All my three years going there we went through three principal in general. Mr.Brown is the best gym…read moreteacher. They need to upgrade/update there school food. More staff especially EAs. Stop locking the bathrooms during lunch. Pay the teachers better.

Not sure what Ryan S. really knows about the school but my two students are able to function quite…read morewell. I like the mix of structured and self learning. Students are learning to self-direct instead of sleeping through lecture after lecture like I did way back when. The students navigate well on their IPads and if you're a parent that wants to know what's going on you certainly have opportunities to stay informed. Nice facility, good teachers, and an involved community. This place has been like a second home to my two sons.

Our exchange student went here this last year, so everything you're about to read is coming from…read moresomeone who did not actually attend the school. The school seems completely unorganized and chaotic. They attempt to be a school of the 21st century, but they fail miserably. There is little to no printed information given to students about anything. Everything is handled via these dumb iPads the taxpayers wasted their money on, but sometimes they don't work. As parents, we just felt out of the loop, as everything the teachers do happens on these iPads. The school schedule changes from day to day, with classes starting at one time on a Monday or Tuesday, and then starting at a completely different time on any other day. The students are given chunks of free time and are expected to manage that time like they were "in a career setting," but they mostly just wonder the halls and play games and text on these iPads. They have WAY too much free time at this school. They have things like "academic support" and "RAMP." I couldn't tell you the first thing about "RAMP" other than it's sponsored by the U of M and it's some kind of mandatory college prep thing that helps walk your kid through applying for schools and loans. (Which to a foreign exchange student is completely useless.) I can tell you that if it were my child attending that school, I would have some serious problems with the way things seem to work there. I know schools have changed since I graduated in 99, but this place is an absolute mess.

Teachers are very impressive! Thank you for motivating and challenging our kids. Go Tigers!!read more

I was sexually harassed my sophomore year and they didn't do anything about it. I also got hit by…read morean Apple during lunch time because there was a food fight, they found the guy responsible but nothing was done about it. Principals and administration doesn't care about the students.

I was there for 2 years, 1st was great because I had a couple of D/HH - Deaf and Hard of Hearing…read morefriends and I had a great support from staff but there were like not enough help. 2nd year was worse because they didn't require all of my needs because Prepich the new school district took over they made the program worse and worse. But still improving, however the program that the previous school district had was a fantastic program, and bam different school district took over and destroyed the program as time passed through. They ruined the COOL FACTOR of Crosswinds. The Theater program is destroyed and it's after school instead of during, and plus the school district brought a company to run the theater program. Now my favorite teacher from there can't run it anymore because of that stupid school district brought that stupid company. I think the Art classes are gone or not i don't know, I can't confirm. Anyways I don't recommend this school is worse now then back in 1997-2013 belonged to E-MID school district. 2013- is now belongs to stupid school district Perpich school district. So yeah I don't recommend this school at some points but not fully. Btw it's a year round school year and I like that school started at 9:30 AM - 4:00PM and that rocked.

I graduated about ten years ago, so it may be quite different, but I am so very grateful that I got…read morethe opportunity to go to high school here! When a lot of people think of private Catholic schools, they think of rich white preppy kids and extremely conservative environments. Sure, there are kind who are well-off and sure there are some preppy kids, but when I was there it was a mix of socioeconomic and culturally/racially diverse backgrounds. The school was also very progressive - we had GLBT club and had people of a variety or religious backgrounds who were all welcomed. My favorite course was Brother David's World Religions course. It helped to shape who I am today more than any other course I have taken - including my college courses. I am very proud to be an Islander and only hope to be able to give this experience to my children as well!

I have had 2 children attend DeLaSalle. Over the years they have been students, it has changed from…read morea school with an emphasis on community and college preparation to one focused on athletics. If athletics is your goal, you would be better off at Cretin. If religion is why you pick a parochial school, you would be better off at Concordia. For academics, you would be better at Minnehaha or SPA. Why go to De now?

If I didn't (obviously) know better, I might think that Kenwood Elementary was a private school…read more The attention and love that every teacher shows the kids and the amount of involvement of the parents & families is on a scale I have never seen in an urban public school. To be fair, my comparisons are in Philadelphia and NYC but even compared to other public Minneapolis schools, Kenwood is head & shoulders above the rest! I've just returned from their annual back-to-school open house and BBQ. After the summer off, it was like a family reunion. My daughter will be starting 1st Grade and we are just thrilled. While waiting for our ride home, a dad and his son and my daughter and I were playing at the park across the street. The man told me that with the bus rezoning, his old address was no longer in the Kenwood bussing zone. So he checked out Jefferson...and then moved. To a new home, within the Kenwood bussing zone. That's how dedicated you and yours will become to this old-fashioned-in-the-right-ways and cutting-edge-in-others fabulous school. Every year they consistently score above every other school in the city- and they also take their arts education just as seriously as all the book-like studies. I once had a parent of a girl in my kid's kindergarten transfer her child to another school. When I asked why she said she thought it was "too clique-y". I highly and wholeheartedly disagree! Kenwood welcomes everyone, with open arms, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion or socio-economic circumstances. And I may be one of the few, but I do not like school uniforms and thankfully Kenwood does not use them. The one thing that kept me from giving a 5-star review are the school hours. 7:30 a.m. start time is just sooo early.......ugh! I'm editing this review as my kid is now in 5th Grade at Kenwood and I feel it's only fair to follow up in case parents of kids are considering Kenwood as an Elementary choice. Let's just say that the bloom has gone off the rose a bit since my last posting. To be fair, Kenwood and it's staff/educators are bound by the limitations that the Board of Ed put on them so I always try to keep that in mind--and because of that, and that the other complaint is actually more of a parent/neighborhood issue, I kept the stars at 4. I wound up having to hire outside tutors to supplement my daughter's education but because she is dyslexic. If your child isn't learning different, then thank your lucky stars and enjoy their curriculum (that sadly, since my last posting, is no longer geared as much towards art--they've lost their "Arts" status) but still has loads of cool things like an African drumming workshop, Taiko drumming workshop and field trips to cool places like museums and nature conservatories. The 5th Graders go on an overnight trip to Eagle Bluff which my daughter has been excited about since kindergarten. The media center uses iMacs that seem about 3 years old on average. The teachers are, for the most part, friendly and competent but sadly for you dear reader the very best, Mrs. Kohanek, retired the year after my kid had her. I'm sure you'll find your own favorite however. As for any special help your child might need, Ms. Kelly is very nice and has helped my daughter as best as she can but, we just now are only beginning to understand how the dyslexic brain "sees" and what a dyslexic student needs to thrive and, for my kid, and I feel confident in saying, any other kid, it's not Kenwood. But, to be fair, it's not any American public school that I know of. The social side of Kenwood is kind of brutal. Ironically, I mentioned in my first posting about a lady who said Kenwood was "clique-y". I didn't see it with Kindergarten. The kids didn't care who lived where or had what. The parents were all just meeting one another. It was wonderful. But by 1st Grade the lines were drawn. If you live in Kenwood, you are top tier as far as social status goes, and most of those parents are running the volunteer show--PTA., yearbook, Newsletter, helping with school plays, etc. If you're rich but live elsewhere, you're 2nd tier--of course being good looking helps too but not necessary. And the only color that matters at Kenwood is the color green. They are very "liberal". If you live outside Kenwood and aren't flaunting wealth- 2 bad. Those kids are at the bottom. You can try to volunteer, like I did, but I didn't get far. I never got replies to inquiries on times of meetings etc. Whenever I would email an exciting thing that my kid was doing (she acts in a troupe that brings awareness to homelessness) that they might want to mention in the school newsletter, I wouldn't get a reply much less get it run. A confidence boost like that would help my kid a lot. But who knows, maybe you'll get warmer neighborhood parents. I hope so.

New nurse is a word that is not appropriate for this site. School replaced walls with glass that…read moremakes students feel unsafe in their learning environment from intruders or potential dangerous people. iPads are nice. The school has now issued a school wide ban for the use of Guest WiFi and needs a personal password to login. Go somewhere else. Don't put your child through this school.

SLP is a great school district. The glass walls are awesome and provide a transparency that all…read moreschools should be jealous of. The ability to move the walls and connect the classrooms for school programs is phenomenal. Parents and Grandparents are welcome to come and join their student for lunch. They even supply a set of booths for them to have their special meal. The pickup process is a bit slow and needs to be revisited, but over all a great place to learn.

I am currently enrolled in the automotive maintenance and light repair and think it's awesome…read more Great instructors great class environment.