Great staff! Very friendly and welcoming school. The Lee's Summit High School Hall of Fame is an…read moreawesome program to recognize graduates.

absolutely terrible school with a terrible district. people get hurt since they can't figure out…read morehow to cancel school in bad weather and deserve to face lawsuits and closure.

great school great people. Big shout out to the dean Mr Tigner for helping me with everything to…read moreget through the years along with the amazing staff. They care and can't help unless you ask for the help you need

This is one of the Best campuses. Professors are great and helpful. The Dean, is great and helps…read moreout the book store staff is nice and helpful. The buildings are chilled and not always very warm in the winter so dress and show school spirit and take hand written notes over computer notes. Also be involved we all need friend.

Great school and the people here are great and the teachers here are simply just the bestread more

My son is thriving here and my daughter can't wait to go next year! Fantastic teachers and 21st…read moreCentury Academies.

Beautiful and quaint campus in the heart of downtown Liberty. I didn't attend college here but my…read morehusband did and he is still quite fond of many of his professors that served in the Biology department. He received an excellent undergraduate education here which prepared him for many more years of education ahead. The amenities on campus are both historic and modernized depending on which area you are in. They are in the process of updating many areas of campus so there are always changes happening!

While William Jewell excels in its goal of providing a liberal arts education that emphasizes…read morecritical thinking, it does not in its student life. When I was a student there for my first semester in college in 2024, they declared a state of financial exigency toward the end of the semester; this was in an email in December of 2024; basically, that means that the institution was facing an imminent and severe financial crisis threatening its long-term survival or ability to fulfill its mission. They cut programs to also cut costs. There were quite a few students that didn't like this. Some, like me, were worried that some humanities programs would be cut. I would argue that their spending was often not made in the right direction. For instance, they prioritized student athletics (a classic moneymaker for colleges) over dorms that were more well-funded like a state school. Of course, there's a reason why the amenities arms race exists within state public universities, but nonetheless William Jewell, within my experience, tended to focus more on appearance spending than preserving an experience that was more comfortable for it own students. My dorm was outdated, with what looked like a heating and cooling system as old as when the dorm was built (specifically Mathes Hall). The sound insulation was also rather poor, but I guess that's a rather normal thing for student housing. That problem was less of one for me when I went to Mizzou shortly after my first semester there. Apparently, the Board of Trustees cited that the cost of operations increasingly exceeded the pace of revenue, despite enrollment growth. The college reported a $12 million loss in the fiscal year ending June 2023 alone. This data is from the Hilltop-Monitor, a student-led Jewell newspaper. Of course, being a private college, William Jewell relies heavily on tuition rather than large endowments. Operational costs simply started to rise faster than tuition revenue, so the school had to cut costs and the experience (even my own) had significantly less quality of life for the high cost of tuition that was paid. The school is also said to have cut off its ties to the Missouri Baptist Convention at some point, which is rumored to have cut a pretty large part of its funding. Specifically, the split occurred in 2003 after the Convention objected to the college's stance on homosexuality and its allowance of a student production of The Vagina Monologues, severing a 154-year relationship and a critical stream of tuition referrals. At the time, President David Sallee and the Board of Trustees refused because they cited the college's 1849 charter which guaranteed a self-perpetuating board independent of denominational control. Sallee famously stated that they would not "cede control of William Jewell to the Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist Convention." In November of 2003, the MBC voted to sever the 154-year old relationship, cutting off approximately $900,000 annually (about 3% of the budget at the time) and, more devastatingly, losing the stream of Baptist students that filled the dorms. The college prioritized inclusive values and proved it would stand for them, but it ironically failed to support the financial structural experience for its students despite its independent intellectual stance. The U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Survey federally requires all colleges with athletic departments to report their annual revenue. According to the latest EADA data (for 2023-2024), William Jewell College reported $8,562,849 in total athletic expenses. In the same period, the department reported $8,576,602 in revenue, meaning the department technically operated at a slight surplus (around $13,000) on paper. Often, athletics scholarships make at least 50% of the budget. This money spent on athletic programs is enough that it could actually help the school fund its educational programs and student life if it cut many of the sports programs. Anyway, sorry for this long-winded review. I just like to do my research. There were some wonderful people I met at Jewell that were some great mentors. The staff is generally very nice, but the school is definitely in need of funding to maintain operations.

Parents if you are looking for a place that embraces Godly principles with solid best practices in…read moreteaching, Northland Christian is the place for you and your children! From the Early Childhood Center that offers flexible schedules from 7-6, elementary classes that feel like home, and a secondary program that helps your student defend and practice what the BIble teaches while offering many dual credit classes, Northland Christian is a place you can be a part of. Schedule a tour and welcome to the family!

John S ...I had a horrible experience with Me McCubbin as well. My daughter WAS in kindergarten…read morethere and had a bully hit her the first day of school. I brought it to the teachers attention- nothing happen bc they didn't see it. I went to have lunch with my daughter the following week- same little girl hit another little boy- which I saw with my OWN EYES. They claimed to not see it. They told us my daughter *as a Christian should turn a cheek. Then they went into talking about my FB post. There was a lot of lying going on so 12 days in- I took my daughter out. You aren't missing anything by not going there. I wouldn't want my worst enemy to attend here. Best decision was leaving this place

I think what I like most about Barstow, having attended small schools nearly my entire educational…read morecareer, is its size. The students there are going to have grades with 30-50 kids, tops. One of the last junior classes I worked with had 40 students. As you are going to find at most elite private schools, there are a ton of students who love to learn and are dedicated to hard work. It doesn't hurt that it's a beautiful campus, conveniently located, with a good deal of tradition. Scott Hill, head counselor here, also happens to be awesome.

Pricey private K-12 school. Haves and have-lesses.*** Very bizarre stratification and a really…read morestrange range of teachers from top-notch excellent to worst of the worst. I attended this school in the 1980s, long before Yelp, but I still have some trauma/scarring from it, and I think that the administration needs to pay attention to things that it absolutely ignored back then. Rumor has it now that it doesn't, still, which is not atypical of education, but if admin can read this and do better, it should. Major emotional scarring can arise from attending school here as it was in the '80s. Best teachers: Mrs. Teal, Mr. Gratwick, the two French teachers and one French/Latin (Mrs. Mensch (sp?), art teachers Bay and Rosser. Worst teachers: Mr. Eldridge, Mrs. Teller, DiMaria/DeMarea (?), and Ms. McFadden, who was more into breeding dogs for a living than teaching 5th grade.* Questionable: Eisen (English), Harper (math), the creepy young science teacher Scott something.** The music teacher was good, but I was still a Jew who had to sing Christmas songs year after year. *Eldridge was a social climber who was more interested in hobnobbing with rich people than he was children's educations and yet somehow was middle school principal. When I was nearsighted and couldn't see the chalkboard he called me an airhead in front of other kids. Never considered that I literally couldn't see the board, and at age 10, I didn't know either! Dog breeder McFadden, same. Not attuned enough to think about eyesight as factor. DeMarea (?) was the crappy English teacher for 7th and 8th who said, "You want to start a new thought? Start a new paragraph." I learned everything I know today about writing from the public high school I attended with better teachers when I left Barstow. **Eisen was brilliant and a great teacher, and I learned a ton from her, but her disciplinarian ways were intense, and she literally taped some kids' mouths shut. They were terrible pompous kids who technically deserved it, but even for the '80s this was draconian. Mr. Harper was a great math teacher, but I was gifted in math, and because I picked up algebra, etc. from self-teaching and never had to "study" (who needs to study algebra? you get it or you don't; you solve for x) he told all the other kids, in front of me, that I was lying when I said I didn't study. WTAF? Not that it would have been okay if he told them behind my back. But REALLY?! Algebra is formulas. You don't need to "study" algebra. Once you click the formulas you're done. 20+ years later when I was taking the GRE, I had to re-teach myself algebra, and I did. It's not a daily-study memorization thing. Telling other kids I'm lying because I "get" math is NOT OKAY. ***Haves lived in Mission Hills in mansions, some with indoor pools. Have-lesses were me: I had everything any kid needs and wants--my own room, things I wanted for my bday gifts, never was hungry. We took vacations and had material things. But we were very much "wrong tracks" because we weren't society and didn't jet off to ski resorts and spas and Europe and live in mansions. Mr. Eldridge really catered to only the "haves" in an obvious way. As diversity and inclusion become fashionable topics of the day--too little, too late--I think it's important to note my experiences here, and I wish I had sooner. I'll forever be grateful to my parents that they gave me a choice about high school, and I was able to attend public school for "free" rather than the $5k annual tuition at the time for Barstow. Was public school perfect? Of course not, but for the thousands of dollars difference it was a no-brainer. And overall, the quality of teachers and administrators was actually better at public school. If parents are considering sending kids here, please observe very carefully and ask a lot of questions. If you're on the KS side, chances are still quite good that public school is better when weighing money, diversity, and quality of instruction/admin. Missouri? Possibly even the same.

This school is great. Currently, it's ranked the highest in the Olathe District. The teachers are…read moreall good at what they do and there are a wide variety of electives to choose from that other schools in the district might not have (for example, Japanese)

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4 years of my life in a plaid skirt and white blouse, awesome.read more