This school was horrible the bathrooms were disgusting the teachers are mean and I heard that they…read morefavor the other kids. They also made it a bad place the food there is like bad they overprice it and it is disgusting and they don't know how to help the kids with disorders. They also do not help kids if they problems lifting their bag up or down the stairs they make the kids struggle!

Horrible school they had teachers who favorite the "rich" students they would make the non favorite…read morestudents do more the work. They even made some kids really sick and they don't know how to help kids with disabilities!

Shir Ami is a wonderful place to send your children for pre-school. The teachers and staff are…read moretruly excellent and the programs are really great! Kids absolutely thrive here. On top of their exceptional educational programs, they offer extracurricular activities like karate and yoga, religious enrichment and more, all of which makes the child's experience rich and rewarding. Three of my kids had the fortune to go here and they all loved it and were more than well prepared for the big leagues a.k.a. elementary school. To any prospective parent, you can rest assured that your children are in caring and competent hands. Five stars isn't enough. This place is perfection.

I honestly cannot believe what our experience has been like with Newtown Friends School. It was…read morerecommended to us by an acquaintance whose children attend there and love it. Small classes, progressive values such as inclusivity and diversity, values that so much seemed to reflect our own. It just so happens that our fourth grader was the victim of a crime over the summer before attending this new school. His behavior was affected by this event and, initially, NFS staff, using their language of partnership and collaboration, provided support that had an immediate positive impact. As they expressed a willingness to collaborate with us so did they decide NOT to actually collaborate. The simple recommendation was to keep the support in place and unchanged for a number of months. For whatever their reason, they chose not to do so. This immediately set our child up for failure as they made changes to the support that was working perfectly. Despite our efforts to collaborate, they simply changed it with no regard to what would work for our son. As a result, he was basically set up for failure. Our bright and motivated 9-year-old boy was never in so much trouble as he was at NFS. He was clearly under their critical microscope and their lack of understanding, empathy and unwillingness to work with him was both shocking and obvious. We decided that this school was definitely not a match for him or for our family. The values that they tout are good on paper but our experience is that none of them were genuine and there was no caring about our child, family or experience. "Teaching the whole child", and all of their "partnership", was chewed up and spit out along with us. But they made a point of keeping our.overpayment. Please know that NFS collects tuition fully in advance of the school year being complete. So if you invest in this place for your child's education and well-being, be prepared to lose your money if your child is deemed not good enough by those on high in administration. A sad reflection of Quaker values equating to a complete and total lack of empathy, enormous hypocrisy and obvious greed.

There seem to be two entries for Newtown Friends School, the only difference being the full…read moreaddress. Be sure to check both locations until Yelp combines these two.

I love all my new teachers this year at my new school in Newtown pa I'm officially in middle school…read morethis school is bigger and better than Newtown elementary and St. Andrew's school next door to Newtown elementary

My kids missed this beautiful new middle school in the Council Rock School District, but I am…read morepleased to have had the opportunity to participate in an endorsement meeting before the upcoming May Pennsylvania primaries. The auditorium is large, with good acoustics and comfortable folding seats. The outer hallway is broad and accommodates the many folding tables needed to sign people in and put signatures on the many candidate petitions required for all the offices on the ballot. It was a successful if somewhat disorganized Bucks County wide event. Always feels good to participate in our still vibrant democracy. It may not be working well in Harrisburg and Washington, but we still know what it takes to make our local exercise in community civics work. VOTE!!!

This review is being written with the specific perspective from the parent of a child with a life…read morelong IEP. IF your child has special needs and/or an IEP - this is NOT the district for you. I know they have glowing reviews in various publications... but those accounts are not inclusive of special needs children or children with IEP's. This district has done everything they can to impede what outside professionals have recommended for my child, for years! They did not do what was needed or obvious until forced based on the testimony of two professionals and even then their primary reason for going 'that' route was to avoid liability, and that was just incident. There were many more circumstances where my child was not provided what was needed/requested, by professionals, and the child bore the brunt of the districts decision. CRSD put me in a position where the only option was due process and/or litigation. Unfortunately, upon advice from others who has gone that route with them, I avoided this process. There have been many other parents (not just one family) whom offered this advice said because CRSD's pockets are so deep, they can out wait you and hope you give up. Their number one concern is their wallet, their liability and their statistics. If your child needs interfere with any of these concerns... your child will be on the short end of the stick. I have no other experience with other districts, but I can tell you if you are deciding to move here for your child because they are "the best" and your child has and IEP... move elsewhere!