I am a member of the class of 2025 and I want to share what four years here have felt like from the…read moreinside. The biggest problem is consistency. Rules exist in the handbook but they rarely get enforced in daily life. Students notice this quickly. When deadlines get ignored and consequences rarely follow, effort drops. Many classmates stopped studying because they know they will still pass. Instead of learning material, a lot of students copy work from each other or rely on AI tools to finish assignments and even quizzes. The environment slowly trains people to aim for completion instead of understanding. Teaching quality also varies a lot. Some teachers explain clearly and care about whether students understand. Others rush through slides, assign work without context, and move on whether anyone gets it or not. When students feel lost and no one checks in, they stop asking questions. Over time classes turn into grade management instead of education. Students memorize short term facts, submit work, and forget it immediately after. Lunch is another daily frustration. Prices are high compared to portion size and quality. Meals often feel closer to convenience food than something prepared fresh. I got sick after eating there once and several friends have said the same. The cafeteria also only has two microwaves. Because many students bring food from home, lines stack up fast. Waiting ten minutes is normal and arguments happen over who was first. I have seen people push in front of others and threaten them over a place in line. Staff rarely step in unless it becomes loud. Substance use happens more often than people expect from a private school. Students leave class claiming they need the restroom and go vape or smoke. It is common knowledge which bathrooms people use for this. Yet students almost never get caught. When problems do surface, they tend to disappear quietly. Discipline does not always feel equal either. Some students face harsh punishment while others seem protected. There are also situations where administration response feels more focused on avoiding attention than addressing behavior. Incidents get handled internally and rarely discussed openly with the student body. Because of this, rumors spread and trust drops. Students start believing rules depend on who you are instead of what you did. Tuition is another major concern. The yearly cost is close to college level unless families meet certain religious qualifications for a lower rate. At the same time, resources inside the school do not always match the price. The campus added a new building recently and money feels tight in other areas. Programs shrink, teachers leave, and students notice classes getting larger or combined. From the outside the school looks structured and high achieving. Tours highlight facilities, uniforms, and college acceptance banners. Daily life feels different. Many students focus on getting by instead of improving. Cheating is common, discipline feels uneven, and basic services like lunch and supervision struggle to keep up. After four years here, my honest view is simple. The school has potential and some great teachers, but the overall experience does not match the cost or reputation. Families looking at it should talk to current students and not rely only on appearances.

Let me preface this by saying that I am a senior at PVI in the class of '25. I am not writing this…read moreout of hate, but of experience. Most of the teachers here never enforce rules, nor do they teach in a way that students can easily understand. This latency leads to many students developing (if not already developed) an entitlement ideology, which leads to them using things like chatgpt in order to cheat on assignments and tests because they don't feel like they need to complete them. The cafeteria food is overpriced, not safe for regular consumption, and not that good. I got food poisoning one day because I had something from the cafeteria. They also only have 2 microwaves in the cafeteria for those who wish to reheat food, leading people to either over-pack microwaves or wait upwards of 10 minutes at a time to get their food. I was even threated by another student that he would "slime me" because I wouldn't give him my spot in the microwave line. They have a large drug problem, kids often get out of classes to smoke or vape or huff in the bathrooms, and are not usually caught. The only way this doesn't get out to the public is because they are scarily good at covering up the bad stuff here. During my freshman year one of the male juniors had sex with a female freshman in one of the confessionals and when the school administration found out, only the freshman was expelled and the situation was covered up. The charge what is worth of a college (More than $22k per year), unless you are both baptized and confirmed (I believe it is around $12k per year). They are in a great state of debt due to their latest purchase of a new building and will do anything (including firing a teacher) in order to avoid getting sued. All in all, do not go to this school. Its education prowess is at the same level as a regular, public high school. Most of its students cheat on tests and do not care about having sex or doing drugs at school. It costs outrageous amounts of money and will cover up any discourse in its property. It is all empty looks with nothing going on behind the scenes

The staff at Wings to Fly Therapy and Play Center are professional and ground breaking. My son has…read morespeech therapy with them. He has truly progressed in his communication and his articulation. It is so hard being a parent so it is wonderful to have some help!!

Wings To Fly Therapy Center has been an awesome experience for us. We've been working with Denise…read morethe OT for 2 years now and most recently Kate the SLP. I could not be more pleased with the attention to detail of the providers, feedback to me the parent after each visit, and the progress that my kids have made. Kate is working RPM in conjunction with a home program for one of my boys and we are amazed each week by what he knows and most importantly, that he can now have a way to show us. Denise maintains phenomenal instructional control and works specifics for fine motor improvement, spacial awareness, hand eye coordination etc. I also love that she will try new things to elicit a new response to similar stimuli. She's always thinking of new ways to achieve results. I find the therapists to be "real people", knowledgeable in their trade, professional, and loving towards kids. The atmosphere is another plus. It's a welcoming Center with a waiting room that would put other center's to shame. There are tables to work at your computer, things to keep your other kids occupied and there is also a huge play room with ball pit, trampoline and swings available. The owner knows the world well and lives it daily. That is why she makes every effort to make the experience a great one for not only the kids, yet the families and caregivers who are present also. It's clean, free parking and right off 28 and 66. For us, it's an A+. I am available to chat with anyone who wants more detail from a parent's perspective. If you ask the owner, she can pass on your contact details to me. I'm in there at least once per week!

Solid team of speech therapists that really care and that really taylor the needs to your child…read more Julie is the best!

Julie is the best! Her extensive knowledge and positive energy make her a wonderful therapist. She…read moregoes out of her way to stay in contact with parents and make the child feel like they're just having fun! I would highly recommend Julie to anyone who has a child with a speech or language delay.

My family toured many of the private schools in the area before landing on Nysmith for our child…read more The whole family, including our child, couldn't be happier with our choice. I am a Nysmith alum and know firsthand the value of the education they provide. It's been amazing to see how they've preserved and built upon the core experience and vision that founder Carol Nysmith built. To be clear, I have no incentive to post this review other than to help other families in the area consider Nysmith as a choice for their children. Before we chose Nysmith, e considered and toured a number of schools, including Basis Independent, Flint Hill, Ideaventions, Pinecrest, and Edlin. Most of these are among the top ranked schools in Northern Virginia. We felt that Nysmith had the best blend of factors for our child. - Academics: Nysmith has incredible academics, highly personalized to meet each individual child's needs. Nysmith's roots are in nurturing gifted/talented children, and with that approach comes the understanding that not every child is equally advanced in every subject. Some other schools will assign lots of homework to kids, which isn't really our vision for academic success. We like Nysmith's approach, which is to cultivate and nurture a love of learning rather than to put kids on a treadmill of endless homework. We also like that Nysmith integrates subject matter expertise into their curriculum from kindergarten onward: math experts teach math, science teachers teach science, rather than one teacher teaching all or most subjects - Size: Nysmith is bigger and more established than some of the younger "startup" schools. The classes are big enough that your child will have multiple sections of students to be friends with, they won't be siloed with only 5 or 10 classmates. Teacher ratios are still great - Teachers and Staff: Nysmith's teachers are qualified and smart, which you'll get at most private schools. But there's a key difference: they seem happier and more engaged than at any other school in the area. Retention is incredible: some of the Nysmith teachers have been there for over 25 years - since I was a student in the 90s! - Facilities and resources: Nysmith has a great facility that still has the DNA of a school rather than a country club. The facility is big, the playground is great, everything feels new, bright, and spacious - Community - We're still early in our experience with Nysmith but the PTO seems very engaged with many events scheduled. By reputation, Nysmith has one of the strongest communities of any school in the area

They tout coding and robotics, but their approach is likely to produce robots that code, not…read morecritical thinkers who can innovate. Beneath Ken Nysmith's slick salesmanship and the forced smiles that greet you, lies a far more sinister reality that belies the promise of "joy-filled, personalized learning". If you're seeking a school that truly nurtures your child's heart and mind, look elsewhere! Wellbeing and emotional support are woefully neglected at Nysmith. This place sees no problem in breaking spirits, crushing individuality and forcing students into a rigid mold that stifles their unique potential and confines them to narrow expectations. Question the status quo, and you'll be met with contempt. Conformity is the sole currency valued here! Think The Bible, Torah, or Quran -- immutable and infallible. . . I have met a few great teachers but admin pressure seems to leave them little bandwidth to connect, coach, or inspire students (despite the low student-to-teacher ratios). Humans are wired to thrive in safe, supportive spaces where even mistakes become stepping stones to learning. Nysmith is NOT that space. You've been warned!

We just love this place! Our daughter received OT and SP here for 5+ years. The owners and staff…read moreare all excellent people who really care about your kiddo. We highly recommend this place! They are in the Tricare/HealthNet network, which is GREAT being that they're in close proximity to Fort Belvoir!

This is my first time writing a review which indicates how strongly I feel about the services we…read morereceive at Exceptional Children's Center. Although the DC/MD/VA area is saturated with occupational and speech therapists, ECC stands above all others. Our son not only receives quality services from a therapist trained in dealing with young children through adolescents, but ECC's selection of these therapists is incomparable. ECC's therapists are not only up to date in the latest proven methods but are all caring, compassionate individuals who invest in your child. The benefits our son receives through ECC extend far beyond OT services. He's built a relationship with his OT which motivates and inspires him as a person. Our family is truly blessed to have found ECC.

Mixed bag. There are people there that know what they're doing and were really good with my kid…read more Downside, they had an extremely high turn over rate, and he got a few he absolutely didn't want to work with. One therapist was late almost consistently for sessions by 15-20 minutes and would check out on time. About two therapists my child absolutely loved but left to go elsewhere. Another one my child tried to run out on. Personally, for my child, he needed more constancy instead of seeing someone new each quarter and getting to know yet another person to continue to strive in obtaining his goals.

I love this school I only was here for one year and but best teachers and staff and principal hard…read moreworking making a difference in the world and but they need to UPGRADE inside and outside of the building seriously it hasn't been updated ever! It is time UPGRADE everything inside and out from the small things to big things plus have us travel leave about different cultures and make a difference in the community and need to volunteer at different organizations for all the kids and go to zoo's so we should help animals save them and some ideas and plus time to upgrade are Field we need to volunteer at animal shelters so we have then save them adopt them too seriously plus more museums learn about the cultures and plus work in food banks service those in need seriously so that we can help feel good about what we are doing for our community that is starting with kids teens and young adults I am just giving some more ideas to help expand the mind of the High schools middle plus elementary schools seriously and make sure all kids with disabilities get to experience the same things as normal students do too. We need to have famous celebrities coming to our schools so we can learn and ask questions plus teach us what not to do in life NO DRUGS NO DRINKING! Have our police and fire fighters need to come every few weeks and so we can remember things. We need have a day dedicated those with special needs and disabilities at broad run High school I miss you so much and my second home thank you so for everything I learned and plus come with students to Loudoun therapeutic ridding center help volunteer learn with clean and lead horses and etc clean the barn paint etc. Love Lauren

I've gone here since 7th grade and am in my freshman year currently. It's an amazing school, with…read morean amazing band program in both middle and high school. All of the teachers I have had have been great and extremely accommodating.

I graduated from this hell hole last year, '25. And has been quite possibly the worst high school…read moreI've ever been to. I've been the multiple high schools before as I am a military student and as I was PCS from California to Virginia where I am now I was excited because you know big school new friends hallelujah right? Wrong. So getting into the school as a military student, they fucked up my transcript and all my credits so my mother and I had to fight to get my credits transferred from California to Virginia because they've never done this before. Excuse me you are a purple star, School and you've never done this before with the military student. Are you insane? Anyways the only reason there are purple star school is because I spoke at the purple star like speech thing and so you know that's something I did by the way. So I came in second semester of sophomore year, so I finished that my geometry teacher was my favorite teacher of all time at the school no doubt about it. If we're talking the arts program, I personally was a choir kid which is really good and we were able to grab our numbers in the three years from when I joined so that was good. Fast-forward to junior year around mid early October shit started happening. I'm very religious. I am a Jew. I am very proud of my Jewishness, in a very proud of the people that I surround myself with as a Jew. My friend got Nazi salute that on a bus they were small because everywhere I got hate crime. Multiple of my other Jewish friends got hate crimes and my parents had to go up to the school and threaten them to keep me and my friend safe because I did not want to go to school. My mental health got so bad during this time. Period that I had to wake up and tear myself out of my bed because that's how fucking bad the administration of this fucking school did not handle antisemitism or racism because it wasn't just antisemitism because there were multiple people making multiple comments about so many other things that surrounding me my friend group I was pissed junior year flies by I fucking hate crime. I have to have this whole conversation with a girl who said some fuck shit to me in front of my friends I was talking to them and I got fucking pissed right fast-forward to senior year. My friend goes into the boys bathroom and there is still a swastika from the previous school year. there have been multiple swat sightings throughout, said school year and there has been nothing done about it. The only person who really did anything about anything was my parent and Miss Hampton because those are the people who actually looked out for your children and who actually looked out for me in my family so no the school is a fucking piece of shit. The admin are absolutely insane. It won't do anything about anything. Anyways, this school sucks don't go here. I'm so fucking mad at the school.

My kid have been going to Education One for a few months now, and really like it. Their grades,…read moreespecially homework, have really gone up because they go twice per week to get help with homework.

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