This was my elementary school when I was younger. It was great back then and it still is a great…read moreschool. Great staff, great teachers who pour into your life. Very involved with the community and giving back.

I had a great experience attending LES from first grade through eighth. All my teachers were…read morecaring, great at their job and went beyond the scope of the expansive and rigorous curriculum to provide valuable life lessons in morals, philosophy and ethics. Class sizes were small when I attended this school but I felt that I received a good balance of personalized attention and general instruction. Also, getting weekly writing assignments published in The Lantern ignited a lifelong passion for writing and editing.

This is bay ridges best kept secret. Kids love the school, they learn, their safe, school is priced…read morefair, they offer so many things after school- clubs , events, all the kids and parents and teachers are nice, kids are way above what they would be doing in the same grade in public school academically. Kids love going here. School is kept very well. Staff loves working here. I can't recommend it enough - principal and teachers are amazing. Take a tour -your kids will love it. My kid loves going here.

Ahhh! Good Shepherd! I spent my whole elementary school experience here from pre-K to 8th grade…read more I will brag that I was valedictorian of the Class of 1999! It was a killer speech; sorry you missed it! Good Shepherd School is also one of the few surviving Catholic co-ed schools within the Brooklyn area that is a teaching center for young Catholics that are wanting to continue with their faith even after graduation. The classrooms are usually filled with 15-23 children at any given time, and the classes have expanded to second languages (that of which I sadly didn't get a chance to take advantage of when I was attending) to music and much more. Catholic education IS expensive, but worth the investment for your children or grandchildren to instill in them the values of ethics, faith, and discipline.

I went to this school for 1 year and it was terrible. The teachers would always scream at you and…read morethe bathroom stalls were with no doors so you had to go all the way to the first floor to go to the bathroom. The school is really dusty which is bad for allergic people. I don't recommend this school.

My child transferred from public school to Adelphi. This school is overpriced with a weak academic…read moreprogram. The head of school and teachers only care about money and more money. Besides the tuition charges you will have to bring in more money - fundraising, expensive school trips that are mandatory, even tickets for school plays are sold for money, even students must purchase the tickets. For school lunch you must pay in advance before school starts, you have no choice - it's included in your deposit. The meal is terrible. Whatever has to be hot is cold and whatever has to be cold is warm, test-less and undercooked. I paid for the lunch at the beginning of the school year but my child never ever ate there. There are no water fountains and the school sells water bottles that are more expensive than in stores. The head of school and Most of the stuff is rude and mean except doctor Jecome- the science teacher, he was really nice. Half of my emails to the head of the school left unanswered. Spanish starts from 9th grade comparing to 5 or 6 grade in public schools. My child had to be present of course on Spanish lessons and waist time and money. In 9 grade math students learn what public students learn in 8 grade. My child waisted a year learning nothing new in this school and I waisted money. If you care about your child's education and your money don't send your kid to this school.

Also known as P.S. 48 The Mapleton School. The absolute best teachers in NYC, possibly the best…read morethird grade teachers in the world ;0) The school has a castle appearance, is very safe and has solid doors. Your kids will be safe here!

Hello, I am a former student who went to IS30. I actually graduated with some of my friends. Some…read morewho have been in the building since kindergarten, like me. Some of the teachers and staff are all really nice and kind to students. Especially my old 8th grade ELA teacher, who went to go teach at another school. And some of the friends I made I still keep in touch with! However, some of the other students and staff aren't -- but especially the staff. An example of this would be the dean, Ms. Guzman. For starters, she's a control freak who used to be a gym teacher for a little while. I don't think she has what it takes to be a dean because there was a time where last year when she would stand outside in the hallway of the 3rd floor with a bucket of phones she'd collected from kids who: A, came in late and didn't turn in their phones or B, were trying to be sneaky. Sometimes she'd go to every classroom with the bucket of phones and see if kids have any other phones they didn't turn in. She'd also apparently went through a kid's phone after an incident with an "egg challenge" (which, the kid wasn't even apart of and that's a breach of privacy). A lot of the problems come from the piss-poor management of fights between two students. Most of the time the adult tries to make sure the students apologize to each other, which they aren't supposed to do according to my aunt who works at the DOE. On the subject of not doing things correctly, they also immediately side with the kid who came to them. Which means a kid could come to the teacher with a fabricated story, and the teacher would believe them with little to no investigation involved other then basic questioning if the suspect. Another thing, Deans at psis30 are horrid at calling out blatant racist, homophobic, and transphobic remarks. Multiple times slurs have been thrown around and the most they got were a fingerwag. Most of the time it's up to the teachers to call this out. Speaking of calling these things out, this school is majorly hypocritical when you try to come to a higher power about these things. Most of the time telling you to " just ignore it. ". They only start to care when the kids start to get physical. And they have. Adults also promised kids things they never delivered on, say for example, you went to a adult about somebody being mean, they would simply tell you that they would deal with it and to " just ignore it. ". If they say thing one of two things will happen, either they will tell the bully to not go near you, or, just won't do anything at all. This isn't how you deal with cases like these in the slightest. You can't just pretend it doesn't exist. The staff doesn't care unless it's to a extreme degree. And even then, if the opposite party says one negative thing about you, despite everything they've done to you, you both are now in equal amounts of trouble. Which is so wrong on so many levels. They're have also been times where favoritism has played a role in unfair treatment. Especially of people with disabilities. I myself am physically disabled and I was favored by staff like Guzman for whatever reason. It has gone to a point where she personally has my parents phone numbers. And they are oblivious to the shit she does to other students who aren't neurodivergent or physically disabled, like myself. Shit she and other staff has done to my friends like not like one of them because their mom works at the school and turn a blind eye to my other friend getting S/A, despite always making presentations about what to do about being S/A'd there. And more shit like my brother being assaulted and harassed by the kids in his old class and an old counselor, Ms. Allen, who thought it was *MY* fault for being purposefully left out by an old group of girls I used to hang out with and was being treated poorly, causing me to mentally breakdown in school multiple times. Now, after me and my friends all graduated from that nightmare, everything started going to shit! The new 8th and 7th graders loove to get into fights to the point where there's multiple police cars outside the building, the school almost got sued, and a bunch more other things! Anyway, parents, take it from me and my friends, unless you want your kid to get mind-fucked and mentally scarred by the students and / or staff and Guzman for 9 years straight, DO. NOT. COME. HERE. The school is at it's deserved downfall and is just really unsafe in my opinion. And if any more former students come out the woodworks about their experience, I wholeheartedly support it. And to the asinine staff; I hope all of you rot in hell. I hate all of you with a burning passion and I don't miss any of you. I feel bad for the kids after me who are fucked up because of this school. And Guzman, just know I despise your every being, I don't miss you. 9 years for nothing.

This is the first time I have visited this school. I used to live in this area. This school…read morereplaced an old church. I remember it took around 2 years for them to build it. This is a public school that was built at the right time: overcrowding in schools have become a national epidemic. Anyway, the group I belong to: Fight Back Bay Ridge was co hosting with the AAA the 3rd debate for City Council with the 3 candidates: Capano/Brannan/ Quaglione. The school is very warm and welcoming with light blond wood. Very clean and spacious; nice sign for parents. The debate was held in the assembly which was quite large and accommodating. I also know that this school is an extension of a small elementary school that is adjacent to this school. Hopefully this school will succeed and will be a precursor for more new schools to be built

UPDATE: It hasn't gotten any better, but it is not the worse. One of my children are about to…read moregraduate this year so this will be my last time mentioning the horrible things this school has put them through. First of all, let's talk about how they don't care about the students once again. You'd think after all these reviews, HLA would better themselves as a network and parents would refrain from putting their kids here, but clearly no one thinks the injustice is severe. There is nothing, and when I say nothing, NOTHING, for the middle schoolers to do. They don't host no activities for them to be excited about, and when they do, most are shunned out of the fun. The kids that go here don't have nothing to look forward to but graduation and prom, which they use prom as an excuse not to host anything for them. My lower school kid has gotten a lot for just breathing more than my middle schooler who has put her everything into keeping her grades afloat. Another thing, grades! When it comes to grades, the teachers and deans have no understanding what it means to actually put in grades. Some put multiple bad grades in and one good grade, acting like that one good grade will balance everything out, but when a child comes to them upset that they didn't make merit role because of them, their confused. A good chunk of teachers are bias, and they don't put the grades students deserve, they wage it on how much they like them. And sadly, that means biases towards bad kids who are more outspoken. And when someone who has been quiet for most the time finally expresses their feelings, they are labeled as angry, specifically the black kids who attend HLA. The teachers here DO NOT know what it means to be neutral, they always want somebodies friend. Some teachers poke at the bear, in this case students, unfairly. Nitpicking everything they do whether it helps them learn or not. And when that students decides enough is enough and they lash out, guess whose held accountable? I'll give you a hint, it's NOT the teachers. Student's should be able to feel like they have enough freedom to express themselves on what they like or don't like what teachers does without fear of being gossiped about around teachers or being gossiped around peers because it was their favorite teacher. They've had past child preying teachers in this school, and they turn a blind eye every single time a complaint comes through. In conclusion, there is a lot of things to be fixed, and it's better to restart everything. Get a better principal who actually cares, and teachers who care about their students.

I would give this school negative starts if I could If you want your child to actually learn do not…read moreput them here they have poor leadership the teachers do not help you understand the work at all at the first beginning of the year I was there 2 of our teachers quit you do not learn anything positive the gym teacher was horrible he put songs that have cuss words in them and he cuss at us and I got severely bullied they bullied me for everything off thing in your body the students act like animals, they fight almost everyday, they are way too violent they do not get punished and the students are really racist I could not name one good thing in this school if someone asked me to the bathroom stinks the students steal your stuff the foods that they give does not look edible at all in afterschool instead of them giving you actual snacks they give fruits that looks like they've been sitting for weeks. one again I do not recommend.