This is our first year at Lewis and this has been the most pleasantly positive and easy…read moreexperiences. Our kiddo is coming from a Montessori preschool setting, which ended up being very difficult for us. The school has offered us all the support, welcoming staff and families, lots of wonderful programs, that are all wonderful. Lewis promotes diversity-love-support to students & families from all backgrounds (they stand t true to the their word about being inclusive, unlike other schools that just throw the word around, but do not hold true to). All of the kids are so friendly to one another. It definitely has more of an arts feel to it. The facility is very secure, and the classrooms are very clean & full of natural daylight. Our student is also blessed with a 16 student classroom vs 25 students for the school we were slated to go to that us east of here.

an amazing school with great teachers I was a student there and had a great time. Music program has…read morelots of marimba and singing wide range of books in the library and really fun and enjoyable games in PE

We've had such a great experience with the preschool at St. Ignatius! We get daily updates through…read moreSeesaw, as well as reminders. The teachers, Matt and Ash, have been fantastic - so kind, patient, and clearly love what they do. Our child feels safe, supported, and excited to go to school every day, which says a lot! They have gone above and beyond to make sure she thrives both socially and academically. Also, because it's a PreK-8, they get access to library, PE and Music class! She comes home every other day with a story about something she learned in PE, a new song that is stuck in her head or wonderful book that she wants to tell us about. We also love that the preschoolers get chances to interact with the older kids during their family group time - This is going to help make the transition to Kindergarten a lot easier! Since our daughter is just about to turn 4, she will be completing a second year of Pre-K in the 2025-2026 school year and we are all very excited she gets another year with Matt, Ash and many of the friends she has made this year!

Our child is only in pre school at St. Ignatius, but we have been very happy with their pre school!…read moreWhen looking for a pre school in the neighborhood, I Googled things like "Portland preschools near by" and St. Ignatius did not pop up. Many of the pre schools that did pop up were small mom and pops with little or no availability. With no previous experience with St. Ignatius, I finally specifically searched this local school after getting waitlisted elsewhere and we signed up for it. The teachers and staff are amazing. Very loving towards the children and communicate excellent with families. They even provide multiple pictures every day via the Seesaw app so we know exactly what she is doing every day! Highly recommend St. Ignatius!

Here is a haiku about Puddletown: Perfect, wonderful…read more and exciting just as well you should join right now! I joke, but it really is an amazing school. I have attended for 9 years and the community, the experiences and the curriculum are all great. Please enroll in the middle school program there so I am not a lonely 8th grader next year... - A Puddletown Student

My daughter joined the Elementary program at age 6 after enjoying several years at another…read moreMontessori preschool. The transition was very smooth and now in her 3rd year there, she's still doing wonderfully. The community (parents, administration, teachers, support staff) are all relaxed and intelligent people that clearly love and value children. The Montessori philosophy and learning environments are authentic and beloved by the children. There's plenty of interaction between the children and the outdoors, with fun interactive garden experiences and an interesting outdoor play area. Tuition is the same as most other Montessori schools, and they offer before and after care, and plenty of opportunities for parents to volunteer. Good times!

Just what we were looking for. We moved to Portland a year…read moreago, and after having had a good look at PPS decided that we wanted to see more movement, more music, more art, more green space, and most importantly more capacity to focus on the individual needs of our kids in their school. Our older one was about to start 1st grade, and the quality of the introduction into more serious learning (she has been in various international schools for 3 years) was very important to us. We did not want her to be one of 32 children for this important step, nor have PE once a week, and arts and music being relegated to add-ons dependent on funding. My younger child would attend pre-k, and here too a caring and nurturing environment with many opportunities for play was what we were looking for. We found it all at Tucker Maxon, and after a year there are still very happy with our choice. It's a caring, diverse school (more so than PPS) filled with great teachers. Mrs Humphrey was phenomenal in grade 1, and our son had not one but three great teachers in his pre-school class (of 12 kids total). I find the curriculum interesting and appropriate and have regularly volunteered in math class, which was a lot of fun. We had some issues with the amount of home work that after deliberations was reduced, and that worked out really well. The school is excellent at getting parents involved and creating a community. My kids look forward to school, something they never did before. They know all of the kids in their school, many by name and love hanging out in the playground after school is done, playing with kids across ages and classes, never in a hurry to leave. That to me is the biggest compliment a school can get.

This school contains many stellar educators. However, the administrative functions are…read moredisorganized, capricious, incompetent and outright disrespectful to their teachers and parents. We had a child in their preschool program. Enrollment was complete chaos: they promised us space in the after care program, assured us there would be plenty, then forgot to add our name to an email list serv for families so we never received the email asking to register. We had to beg and plead for a spot for extended day so that I could continue full time at my work. Their emails to families never come from one person, sometimes it's the head of school, sometimes the CEO, sometimes the librarian. It makes it so confusing and to this day my husband is still not receiving emails that I do, and vice versa, seemingly randomly. During our year of enrollment the preschool encountered numerous challenges and communication to parents was abysmal. Our classroom flooded and randomly had to be closed for more than a week. There were issues with the "lunch program" which is I guess adequate calorie wise, but truly pitiful. Many staff and families feel that the admin leadership, Director of School to be specific, sees the PFA program as a cash cow, but does very little to improve or support the preschool division. (And there's a question about whether they really are in compliance with all of PFA mandates). Half of the enrollment at this school is the preschool. Our beloved teacher raised many concerns with their leadership team and was ultimately fired for being a squeaky wheel, and she was literally the only reason we could recommend this place. After this school year none of the families I know will re enroll and many of the preschool staff are planning on quitting. All that said, I believe that TM has the ability to reform and I sincerely hope they do, because I believe that the educators have skills and experience and the grounds of the school are incredible.

I loooooove to blame any and all social retardations I might have today on the fact that it all…read morestarted in grade school. Goddamn, kids are mean! And guess what? Some of those things that they say...and some of the crap that they pull...it sticks with you into adulthood. I'll tell you a secret: No one ever told me I was cool until I was in high school. And I was shocked the first time it happened. Anyway...my experience there alone has had me debating for about 45 minutes how many stars I would give this school. Two? Three? Is that mean? What if people from there read this? I mean, my fam's still part of the parish. Okay, so after a long think, I've decided on four stars. And it's not the fear that someone I'm connected to through the school/parish will read this. Because really, I'm rating the education I received, too, not just the snotty, rich classmates (several of whom now seem to be very nice people and productive to society). My life has been sort of one long chain of events, and looking back, I can see how one has affected the other. I had an edge in college because I went to St. Mary's Academy and worked ridiculously hard. And I had an edge at St. Mary's because of the rigid curriculum I was put through at Holy Family. You heard me. It was a rigid curriculum! I can't say that I loved all of my teachers, but I was doing manual long division in fourth grade. I can't honestly say that I can even remember how to do that NOW because we're all so dependent on calculators. Everyone feared sixth grade because that was when everything changed...you were in the upper-grade wing...and you had homework to match your new status. (And in eighth grade, my parents invested in my reliable Kelty backpack just so I could carry all my books.) I took writing classes there (hell, I was learning MLA in seventh grade!), my creativity was encouraged to grow (I still have an eighth-grade art project framed on my wall), and I gained major critical-thinking skillz (they even had a class devoted to it!). When I moved on to high school, I thought, "Heck! Is this *IT*?! I've had harder tests in Mrs. McCarty's science class." The other thing that I love, in retrospect, is that the classes are relatively small, and you really get one teacher for most of your classes each year. And they've made Spanish-language classes a requirement. And a lot of kids from Tucker-Maxon went there, so we were also introduced to the deaf community. So really, if you take out the social aspect (and the fact that I leached onto altar serving and youth group as a consolation), Holy Family really did give a very good education that I would recommend to any parents in the Southeast area.

Holy Family is a game changer! It welcomes everyone in with a smile and a "Hey there how's your day…read moregoing?" I would totally recommend going there to any parent that's scared about their son or daughter changing schools trust me it's great! My daughter changed schools in first grade and now she's in 6th she has made so many memories and loves it there!

I didn't know anything about Montessori before enrolling my kids at Sunstone. I am now a…read morefull-fledged convert to the Montessori method. This school has been fantastic for our children--not only are they learning but, more importantly, they are developing a love of learning. They have gone from feeling indifferent to school to doing long division at home for fun, or begging us to sign them up for after school classes.

We didn't know much about Montessori before enrolling our son at Sunstone Montessori four years…read moreago. We've appreciated the wealth of parent education nights that have informed us about the absolute brilliance that is Montessori education. Wow, Maria Montessori. Each time we're at the school for parent education or some sweet gathering for families, we feel starry eyed and grateful to be able to have our kids at a Montessori school. On top of that, Sunstone is a great community of compassionate people. The year is full of sweet community events and seasonal gatherings. My kids look forward to school the great majority of their days and come home proud of the research/math/knitting or other awesome things they've done. The guides are all excellent, committed and caring, and clearly like family with each other. Truly my only complaint is that I wish we could walk there! And I wish they'd start a high school!

Absolutely fantastic! I wish every child had a school experience like ours. Kindergarten has been a…read moredream, very play based, lots of art. The curriculum is introduced using the story line approach. The school follows positive discipline techniques for behavior challenges. We feel listened to when problems arise and supported.

Five years later, my daughter is still being harassed--and I've learned that simply calling someone…read more'racist' doesn't repair the damage or foster real understanding. I fully support Cleveland High's commitment to equity, but I believe our community deserves genuine learning, not symbolic gestures. What happened: The culinary teacher asked a volunteer to "give Alfonso a face," handing a white student a mold created during a prior unit on ethnic heritage. That student piped on icing, then classmates--including my daughter--posed for a photo with the finished cake, unaware it evoked blackface. Meanwhile, Black students and their families saw a painful reminder of a history of dehumanization. How it blew up: The teacher encouraged everyone to post their work online, and the image--three white students holding a blackface cake--sparked immediate outrage. Administrators lumped it in with noose and swastika graffiti, never noting it was a classroom assignment. Local and national media quickly labeled three "racist white girls" trying to sell their creation. The principal held a rally condemning hate, but when students asked why there had been no suspensions or other consequences for the girls, she replied the incident was still "under investigation"--the results were never made public. The restorative circle: Five days after the incident, the principal finally convened a circle with the Black Student Union--without the culinary teacher present or any disclosure that the blackface cake had been a classroom assignment. Rather than using that space to examine how the curriculum, the teacher's directives, and the school's broader white-supremacist culture enabled this harm, administrators chose the easiest narrative: framing it solely as an intentional hate act. By lumping it in with noose and swastika graffiti and placing full blame on three students, they sidestepped any meaningful discussion of systemic failings and missed the chance to acknowledge their own institutional responsibility to families of color. That circle proved the most instructive experience of my daughter's two years at Cleveland--she emerged with profound new insights--but it also violated restorative justice's fundamental principle that all parties share their stories. What followed: Despite appealing to the PPS school board for answers, they declined to comment, citing teacher protections and "student privacy." At the same time, our daughter was already receiving death threats--and under the "impact matters, not intent" framework, any public explanation risked making things worse for her. Fearing for her safety, we chose not to speak to the media. My daughter left the PPS system after 10th grade. The incident profoundly changed her perspective on institutional racism--but most of her classmates never gained that insight What this says about Cleveland High: This episode could have been a teachable moment for all students about how white supremacy continues to shape school culture--from blackface molds to one‐off "culture fairs" unmoored from curriculum. Instead, students were shamed without real instruction. Bottom line: Cleveland High's response was incomplete. I share this so that, if another school faces something similar, it chooses education and transparency over mere symbolism. Honest conversations are the only way forward.

this school is pissing me off this school cant make rules im gonna switch my kids outta of this…read moreschool i told my friends to switch theres kids beacuse this school is horrible the new rule of being late to class IS BAD IDEA and slow my daughter was like 1 mins late to class and they shut there door right at her face and made her go back to the office to get a yellow pass for her to enter the class the made her 10 times more late this school