We loved AESA Prep and the entire staff. They've created a loving and supportive environment for…read morestudents to thrive in. The small classroom sizes made it possible for our daughter to get the individualized attention she needed. We loved Ms Caro, both Mr Leals, Mr Garcia, Ms Carrie...... Thank you all for loving and caring for our girl.

This school may look beautiful and impressive on the surface, but my experience with the enrollment…read moreprocess was deeply disappointing and, frankly, heartbreaking. My daughter's enrollment was handled extremely poorly. When I began asking about scholarship opportunities, communication essentially stopped from Sara Solomon knowing that I was on a timeline for Tefa vouchers to choose a school. I text messaged her from 9 in the morning till 9 at night five text messages and she did not respond until I said I had the money to pay for the other half of enrollment tuition by that point she probably couldn't get a hold of the director but instead of taking accountability, she completely ignored me after saying she would reach out to director of the school to accept the Tefa voucher. My calls and emails went unanswered, and even after I contacted Barbara, the owner directly, I experienced the same lack of response. I spent a week trying to get information, not knowing if the enrollment was accepted from their end for our voucher That was especially troubling when the situation involved a child's education and future. What disappointed me most was the apparent lack of consideration, transparency, and basic professionalism. Families deserve to be treated with honesty and respect, particularly when they are trying to make important decisions about their child's education. If financial assistance is not available, that can be communicated honestly. Ghosting a family instead is unacceptable. The campus may be aesthetically impressive, but appearances mean very little if the people responsible for serving families do not communicate or demonstrate compassion and integrity. I would strongly encourage prospective families to look beyond the beautiful presentation and ask how the school actually treats families when circumstances become complicated. Based on my experience, I did not feel valued, respected, or treated with the level of decency I would expect from an educational institution entrusted with children's futures. I'm a big believer of karma and how you treat others. What goes around must come back around. This is not the way you treat human beings. Very disappointing experience. I would not recommend this school based on how my daughter and I were treated.

terrible school. i've been going to bailey for 2 years and it's almost the end of 7th. councilors…read moreare the worst. they say they will take things "seriously" but the don't unless it's life threatening. i understand they think that's more important but the small things can lead up to endangerment. i had a boy call me a fa**ot 5 times and it took them 5 weeks to take care of it. not to mention that boy had no consequences at all. not even lunch detention, even when i mentioned when he was bullying a kid with autism. the councilors really don't care. i have bad ADHD and people talk a lot in class and bully me and when i went to the councilors for help and explained thoroughly they called me "lazy." i don't trust the councilors with anything. also a very small percentage of the staff is kind to their students. i had a piece of candy and a teacher grabbed my wrist and dumped it in the trash can. when i reported the incident she said "if you complain to the principal i'll give you a referral." mind you i reported it 10 times to the principal, vice principal, and other head staff. guess what happened? nothing. kids get bullied constantly and picked on for whatever. i don't even feel safe at that school. in 6th grade i had a teacher yell at my class of 5 students who were very kind every day even when we completed our work and listened. we weren't talking or anything. he yelled at me for asking where to submit my assignments. also he called our class "trash" and "r*******" and me and several students reported each over 5 times. guess what happened? not anything until the end of the year. not to mention some substitutes are homophobic and very rude. next topic, they have terrible pests and don't pay to get rid of them. rats behind the bleachers, scorpions, and tons of cockroaches!!! anyway, if you read this, would not recommend to send your kid here. it's terrible and not a healthy environment.

Administration does a great job at running the school. Staff/Faculty is very kind, knowledgeable,…read morepassionate, and caring. The students here are EVERYTHING. It's been a pleasure to have been able to work with both students and teachers.

Waldorf is such a wonderful education. Unfortunately if the teacher is not great (or going through…read morepersonal crisis and has a large and demanding class) your child will suffer. Steiner's view was to nurture the soul of the child and unfortunately Austin Waldorf is seeming more budget focused and the teacher for our grade certainly really let us down and did not even have the care for us as a family to speak with us directly. I would avoid this particular Waldorf.

Beautiful campus with beautiful traditions. It is easy to get swept up in the idea of the school…read more Met the most wonderful, involved, and caring parents and a couple of wonderful teachers too. This school, however has absolutely failed my children academically. If you have a child that is neurodiverse, this school cannot meet their needs. If you have a child that is gifted, they will not be able to meet their full potential. The class sizes are at 30-33 in 1st and 2nd grade! My child's teacher assured us multiple times that my child would get the help they need. In the end my child's teacher, who had been his teacher for 1.5 years "strongly encouraged" us to find a new school midyear, with no warning. All of the previous reassurance, that they had resources for his learning needs, from her swept away. Now the same teacher is asking for parent volunteers to go in and teach children, not their own, to read. She cannot meet the needs of these children, yet you will not hear this, when the class size concern is brought up at parent meetings. You will be reassured over and over until your child has fallen so far behind, they need multiple interventions to catch up to where they should be or where they were before they started this school. My daughter was advanced for her age before this school. She requested to go back to homeschooling. She would sit in class, at AWS, with her hand raised and never get any help. She was quiet and not one of the louder children yelling out for help. She said she could not focus and would get pushed around by the boys on the playground. The school purposely holds children back from progressing "too fast." They have reasons for this. The issue is the class sizes hinder the children from moving as quickly as they need to, given the Waldorf methods, when they reach the appropriate age/grade level to do so; and they refuse to change. You will hear promises of expanding the grades to have fewer children in the classroom. This has been a promise for years. They have yet to follow through and deny any issues, even though there are many. The teachers do not fight for their students. The office staff is sweet, but when you get down to the people truly in charge, they only care about money.

The LTISD Police Department completed an investigation and has submitted that report to the…read moreAssistant District Attorney's Office for review. At this time, we have not received a final determination from the Assistant District Attorney's Office. -Fox7 saying her son told "a couple of teammates in his football team" that his allergy to peanuts could kill him if he were to touch them or would kill him if they were put in his cleats or uniform. "These two boys then drove over to the high school locker room that evening and did exactly that. They filled his cleats with peanuts and in his locker and in his uniform in the varsity locker room," Mannon said. She said when her son opened the locker to get his uniform, the peanuts started falling and he set everything down in shock and left. Her son then noticed hives on his arms. -KXAN Other Lake Travis parents close to the family said the incident was recorded. Because the students involved are minors, the district said it can't release what kind of discipline the two players are facing, but parents at Wednesday's meeting said it was a two-week suspension resulting in the players sitting out one game. -yahoo Carter, 15, and a few teammates from the suburban Austin school were discussing where the bus should stop for dinner. One of the players suggested Texas Roadhouse. But Carter piped up that he couldn't go to a place famous for peanuts because of his peanut allergy. The next day, October 6, the team showed up to dress for the game and get on the bus. One of the previous day's questioners began flicking something at Carter. He looked at the ground - it was peanuts! Carter recalled saying: "Dude, knock it off. Why would you do that?" Carter headed to the school's big indoor field, and saw one of the kids who had been teasing him. Mannon says this teen "had taken a video of the other boy putting the peanuts in my son's locker." He was showing it to other teammates, laughing about "this is what we did to Carter." (While some laughed, others said, "this is not OK. You could have killed him.") That's when Carter was certain of who was behind the peanut placing. It was later determined that the boy who took the can of peanuts to the locker had poured them over Carter's cleats. (Mannon says someone went back and dumped out the cleats - but peanut dust remained.) The coach gave Carter a new jersey and cleats so he could play. "But he still had hives on his arm when he got home," says Mannon. -Allergic Living

The food traumatised me. How do they think children want to eat this. Also there's black mold…read moreeverywhere.

When your kid is insisting to go to school even though he is under the weather, you know you found…read morea special place. My son is now a second grader at School On The Rise and I am so happy about how he is nurtured and loved in this small school. The teachers are very experienced Waldorf teachers and the environment is homey and safe. Nature and outdoors is main pilar and movement is another. These all make the school a magical place to grow in. Highly recommend this school.

We are so grateful we found The School on The Rise. Our son joined it last year in the middle of…read morethe school year as a 9 year old who didn't read, write and was not able to do any math beyond adding, subtracting simple numbers. Even tho he still has learning difficulties, he is reading at his level now, he is doing difficult math problems, understanding fractions, and slowly starting to write. Kids play in the woods, build things, make things, the art and creativity is very present. You cannot underestimate Ms and Mr Darcy's 30 years experience in woldorf education. They have seen it all and they are incredible at what they do. The school feels like a little piece of haven for kids to play, learn and developed. And probably the biggest reason we are such big fans is School on the Rise is the small classroom environment, where kids were able to cultivate strong friendships. They truly care for each other, it is the sweetest environment. We highly recommend.

Amazing school, with amazing founder and teachers! Truly focused on your kid(s) and their learning…read morejourney, and providing a safe, inclusive and positive space for education, growth and community. Doc Flynn has created something special here, come check it out.

From the owner: Hedge School Coop is an inclusive, secular microschool re-imagining education and instilling a…read morelifelong love of learning. We are passionate about creating a communal learning experience that empowers the leaders of tomorrow to be compassionate, critical thinkers and creators. We offer 2 day and 4 day in person programs, call us today to schedule a tour or shadow day.

The best part of Westlake High School are the teachers. They are truly amazing. The worst part of…read morethe school is the athletic program. It is a pay-to-play mentality. They also discriminate against student athletes that do not fit their mold.

Westlake high school is an amazing public school, there's one thing that has me concerned. The…read morefreedom of the students and how they have many people watching there every move it invokes anxiety even paranoia sometimes, even if a student isn't doing anything wrong they make them feel like they're guilty of something there not.