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    Rancocas Friends School

    Rancocas Friends School

    5.0(1 review)
    0.9 mi

    My grandson went to this school for two years and was provided with an absolutely amazing first…read morelearning experience. Teacher Nora has a great deal of experience and has such a way with the children. She and Teacher Suzanne provide those children with love and kindness and teach them about caring for others, confidence in self, love of learning, care for nature, and the excitement of childhood. This is what preschool should be.

    From the owner: Rancocas Friends School offers the option of a full day program, (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) or a half-day…read moreprogram, (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.) five days a week for four and five year olds. Enrollment is limited to 22 children.Rancocas Friends School provides a positive learning atmosphere in which each child may succeed through support and nurturing. Academically, socially, physically and spiritually we strive for excellence. It is our vision for each and every child. We accomplish this by guiding the children with love, honesty, equality and patience. Our program is a multi-sensory program through the whole-language approach. The curriculum is exciting and challenging. It involves the development of all readiness skills, Language Arts, Math, Science, Art and Music. We believe that children learn best with hands on projects. Their ideas are a part of the program and through their input we have researched and worked on many fascinating projects.We realize it can be difficult for a Parent to make a dec

    Moorestown Friends School

    Moorestown Friends School

    4.0(4 reviews)
    5.2 mi

    Highly recommend! Our son, age 5, is currently in his 2nd year at MFS and we could not be happier…read more When he first started in PK (last year), we immediately felt welcomed by the wonderful administration/teachers/staff led by (the very approachable and involved) Head of School, Julia de la Torre. The overall school atmosphere is like something out of a fairytale. From pick up to drop off, we are greeted with smiling faces, kind students, friendly parents and an overall feeling of inclusion. Academically, we were impressed with the curriculum at the PK and K levels. In addition to his normal class schedule, our son has two special-subject areas each day; one being Coding (taught by the amazing Rachel Kaplan). All special areas are wonderful, but as I understand it, MFS is the only school in NJ to teach Coding (which is the future) at the PK and K levels. We are planning to start our younger son, age 2, into the PS program next year as he will be old enough to enroll (age 3) by September.

    Over the last five years, I have been often asked to recommend Moorestown Friends School. Although…read moreI am told by regular academic students' parents that they are happy, we were very unahppy with the education our creative/musican son received. He came from a private school in Philadelphia where he graduated top of his class, and won Pennsylvania awards for musicianship and was head chorister at his professional church choir. He is also now an award winning pianist and composer. His creativity was saved at MFS by Ed Robertson and Rich Marcucci - just wonderful artists and musicians. Other than that no one else seemed to care about his level of musicianship. During his junior year we asked for specific help about applying to creative and performing arts schools. During College admissions night, the guidance counselors admitted to us they had no process in place for developing our creative students' porfolios. After checking with Westtown School, Friends Central, Friends Select and Germantown Friends, we realized that MFS was really lacking in their ability to help our creative children. After spending $16,000 a year on our son's high school education we were truly disappointed in MFS's lack of help for our creative child and also their lack of folow up after the college admissions night. They really had no idea how to treat college applications for creative students. They only seemed to are about Ivy League level students and had no interest in their creative students. We would truly like to know whether things have changed. If not, I will continue to recommend Moorestown High School or one of the Philadelphia Friends Schools if parents have a creative child and live in this area. Renee Jones

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    Christ the King School - CTK School (picture from website)

    Christ the King School

    4.5(2 reviews)
    7.3 miMorrell Park

    This school has it's pros and cons. The pro is the small…read moreclass sizes. Less than 50 students per grade, so it is possible to know all of your classmates. This is also a con because it makes "cliques" more apparent. Pros: Parent-teacher relationships are strong. Attached to the church so there is no walking outside during inclement weather. Nuns still teach and run the school, this is less common in some other Catholic schools. Convenient for local children. Has after school program. CORA is available to tutor children who are having trouble, this happens during school hours. Cons: Costly, there are even charges if your child stays for lunch (which last I remember is held in the classrooms since there is no proper cafeteria.) Lack of after school activities, and those that do exist are expensive. Extracurricular classes are poor, in particular gym, which is held in the chilly basement of the church. Small class sizes mean advanced students are held back. To keep them busy they are asked to help less advanced students. Most of the student body lives in the area and graduates to Archbishop Ryan. Religion is held in high regard, and is very prevalent in the classroom. By attending this school, CCD is not mandatory as you study for and receive the sacraments through their church.

    Hey I went to CTK in the mid 1960's to early 70's. The average size class was about 4o students per…read moreroom. There was no gym. For lunch you either ate in the classroom or walked home for lunch. Maybe you went over to Academy Plaza But you know what ! I received a good catholic school education, and I would not change that for anything.

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