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.

In addition to being the public elementary school for this part of Newtown, and the polling place…read morefor surrounding neighborhoods, the gymnasium is where the Council Rock Basketball Association 7th Grade teams practice during the week. Goodnoe is currently being expanded and renovated. The removal of the "temporary" classroom trailers is long overdue. When completed, Goodnoe will again be a state of the art educational facility.

Ranked in the top 165 school districts in the United States out of 10,500, CRSD covers five…read moremunicipalities - Newtown Township, Newtown Borough, Upper Makefield and Wrightstown in lower Central Bucks County, PA. It spends over $12,000 a year per student, making it one of the highest paid teacher corps in the country. Property taxes go primary to the school district to educate their 12,000 students. In the Commonwealth the school districts have taxing authority and are not dependent on the local government for their funding. The idea was to keep our kid's education away from the politicians and in the hands of professionals. In truth, it just makes the school board more political. Still, if quality education is what you seek for your children, it is what you receive here. More than 90% of the two high schools send graduates on to colleges and universities. As a result, these towns are very popular with young families willing and able to pay the local school taxes, which remain lower than surrounding states despite the almost annual increases and the related rising home prices. CRSD is the primary draw for people moving to the area. It has made these communities very desirable places to live. My family arrived long enough ago to afford a nice home here. These days it might well be unaffordable.

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!!!

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.

Great school, but they don't give enough lunch time for those who buy. If any kid doesn't finish…read moretheir food, at least give them 5 minutes in class because no kid should be left hungry in a school day.