I believe that you need to downgrade Trinity Catholic in St. Louis, MO (actually, it is located in North County (suburb of St. Louis County/Metropolitan Region), Missouri on Redman. Here is why:
I had to withdraw our daughter from Trinity Catholic, a few days before classes began for several reasons: (1) my daughter wanted to play volleyball. However, since there were not enough freshmen volleyball players, the coach canceled the freshmen volleyball team. This upset my daughter, and my wife. But I still wanted her to attend Trinity until the following other reasons transpired:
(2) Trinity Catholic curriculum is designed for average to below average students. My daughter had an A+ in science & an A in Advance Algebra I in the 8th grade at a public school, but Trinity Catholic representatives wanted her to retake the same classes due to her not doing well on the placement tests. At first, we agreed, but only to find out that this placement test excuse was a smoke screen for the real issue: Trinity Catholic starts all Freshmen in the basic Physical Science course. There is no other option, and no other science course for the 9th grade. Furthermore, once we brought our issue to Administration, they placed our daughter in honors math (because they have more options in math), and wanted to leave our daughter in the basic science course (but not informing us that there is no other options for 9th graders in science, just explaining to us that her science placement test score was low. But you can change her math class but not her science class even though both placement scores were low?)
(3) The public high school, the school that our daughter is now going to be attending, will be starting her off in all honors classes and allowing her to pursue another 4 year science program as well. Here is the kicker: my daughter will be pursuing honors physics in the 9th grade, while at Trinity Catholic, you have to be in the 12th grade (and pay more) for the same honors course (if you think that I am joking, look at their course catalog; its accessible via the website)!
(4) the summer reading book, for incoming freshmen, is a comic book ('American Born Chinese' by Gene Luen Yang), designed for/or can be comprehended by most 6 & 7 graders (or advanced 5th graders). Once I brought this to the attention of Administration, they ignored me by only stating that we are working on changing our curriculum?!?! In the meantime, our daughter, who has a reading level of a high school senior & college freshmen (her scores keep fluctuating; it was at a senior in high school starting the 8th grade, then it was at a college freshmen at the end of 8th grade), has to endure a curriculum (and a book) designed for average or below average students? How will she be able to improve her reading and comprehension and vocabulary skills so that she can get a 1350 or above on the SAT or a 28-30+ on the ACT, reading a book or following a curriculum like this? read more