Super impressed with the campus, the students, the staff and the school! Looking into moving my…read moredaughter out of the city district and common core into this wonderful private non-religion based school!

I would never recommend a parent send any child to Allendale Columbia School. Many of the local…read morepublic school systems offer a better, more complete, and more supportive environment for children. Here's why: My son was abruptly expelled from Allendale Columbia, and the school has made no attempt to rectify the situation. I'm going to communicate the facts of the situation and let you draw your own conclusions about how students are treated by Allendale Columbia. As background, my son (a first grader) has some mild behavioral issues that I acknowledge can be a challenge to deal with. We were working with the school, my son's pediatrician, and my son's therapist. We were seeing positive improvements and our impression was that things were headed in a good direction. On February 24th, 2021, at approximately noon, I informed Allendale Columbia that we might not be returning to the school for the following school year. On the same day, at 3:45pm, I received a call from Interim Head of School Shannon Baudo. Baudo claimed there had been "an incident" in the after school program, provided few details, and told me that my son was expelled from school effective immediately. He never had a chance to say goodbye to his friends or collect his belongings. We never received a written incident report. Two days later, on February 26th, my wife and I had a phone call with Baudo and the lower school principal Michelle Feiss. By this time, Baudo's story changed, and she insinuated that my six year old son had acted inappropriately towards a girl in the after school program. This is an allegation I take extremely seriously, so I called the parents of the girl, who were not aware of the severity of the situation. The school has still provided no proof, and no written incident report. The school refused to refund any tuition, even the tuition for the portion of the school year we did not receive. Only you can make decisions for your family. However, I feel that I'd be doing a disservice to the parent community in Rochester if I did not make you aware of this event, and the school's callous and abrupt response.

My daughter attends CCB and she seems to enjoy it there. It's hard to compare daycares since, we've…read moremoved her at different ages. However I feel there's a good consistency in the teachers there. They keep "floating" teachers there to a minimum, so it's almost always one of her regular teachers at pick up and drop off. There are good programs to keep the little ones busy. I believe there's a regularly schedule rotation of art and music teachers that rotate through the rooms. They also have a surprisingly robust (and newly renovated) outdoor space and playground for the various rooms. My 2 year old spends a lot of time exploring outdoors in a safe and contained space, which I think is a good thing. CCB does a good job of communicating any changes in schedule, staff and events. It's a relatively big place, but seems to well-organized. They also provide food which is a plus, since meal prepping for our little one was a big time sink and also probably less healthy. Overall I would highly recommend CCB and wouldn't hesitate to send another child there in the future.

Our child felt welcomed, challenged, and at home at CCB quickly and loved her friends and teachers…read morethere. She would frequently go out of her way to see old teachers and say hello to the friendly staff. CCB did everything they could to help our child adapt and grow while there. Any time we had questions the staff and teachers worked together to improve the situation. Besides the excellent care, the facilities and programs were excellent and never felt tired. We felt everyone there was proud to help the center be at its best. People clearly were proud to do the right thing and maintain the reputation that CCB earned over the decades.

This school has been the biggest blessing to my children . We made the jump and the financial…read moresacrifice to switch our children from public school to private schooling and it was worth its weight in gold ! We decided to give our son a transition year and repeat first grade so that he would no longer be the youngest in his grade and the education he is receiving this year has been far superior he is thriving ! When learning his spelling words he is not only doing cross word puzzles , word searches but he is practicing typing out his spelling word on a keyboard. Our son has adhd and his education is no longer cookie cutter they are able to meet my son where he is at. The teachers, principal and staff all know my 3 children by name and love on my children . This is by far the best decision I have ever made for my children and their future .

Attended Our Lady of Lourdes in the 70"s. I do not have fond memories of going there, I was an…read moreoutcast. I was not rich and spoiled like the other students were. I can remember a male classmate walking down the stairs with other students as I was walking up the stairs, he stopped near me laughed hysterically like a maniac and pointed down at my shoes. My shoes were cheap and not pretty. Nobody talked to me or included me, nice Catholic School, right? These student's behaviors were left unnoticed and were never addressed. I was also made fun of as well. So to all my so called classmates where ever you are I hope thru life you were treated better than you treated me God Bless

My child has been going here for a year. I see the progress. I could not have gotten simply things…read moreare done, such as laundry, grocery shopping, even just a clean of the house without the magnificent staff at Marvelous Minds. This year I am adding my 9-year-old son, now that I see the growth in my daughter, I would like to see more in my son. Highly recommended for moms who need a few hours of me-time, or time to catch up on a good book.

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