Our family has attended WCA for six years. We love that the school teaches from a biblical worldview in all subjects. We were searching for a Christian school for our children and having a classical Christian education in Cleveland is a huge blessing. read more

My boys attended this school for five years. I feel the administration did not honor my role as a mother raising two boys to follow Christ. In my impression, instead of helping to support us as a family, in 2019, they pushed us out the door in an exceptionally unkind way. Schools must uplift the family to meet the needs of the children. I will continue to pray for the leadership at Westside Christian Community. read more

WCA caters to traditional, nuclear, conservative Christian families. They provide a very rigorous classical education with Christian worldviews. My 10th grader was struggling in public school during the pandemic (2020) and I wanted to find him a school with small classes where he'd thrive and feel loved and supported, especially with his history of anxiety and depression. I took a line of credit from my home to pay for this school and we didn't even last 6 months there. They connected us with some Christian families in our neighborhood to help with transportation which I thought was wonderful until my son came home and said he never wanted to ride with them again. Apparently they thought it was appropriate to drive around the neighborhood with these boys and yell (and flip the bird) to houses with Biden political signs out front. This was how the school year started for us. Within 6 weeks, my son really struggled with learning their style of curriculum which brought his anxiety back. Instead of supporting my son, one of the administrative staff drew a picture for my son (which I found in his backpack and still have) of a tree and its roots with "anxiety" and "depression" written on the branches and "sin" with an arrow pointing to the word "repentance" written on the roots. I asked my son what it meant and he said that this person explained to him that anxiety/depression/mental health issues are not real and just a result of an unrepentant sinner. I WAS LIVID. Who tells a child that? I made an appt to discuss some of my concerns with the head of the school and this man proceeded to list the struggles of other parents he knew and compared them to our own struggles - as if my concern for my sons mental health was petty. I walked out of that office with my son, we cried on the way home, and we never went back. Almost four years later and my son is now a staunch atheist from this experience, despite being raised in a Christian home. It took me years to write this review because I didn't even want to think about that place. read more

This school is growing and actively seeking new students, however their policies have not caught up with the diversity of Christian families living in today's world. Additionally, lack of programming to accommodate working parents exhibits a clear inadequacy against larger, longer-established, academy rigorous private schools. Single families and/or working parents are at a disadvantage because the school lacks the structural support they need: - The school does not offer a before-school program (cannot drop off children before 8AM) - After care program ends relatively early (must pick off children by 5:30PM) - After care program has no tutor to thoroughly check homework/study with child - The school will not accommodate special needs - The school frequently has meetings, programs, etc. during school hours, which working parents cannot attend - The school has no regular hot lunch program - Importantly, the school will not enforce a court-ordered parenting agreement, regardless of circumstances. Single families/two-working-parent households are likely not a good fit for WCA because the school simply lacks support to accommodate them. read more

My neighbor's kids went here, and my future kids will, they have the sweetest, most polite students. The kids learn latin (where was that when I was in school?) and a lot more history than I know even as an adult. read more