A lot of hype and hard sell about their nature connection and environmental stewardship program…read morewith little substance to backing up.

My son has been with Swallowtail since kindergarten and is now in the 7th grade and I highly…read morerecommend it to other parents. The curriculum prepares children for both future academic and social challenges and the environmental education (there is an additional 26-acre farm campus) promotes great responsibility. Highlights include: -Class sizes average 16 students. -The main teacher generally stays with their class from 1st-8th grade. -Media/corporate/commercial-free environment. -No Common Core or standardized testing. -Lots of outside time for every grade level -Kids that like going to school and thrive! This is a well rounded educational experience that helps develop sharp, motivated and emotionally strong young humans.

this was my school I was a kid but what have they done to the school yard. it looks awful, why are…read morethere so many fences. there are only 2 ways in and out now. bad planning and wasteful spending of tax dollars on unneeded fencing

EPIC FAIL~! This…read moreschool lives up to worse social Economics stereotypes there are. In Hillsboro Or you are already a minority if you are a native English Speaker. Or not employed by a major IT Company. This public school crawls in at 999th place. If it ranks at all. * Over sized class room. * Half English Half Spanish curriculum. * Poor Facility management. * And a under appreciated PTA. This schools begs the Question is this the best America can do. http://www.greatschools.org/oregon/hillsboro/43-W-L-Henry-Elementary-School/

we transfered our son in the middle of the school year from a larger Catholic school, and I must…read moresay, the only regret we have is not joining St. Matthew School earlier! The principal and teachers are warm and welcoming, and our son finally felt he is cared for! hE IS IN 5TH gradeThere are 17 students in the classroom , and he thrives, he retains more information, now that he is able to interact with his teachers and get his questions answered. He adapted from the first day and made friends easily, I strongly recommend this school beyond other private schools!

My kid went here. Unless you donate a bunch of money to the new principle your kid won't be…read morechallenged nor helped. Only a small portion of the donated money goes to helping parents with tuition the other amount goes in the principals pocket. My kid was never challenged and always told me their group would not get help when their hands were raised and the teachers only paid attention to the donator's kid. No hot lunches are served. Highly disappointed in this school. On top of tuition, do note that they expect a donation of X amount of dollars per school year. The educational system of a private school is failing.

I've sent both my kids here and had a great experience! Miss Jenny is a wonderful nurturing teacher…read moreand creates a very fun environment for kids to explore. Loved having the parent/teacher conferences with her and talking about how each kid was doing and what we could work on. Great community of involved parents, too, some of whom have become friends.

Both daughters went to HPP for two years each and loved it!! They are both having so much success…read morein elementary school. It was a wonderful experience for our family.

I love love love the infant building they are absolutely incredible we got the privilege to have…read morems.Katelyn as a teacher and she is truly amazing in every way I could really tell she cared about my child and I felt very comfortable and confident in her teaching and just overall being highly recommend, we are now in the toddler side and it's a bit more strict on drop offs makes it a bit hard as a single mom having to take transportation currently but they really value the time with all the children they do beautiful arts and crafts, going to the park and teaching use of glass cups which was super scary at first but we've had zero accidents and my daughter is doing so amazing!!! We have a new teacher ms.Roxana and she very wonderful and great with my daughter especially now that she throws her little toddler tantrums cause she has to leave her mommy but they handle it with grace and offer to looks at the fishy's in the other room I love everything about this place they have good secured doors only parents can access which makes me feel very safe they also take erdc for anyone looking for that. Really blessed and grateful we have found such a nice school to call a second home. I really value their work and effort :) thank you WMI

Our daughter is almost 3 and has been going here since she was 2.5 and we lovvvve WMI. We toured 9…read moreother preschools including 2 other Montessori programs and this place has everything we were looking for!!! First- the teachers. No matter where you go or what type of "program" a school says they base their teaching strategies on its honestly all about the teachers and WMI has some of the most caring and nurturing of people around. They are so caring welcoming they make your child feel safe while allowing them to be independent and respectful and have some ownership in their learning and school. The students- AMAZING. They are the most well behaved group of kids you will ever meet... And happy!! Because they model after each other and the teachers are good at modeling discussing/explaining reasons for why we respect each other and act the way we act everyone is happy and just respectful of each other. I had a friend tour who was weirded out and Said it wasn't natural to be this well behaved almost cult like... But it just shows you kids can be respectful playful well behaved little people if they are expected to be. The friend actually toured and did an "experiential day" with the school and actually has her daughter starting end of the month!!! The director- joy is amazing and really caring for her student.. They all love her to pieces. I will say honestly she sometimes is a little disorganized with parents (forgets scheduled meetings with parents from time to time) but never lacks with the children. I think she just has tons on her plate teaching/training/running and amazing school that things fall through the crack sometimes. She really wants the family to be really involved in the community which is great. She is also very easily reached/available and in constant communication with parents. The one negative that I can think of is they don't help wipe the kids if they are potty trained. They want them to be independent and do it on their own. My daughter has come home multiple times with skid marks because I just don't think she can reach that far. I have mentioned it before but not seriously talked to the school about it. Honestly though... There is no other school that I would trust with teaching the right morals and learning how to interact in a community to become fully functioning little people than WMI. You will not regret your decision for going....