I honestly cannot believe what our experience has been like with Newtown Friends School. It was…read morerecommended to us by an acquaintance whose children attend there and love it. Small classes, progressive values such as inclusivity and diversity, values that so much seemed to reflect our own. It just so happens that our fourth grader was the victim of a crime over the summer before attending this new school. His behavior was affected by this event and, initially, NFS staff, using their language of partnership and collaboration, provided support that had an immediate positive impact. As they expressed a willingness to collaborate with us so did they decide NOT to actually collaborate. The simple recommendation was to keep the support in place and unchanged for a number of months. For whatever their reason, they chose not to do so. This immediately set our child up for failure as they made changes to the support that was working perfectly. Despite our efforts to collaborate, they simply changed it with no regard to what would work for our son. As a result, he was basically set up for failure. Our bright and motivated 9-year-old boy was never in so much trouble as he was at NFS. He was clearly under their critical microscope and their lack of understanding, empathy and unwillingness to work with him was both shocking and obvious. We decided that this school was definitely not a match for him or for our family. The values that they tout are good on paper but our experience is that none of them were genuine and there was no caring about our child, family or experience. "Teaching the whole child", and all of their "partnership", was chewed up and spit out along with us. But they made a point of keeping our.overpayment. Please know that NFS collects tuition fully in advance of the school year being complete. So if you invest in this place for your child's education and well-being, be prepared to lose your money if your child is deemed not good enough by those on high in administration. A sad reflection of Quaker values equating to a complete and total lack of empathy, enormous hypocrisy and obvious greed.

There seem to be two entries for Newtown Friends School, the only difference being the full…read moreaddress. Be sure to check both locations until Yelp combines these two.

In addition to being the public elementary school for this part of Newtown, and the polling place…read morefor surrounding neighborhoods, the gymnasium is where the Council Rock Basketball Association 7th Grade teams practice during the week. Goodnoe is currently being expanded and renovated. The removal of the "temporary" classroom trailers is long overdue. When completed, Goodnoe will again be a state of the art educational facility.

This school was horrible the bathrooms were disgusting the teachers are mean and I heard that they…read morefavor the other kids. They also made it a bad place the food there is like bad they overprice it and it is disgusting and they don't know how to help the kids with disorders. They also do not help kids if they problems lifting their bag up or down the stairs they make the kids struggle!

Horrible school they had teachers who favorite the "rich" students they would make the non favorite…read morestudents do more the work. They even made some kids really sick and they don't know how to help kids with disabilities!

Ranked in the top 165 school districts in the United States out of 10,500, CRSD covers five…read moremunicipalities - Newtown Township, Newtown Borough, Upper Makefield and Wrightstown in lower Central Bucks County, PA. It spends over $12,000 a year per student, making it one of the highest paid teacher corps in the country. Property taxes go primary to the school district to educate their 12,000 students. In the Commonwealth the school districts have taxing authority and are not dependent on the local government for their funding. The idea was to keep our kid's education away from the politicians and in the hands of professionals. In truth, it just makes the school board more political. Still, if quality education is what you seek for your children, it is what you receive here. More than 90% of the two high schools send graduates on to colleges and universities. As a result, these towns are very popular with young families willing and able to pay the local school taxes, which remain lower than surrounding states despite the almost annual increases and the related rising home prices. CRSD is the primary draw for people moving to the area. It has made these communities very desirable places to live. My family arrived long enough ago to afford a nice home here. These days it might well be unaffordable.