Public school was failing our daughter no room for advancement and she would get In trouble for…read moredoodling while waiting for her classmates to finish. That's one example. When 2020 hit and everything closed down I took advantage of being able to do homeschooling on top of doing her regular schoolwork. It was difficult but throughout the summer I realized she was going to be going into sixth grade during the pandemic. Nobody knew what was actually happening and I felt they would not be able to really focus on real education with all these new protocols in place. We felt it would be more traumatic than beneficial so we pulled her out out of public school for sixth grade. We continue to do some homeschooling and found Voyagers. In the meantime it was such a perfect fit. She has been thriving ever since she is now in 10th grade and is doing amazing.Voyagers is pretty epic and Their approach to education is a breath of fresh air. This is a true community and I love the mixed age classes . Now that the school is located on the Brookdale community college campus it gives the older kids (and the younger too ) lots of opportunities that they wouldn't get in traditional school!! They can sit in on lectures and next year our daughter will be able to take some college classes to get them out of the way by doing dual enrollment. We are so excited about this opportunity. Please check it out. You will not be disappointed.

Parents, beware: I urge you to read this cautionary tale so…read moreyou can be better informed about the people that operate the school. My wife was planning to go back to work and we were looking at daycares for our two children. At the in-person visit, everything seemed great. They told my wife to submit an application and specifically mentioned verbally that the only non-refundable part was the application fee. We applied our children at the end of July when she started getting tentative job offers, planning a September start once my wife's professional license cleared and she began full-time work, but we did not set a start date for school. They charged us 2 months of daycare costs for each child along with the app fees ($5,000+). Two days after submitting the second application, my wife gets another job offer at a non-profit supporting people with cerebral palsy. The job is lower pay and only part time, but offered discounted on-site daycare so we could afford the lower pay. This was good for my wife because she's been dealing with her own health issues. Needless to say, with this job, we could no longer afford Voyagers for 2 kids, as it would cost more than her paycheck, so the next day we asked to withdraw. Voyagers administration's initial response was encouraging, they'd review our case to see if we could be refunded the $5,000, or even a partial amount. However, we were soon told that there will be no review and we will not be getting any refund because the form we signed said "In the event of withdrawal within the first 30 days, the Parent will forfeit the first and last months of tuition. No refunds shall be provided." Going back to the form we signed, I did confirm this to be true. However, the issue is that the form did not specify what the first 30 days were of--application date, enrollment date, or something else. It was purposefully left ambiguous so it could be used in any way they best suited their situation. As is, we gave the school 30+ days notice of withdraw, only 3 days after signing up. We could have waited until September, after the 30-day window and when they had less time to find new students, but something tells me that we still would not have gotten a refund. I write this as a warning to parents that the school will likely look for any excuse to take your money. We are now out $5,000, which is not a trivial amount of money for us, as it is nearly as much as I make in a month to cover housing, food, utilities, and everything else aside from school. And I imagine the unbending and we-will-interpret-any-rules-to-best-serve-our-needs approach from the top (board and directors) can only trickle down the rest of the school's operations.

Excellent. Great school the staff tries hard to educate the students and the football team is great!read more

Best High School Ever! My son loves his school his football team and coaches! So happy our family…read morechose this school. Anyone who attended the school, young and old, are full of pride. We are as well, very proud our son is a student there. Beautiful college feel so they will be ready when it's time. There are many Scholarships available academic and sports and their goal is for your child to go to college. All athletes are students first! Love this school! Go Caseys!!

Normandy Park in Middletown township is awesome. It is a public park and has all sorts of…read moreamenities. It has a new turfed football field, brand new basketball courts with nice adjustable NBA style rims, turfed soccer fields and a roller hockey rink. You would never thing that a smaller size park would have all these amenities. They also have a nice green space where you can soak some sun or picnic in the summer. Perfect for all.

Don't listen to the review about Ranney being unsafe. In fact it's safe to the point of…read moreasphyxiation at times, even for the oldest students. I graduated from the Ranney school within the last ten years. I want to start by saying that the Ranney school falls somewhere between 3 and 3.5 stars. The reason why I gave it 4 stars is because of the select few educators and employees who I encountered while a student there who had a profound impact on me. The good - Ranney is a fantastic academic institution. It prepares you extremely well for college. I attended a top university and I probably would not have tried as hard in high school if Ranney had not been such a structured environment. Therefore, I can only assume that if I went to public school I would have had more distractions and probably gotten into a lot more trouble (although I was always in trouble at Ranney. Zero tolerance policy for teenage bullshit) - As I said before, a few of the teachers and administrators there are extremely talented. I won't name names but a lot of them left and a lot of them stayed. - The campus is beautiful and sprawling over sixty acres. It's colorful and you could walk around it and get lost in it. The bad - Ranney gives you a false sense of superiority and after college you are in shock when you find out that the real world doesn't give a rats ass about you. - Due to it's high tuition (I think it was 25k when I was a senior and now it's up to 32k) the people who attend Ranney are spoiled because their parents have money. - Because it's such a small school there will be favorites and students that seem to be getting preferential treatment. I may have witnessed cases of this but one can argue that this is just the nature of education. I don't have a conclusive opinion on this matter. Overall, if you are thinking about going to Ranney or sending your child there, please consider the following last words: Parents, get involved in your child's education and the school itself. If you plan on keeping your child in Ranney for the long run you should be on a first name basis with the teachers, administrators, and staff. If you don't, I promise you it will hurt your child's chances of being anymore than a statistic at the school. Also, remember to budget 5k over the tuition. Everything is extra. Kids, if you are anything like me and you have the brains to succeed but you don't have the maturity when you are in high school, give Ranney a try. If you don't like it after a year, leave. Also, if you decide to go be very careful about what you share with the school. It's not like public school. What you do or say will spread around the bubble like wildfire. If you wish to know more feel free to message me.

They are completely unequipped to handle all children effectively. They rely on punitive measures,…read moreoften sending children home as young as 3 1/2 years old. The environment is horrible, making it not worth the money, especially since few of their graduates attend better schools than local public high schools.

Hi my daughter goes to this school since they were in kindergarten. It is a great environment for…read morethe kids and the teachers are very polite and welcoming. My daughters are now in 6th and 7th grades . The teachers are amazing and wonderful! Great Town with awesome School.

Out of thousands of students of my school, I was fortunate to go on a trip with 20 others for…read moreBrookdale Community College's Male Minority Conference / Initiative. We were served two meals, breakfast and lunch, along with a motivational speech to start us off and the communcations / media breakout room I went to afterward that just gave helpful life times, pretty general for any medium you want to be a part of. Starting off with the breakfast I enjoyed my everything bagel, chocolate donut, and orange juice. Let me just not go with that combo of the last two again. Next, for brunch I had sausage, eggs, a muffin, bacon, and potatoes. A lot of the food itself doesn't really look appetizing, but then again, it still did taste pretty good (maybe I was just really hungry) and it was all free! And so was everything included that day. Hope to be back in the room where it happens next year. As this is a review of the college, the campus is certainly pretty nice for a community college. It definitely earns its title for best in the state. And staff hold lots of wisdom and are certainly qualified for their roles. In the communications field, the cheap access to all the equipment Brookdale has is a good reason to be in school.

The IT department (Help Desk) has peculiarly infrequent hours which means it is easy to get STUCK…read more And that can happen through no fault of one's own! The classes are all "B" able with minimal effort [some very specific program courses like very specific nursing classes etc. aside] and B+/A- able and A able with a bit of effort. You don't have to be a genius to get a 4.0 at Brookdale Community College - you just have to put in a bit of time to do the reading and memorize the stuff the professors told you to memorize. It's pretty basic. But the offerings are very limited. Some sections fill up fast and have wait lists, while the sister face to face classes stack up unfilled. The classes felt like a whole lot of busy work - not a whole lot of learning work - just busy work. The teachers basically want to see that you tried and didn't plagiarize! But that doesn't make you a true expert in the field that you checked the box for when you picked ASSOCIATES in XXXXXXXX

So bad we made an account on yelp just to tell yalls how bad this school is. We genuinely do not…read moreknow where to start. Im just going to list everything bad about it 1. No elevators, if you can not get up the stairs, you go to their library and do your upstairs classes virtually. You also are marked absent for all of those classes that you are virtual. Also you can not even where airpods when doing that, someone will give you some horrible earbuds that don't even work with their horrible chromebook. And that brings me to reason number 2 why they are horrible, their tech. 2. The school literally has spyware on your chromebook so teachers can just stalk what you do all the time. Just a tad bit creepy and unnecessary 3. Paying for Saturday detention. Yep, if you get Saturday detention, you also need to pay 15$ to get in. People get these for small things like not having your shirt tucked in or having your phone out for a second. And if you are spotted with your phone, you lose it for 1 whole day and you need to pay to get the phone back+pay to get into Saturday detention. This school says that we should behave like "catholic adults" yet we are treated like total babies. And anything we do that is slightly wrong boom Saturday detention. Even having facial hair.This school is so strict about everything, except one thing that they really should be strict on 4. Literally the most racist and homophobic school possible. And no one on the staff cares. I am not even joking when I say that a teacher got more mad when someone forgot a belt then when someone shouted a slur. I know it sounds like a lie but I promise it is not. This school is a complete joke 5. Deans are a complete joke. Just randomly walking in the hallway to find anyone to yell at. They don't care if that would make someone late to class. They just wanna have some fun. This review was a collaborative effort, written by 2 graduates of sjv, one current senior and one current junior.

This high school is the best. The education and teachers are great. So caring and the teachers and…read moreadministrations go out of their way to help students. There is so much opportunity to join something your child is interested in. Whether is be athletics or clubs. My shy child made so many new friends and got involved in clubs.

My 9 year old went through 1st Grade at A Child's Place School, and my 5 year old is currently in…read moreits full day Kindergarten program. We could not be happier. This school has helped turn both my boys into confident, curious and happy children, who are excited to go to school each day. Thanks to ACP, each has developed a love for learning - exactly what parents should look for in early childhood education. ACP encourages a sense of community unlike other schools that I researched, so my entire family is a part of the learning process. Hands down, this school is worth the drive to Lincroft!

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