There is a new spirit of hope and energy sweeping over St. John's. The interim pastors bring a…read morefresh message. If you appreciate fine organ music played on an historical instrument, you will not be disappointed.

Move here a few years ago. Worried about the schools. If you are looking at the area, I would…read morerecommend this school to anyone. My kids are excited to go to school everyday. There is a lot of one on one attention. The teachers are great. I went to Pa schools and, there is no comparison. My kids have been on more field trips in pre-k and first grade than I went to my entire school career.

I am very disappointed in the quality of Iroquois high school. When my child was in the elementary…read moreschool it was a decent school. When they started jr high that's when I noticed the discrimination between the fancy shining stars and kids are a little rough around the edges. In fact, this school has caused so much sorrow in our family. Their sports programs are unsatisfactory also. They discriminate against the slow learners and only want the perfect kids. Ever since Covid the schools are relying on computer based education. These programs teach, assign homework, grade and report missing work without any teachers. DO BETTER!

Erie Day School offers is an amazing community offering an incredible education for my son. In a…read moretime of funding cuts for other schools they are offering an excelling liberal arts program while still offering rigorous curriculum. My son gets gym daily, lab based science, studio based art, and a foreign language and he is only in elementary school! They offer Toddler through 8th grade. We love the wonderful loving close nit community on a beautiful campus. The class room sizes are small and the teachers care about every student. I love Erie Day School.

Well, it's been a long time since I was a student here, back in the late 70's and early 80's. I was…read morea student here from third through fifth grades. I can say I received a pretty rigorous education here. Back then, thing were more laid back education-wise, as there was no Common Core, but the teachers made sure we knew out arithmetic, could read and spell, and had neat hand-writing, including cursive. Everyone was grouped in the same class, regardless of academic level, except for reading, where we were divided into three levels. There were two classrooms in each grade with about 25 students per class. For third grade I had Miss Claire Dunham, for fourth grade, I had Mrs. Grace Hassett, and for fifth grade I had Mrs. Delores Westling. Our principle was Robert Block. At the end of our third grade year,, I volunteered to cleanup the science kit for Miss Dunham. She was grateful and actually sent me a thank you note to my home address that summer. I felt special. For fifth grade, Mrs. Westling had a reputation as a strict and academically focused teacher, as opposed the other fifth grade teacher, Mr. Bruce Ford, who was know to be fun and easy going since he was younger. Regardless, I liked Mrs. Westling, who was really a nice teacher and wanted to ensure you succeeded academically. She was also fun once you got to know her. As for Mr. Ford, there was a rumor among the students at that time that he was dating Miss Lynn Lamattina, a young fourth grade teacher year. I took at as a mere rumor at the time and brushed it off. Well, when I look the teachers up a few years ago online, I see that they were married, lol. I guess we students knew things back then despite our age. Mr. Ford was a good guy who taught us well too, including a bottle cap game he used to play as a child in New York City called "skully" or "scully". I also designed the route for him for his ice cream truck, which he did in the summer and after school for extra income since I new all the city streets as I loved studying maps. I even volunteered once or twice in the truck as he rode around town. In fifth grade in 1980, I got to write a letter for our city's centennial anniversary time capsule, which was to be sealed in the cornerstone of city hall and to be opened in 50 years, and then again in 100 years. Artifacts from the time were placed in the time capsule. It will be exciting to see the contents again if I can be there in 2030. There was also a student-run project for lunch period called "Penford" (named after Mr. Ford and another teacher who was no longer there), where fifth graders sold ice cream to the other students in the lunch room/gym. We had fudgesicles, strawberry shortcake ice cream bars, drumsticks, and vanilla ice cream cups, ranging from $0.15 to $0.25 each. One time Mr. Ford called us in and reprimanded us because someone (not me) left ice cream in the freezer cart after we packed it up after lunch. He also reprimanded us when he drove us after school to a bank to open an account for the ice cream project, since none of us said thank you after meeting with the banker. But he wanted to ensure we were responsible, and was a good teacher. We had a ceremony at the end of our fifth grade year to celebrate us graduating from elementary school. We each received a dictionary with our name printed in it. All the parents were there. We spent much of the day playing games at various stations in the school. Looking at the school from Google Maps Street View, much has changed since my time there, with new handicapped accessibility for the building, a pull in area for parents to drop their kids off and a parking lot in the back (it used to be just a large play area for the students). I remember fondly my time at this school.