group would be placed in a different age group. This would lead to problems with the children because the teachers didn't know how to handle problems or situations and it lacks consistency for children. When considering the Goddard School's child to teacher ratio, the teachers should be more interactive with the kids when outside. Many times we came outside to pick up our kids, and all the teachers are in a large group talking to one another, ignoring the children. We would have expected this at a cheaper school, but not a higher end school, which the Goddard School claims to be. And if something was to

I think the Goddard school is great! My daughter comes here and has been for 4 years and we love…read moreit! Very welcoming and loving. They have so many hands on things to do. They always have activities for the children. They are never bored!! I have no complaints and I recomend the Goddard school for your children. I love that it's not just free play I love that it has structure for my child. I wouldn't take my daughter any other place.

I will always feel a deep sense of gratitude that my daughter was lucky enough to attend the…read moreGreenmount school. No school is perfect, but we felt Greenmount came awfully close to meeting that parental ideal. It provided our child with a five star education at a modest for private, school cost and was academically and socially transformative. The staff were bright, creative, nurturing and insightful. Even the two tough love teachers were lovely folks who I respect and have genuine affection for. Some of its faculty were down right brilliant and amazed us left and right. We are both educators so know good teaching when we see it and most times it was amazing as were the administrators: Steve, Elaine and Liz. I can't speak to the present staff, as a few of our favorites have moved on, but when we were there, you would be hard pressed to find a more talented math and language arts faculty. Every one my daughter caught, were knock your socks off good! Sometimes I'd sigh with pleasure watching them teach. One that we nearly worshiped, Ms Tanza is is still on staff and she was an outstanding educator, but went to a much needed administrative position. The administration and office staff were always welcoming, and generous with their time and so kind. If they said they would look into something, or amend it, they promptly did so. I don't know of another head of school who would drop everything and personally walk down and check on a child who was feeling a bit anxious like Ms Elaine and Ms Liz, or a history teacher who would bat around a project after school with your child for 30 minutes, like Fletcher. I felt that every staff member genuinely enjoyed children and took the responsibility assigned to them. They are committed, kind watchful, hard working and the majority deep souled. We loved the small cozy feel, communally imaginative and artistic hum, and a staff that strategized together, and things like Shakespeare plays open to all, vibrantly interesting themes, spiraling curriculum and creative after school club offerings. Their mutual concern for students extended beyond academics, and strongly factored in each student's confidence, learning style, social and emotional well being. Issues of bulling and unkindness were addressed, as well as academic remediation and encouragement provided. Teachers invited students to drop in after school with questions. If a mistakes was made they owned and and apologized. I adored that about them.They were great about email. Many were witty, humble and delightful. I once watched two well up with tears at how far my child had come. My child was dyslexic and dysgraphic and hated writing and would be in tears for hours and left a strong writer and great speller thanks to the combined talents of Ms. Tanza, Ms. Allison and Ms. Pam. They literally remediated her in a 1.5 months and took her fear and dread of writing away. They were miraculous. She was quiet and made great friends and grew in confidence. I saw children who hated math grow to relish it and describe it as their favorite subject. In fact, I have never seen a group of children so fired up and in love with math. Mr Luca was as outstanding at the language arts staff. Unfortunately, those instructors have left, retired or taken admin positions, but they were worth every penny of that tuition. Science other than my daughter's first two years with Pam and Ms Elizabeth who were awesome, could have been stronger, but we haven't been at a school were I wouldn't level that same complaint. It is hard to find capable science faculty and do so on the limited budget most schools have, even at the 35K a year schools. There are sometimes good club activities to round that out and they were actively working on improving the situation prior. Like all private schools, there is a lot of staff turnover. That is both a good and bad thing. Sometimes you hit it right and catch some rather breathtaking educators who are only in town for a few years, or unfortunately near retirement and you are heart broken to see them go. Yet anyone not up to snuff is rarely retained for more than a year, which is more than you can say about public school. It's sad when the stellar ones leave, but comforting when anyone struggling is moved along, and the experience is uniformly allotted. If public school is not a great fit for you child, race to GreenMount, it really is a gem of a school with the most caring and delightful staff.

Greenmount is a small community focused on giving its students a large education. The classes are…read moresmall, 12 in Kindergarten and 12- 15 in the elementary and middle schools. The curriculum is developed around 3 themes annually and theme is the same for the entire school K-8. It is also a parent co-op with each parent required to volunteer to defray costs. This means the tuition is more in the $10 - $12 K range, a real value in a city where independent school tuition can be +$25 K.

Great school, amazing campus, great teachers. 10/10 School. Is and always will be better than Boys…read moreLatin

Been going to this school for 3 years now and I have to say it's not worth the money at all. When…read moreit is shadow day for all of the new students, the school makes it look like such a great school with tons of plans of expanding the campus (which they did remodel the upper school). You are FORCED AND REQUIRED to wear a mask all day indoors. There is proof that masks don't even work for stopping the spread of covid-19. I've been warned multiple times for the smallest jokes ever that were not in the middle of when a teacher was talking. In conclusion; this school is a waste of time and money, the only reason I give it two stars is because of the athletic opportunity's you get at this school.

Love this place! Great teachers and engaging classroom. Took my son to two sessions of…read moreparent/toddler before enrolling him in the preschool. Tried one other Montessori school in the area and couldn't get back to this one fast enough.