Rating: 3 out of 5 Posted on: July 15, 2009

Mr. Parent: I have had my child at Page since he was 3. Overall, it is a good school. He has learned quite a bit. The class sizes are small. The parents and kids are pretty nice. However, there are a few bad apples of kids in the bunch, and the school is very tolerant of such to a fault. That bad child can do almost anything before getting expelled either because he represents income or because he is on financial aid and is a experiment child. The school focuses on academics from Kindergarten onward almost to a fault. The kids are inundated with homework and you have to wonder what they do in school if they have so much homework at night. If one parent complains that there isn't enough homework, then the principal reacts and gives them all too much from then on. In these economic times, the school changes its ways to satiate everyone sometimes. The school is only as good as the teacher you happen to get, so if you are lucky, you can get a good one, otherwise, you can get stuck wth those that are just doing the bare minimum. Each grade seems to have one good teacher and one borderline one that is there for the paycheck. Some teachers are so warm with the kids, while others almost treat the kids like a fungus to be sprayed. The sports program is very good there. Overall, my child likes it because he hasn't been elsewhere. I hear that it is worse elsewhere. The principal is very stand-offish with the parents, and rules that school with an iron fist on the one hand, but she looks at her bottom line, so she overlooks a lot of mean kids just to keep the income coming in. The school is actually very good at the lower grades, grade 5 and under, but after that, there are too few kids..it is more like Little House on the Prairie. But after all that, it is still a decent school. I have heard that at Masters Academy, your kids are like robots so that isn't good!