This is an impressive elementary school. They are a Leader In Me school and have received many…read moreawards and recognition in this regard. When you walk into the school, the principal and office staff are standing in the lobby greeting parents and children as they enter. All the teachers are standing at their door with a student leader to great each child with a verbal welcome and a handshake before entering the room. They start the kids day by treating them as little adults, empowering them to behave as such. The school goals and standards are posted everywhere, along with how they are doing in regard to those goals and standards. They set high standards of their teaches and the kids as well. They focus on the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People written, coached and practiced in ways that the kids understand. This is the back bone of their approach to education and it works. The principal is loved by the kids and he loves them. I think his leadership of the school is what has made them so successful.

The School is great. Our daughter has really enjoyed being at ALA. The dual immersion program has…read morebeen fantastic.

I emailed the school with concerns about the racial stories that my siblings encountered and…read moremultiple post circulating the social media sites for them to address the issue and the school has ignored my request and left me on read. them not responding shows lack of professionalism and lack of respect for their students of different racial background who are being targeted with this post.addressing this issue would give future students a sense of security while attending your academy.

Our son went to Art City Elementary when we moved to the area, and we were put on the waiting list…read morefor the local charter school. We liked the school, but assumed the charter school would be better. We accepted when our name came up on the waiting list. My son was assigned quite a bit of home work at the charter school for a first grader. And they were completely inattentive to his IEP where he needed help with his stutter, never getting into group therapy. He wasn't happy there, so we returned to Art City Elementary for second grade with Ms. Roylance. We mentioned his need for assistance with his stutter, and within two weeks, he was attended to and has one-on-one time with a speech therapist. The ladies in the front office know my kid by name and my voice on the phone--and I'm not heavily involved, I'll admit. I'm not on PTA. I just had a baby, I'm not in the school all the time. I'm so impressed with this school. My son is very happy and safe there.

My child has been attending this school for three years and I can't say enough good things about…read moreit. The students stay with the same teacher from kindergarten until 6th grade which greatly decreases first day fears. The teachers also get to know your child and their specific needs. The education philosophy is also a huge plus for me as they focus on emotional, cognitive and social development using a hands-on approach. Overall, I think this school is amazing, I couldn't imagine sending my child anywhere else.

If you have children with special needs that require IEPs, just do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY…read morefrom this school. Their special Ed department sucks! Students progress aren't being monitored properly. When my child attended Treeside (2018-2019) I didn't receive progress reports for quite a while. I ended up bringing an advocate with me to a meeting with the whole team do to that reason. Let me just say how defensive everyone in that meeting got just because I was advocating for my child. From stuff like: "If I had a magic pill I can take to get it all done" or the principal saying "we do what we can". Those are no excuses as to why I wasn't being informed of my child's progress. It was very uncomfortable for me as a parent having to hear such thing from them. Now their cafeteria is a hot mess . I was always there every morning with my kids & I can tell you that there isn't always staff watching the kids other than the cafeteria ladies. There are kids running , throwing balls etc. I was even shoved by a few kids while in there. The Cafeteria ladies are very sweet , but I think the school makes their job harder by them having to be the ones to remind the kids that it's time to go to class, line up or simply having to discipline kids themselves. Their carpool lane is a NIGHTMARE , man that still needs a lot work. It scares me that one day a child will get hit by a car. Save yourself the trouble!

This is a pretty good school if I do say so myself. Best…read moreschool. 10/10 would learn again. I would TOTALLY recommend this school to my fellow classmates.

Great video Reckless Ben. Way to expose the school! I rly liked the part where the kid got solitary…read moreconfinement for stealing a bag of chips

Based on public records and detailed reviews from 2024 through 2026, recurring complaints describe…read moreresidents being left unsafe around peer violence and inappropriate touching; punitive "stabilization," isolation, restricted communication, and restraints; medication problems or delayed medical care; unsanitary conditions and poor food; limited meaningful therapy, education, recreation, or discharge planning; invasive searches and inadequate privacy; and staff mockery, retaliation, or inaccurate incident reporting. Reviewers also repeatedly say advertised amenities such as the pool, ropes courses, and climbing walls were unavailable. A minority of reviewers praised individual clinicians or said the program helped them, but that does not erase the consistency of the adverse accounts or their overlap with independent regulatory findings. One of the most disturbing items is an official Provo Canyon School article published June 30, 2026. It presented a 7-to-14-day communication "blackout" as beneficial, explaining that direct parent-child contact would be paused so teens would be forced to rely on staff and peers rather than call home to vent or "ask to be rescued." The article also warned parents that children might beg to leave and characterized reduced defiance and acceptance of the environment as progress. Because it referred to "many facilities," the article alone does not prove PCS imposed this policy on every resident. It does show the school endorsing a structure that removes a newly admitted child's independent family-reporting channel and primes parents to discount a genuine plea for help. Utah Code 26B-2-123 requires weekly confidential family communication, while the current licensing rule requires individualized documentation and written approval for modifications and says a blanket practice cannot satisfy that requirement. A true 14-day blackout, or any restriction that eliminated weekly confidential contact, would conflict unless an approved exception applied. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry warns against withholding family contact, and a 2024 Senate investigation of Universal Health Services and other operators found that residential treatment facilities often cut children off by limiting family communication and documented both staff-on-youth and youth-on-youth sexual abuse. This does not prove the PCS article caused any specific abuse, but it explains why this kind of isolation can make physical or sexual abuse harder to report and detect. These concerns are reinforced by Utah's 2026 findings. After a resident was assaulted, knocked unconscious, and left with life-threatening head injuries, regulators found that PCS had failed to act on documented threats and transfer requests, failed to protect the child, and delayed emergency care by arranging non-medical transportation instead of calling 911. Utah later revoked both campus licenses, citing chronic noncompliance that included failures to protect children from violence, unsafe restraint and behavior-management practices, abuse and mistreatment, inducing pain for compliance, punishment intended to frighten or humiliate, deprivation of water, rest, or toileting, retaliation for reporting rights violations, and failures involving staffing, background checks, medical care, sanitation, and incident reporting. These were regulatory findings, not merely social-media allegations, and they are difficult to reconcile with the school's marketing of close supervision, medication management, intensive therapy, education, and recreation. The operator disputes the revocations and has appealed, but I would not consider placement here unless the documented failures are resolved through transparent, independent, and sustained compliance.

We have loved discovery tree academy. The teachers are so chill and update you on everything. I…read morelove their app which notifies me when my son gets dropped off and picked up from school.

have been coming for over a year and my son loves it! he already knows all his ABCs and counting to…read more10 and he learns so much and he's only 2!