I came for the Halloween Craft Party event, and had fun trying out a few different crafts. Since it…read morewas Halloween, we made scented candles inside little gourds, which turned out to be really cute. After that, we did a bit of ceramic painting, and then finally pottery making! I was very excited to learn to use the pottery wheel, which has been on my list for a while. Jim was a relaxed teacher and made sure that we were all learning and having fun. Overall, a really enjoyable experience. Grace and her team have created a welcoming atmosphere and great space for classes and events.

Our daughter attended this school for four years, and our experience has been nothing short of…read moreamazing. The teachers are incredibly kind and caring, and they consistently instill great values in the children. We truly appreciate the Montessori approach, which beautifully supported our daughter's individual learning and growth. We highly recommend this wonderful school to any family!

The director was nice but disorganized. Our child was in the toddler and preschool rooms. The…read moreteacher that our child had taught curriculum (e.g., subtraction and addition tables) that was too advanced for that age. They should have been focusing more on social and emotional development. The teacher also seemed harsh. We would not recommend.

Moved here from California last year and having to adjust your girls to MN winters in a new school…read moreis rough. Starting a new school in January as a first grader when you have never lived in frozen weather took a lot of courage from my daughters but a majority of the praise goes to the staff at Fernbrook who were absolutely amazing. Mrs Larson was a gift for a new family as a teacher who went out of her way to welcome our daughter and make sure she survived a major shift in culture :) Totally impressed with the administration, bussing from our local neighborhood the involvement from parents and extra curricular activities this school is one of Maple Groves best.

A great place to send your children for early childhood education…read more Serving children from Infants to School Age.

The staff is very caring.My kids have been going to creative Kids for almost 4 years now,its the…read morebest place i could've chose for my kids to go to daycare.

This is a cute studio that has artwork and also other cards, wine glasses and gifts for sale. The…read moreartist, Noelle is there by appointment so she's not there everyday. She does teach art classes though. Mostly on weekends. They focus on uplifting and inspirational art experiences for women. She also does private art parties for groups that want to paint something special or just have a time that works for them, we had our moms group there and we had a great time. Most of us aren't artistic but she helped us all leave with artwork that we were proud of. Highly recommend.

When I told a staff there someone draw something in a appropriate they said "We will take care of…read moreit". After a couple of days I still saw that inappropriate drawing. Definitely don't recommend going to that school. And also the staff there treated me like shit. And I have special needs. And I joined the flag football as a manger. And they restricted me from going to all game instead I was able to go to two games. Then when I showed to a none home game. One of the coaches said "What are you doing here. You aren't supposed to be here". At the point I wanted to say something really mean. But I remain calm and cool. And after that situation happened. Then my case manger came to the game. After that she was all in my business asking me about my father. And I was about to call my dad to handle her. But I remained calm and cool because I have the decency and maturity to forgive. And also I'm a Christian person who forgive people. Excuse my language. And I also went to two of my best friends high volleyball games. I wasn't able to go. They stopped me at the entrance. I am in my senior year right now. All this happened before the class of 2026 graduation ended. And thank the lord that none of friends would witness them treating special needs student like this. Although they have good academic success and sports. They don't have the right attitude to treat people with special needs or none special needs with kindness, compassion, respect, safe, loving, caring, respectful, and have the great attitude towards people with none special needs and or special needs. I will not be sending my siblings to this school to be treated the same as they treated me. My siblings have special needs. Everyone in my family not my parents have special needs and will not be sending my siblings there instead I will be sending them to White Bear Lake Area High School.

I would give Mounds View High School about 4 stars overall. The academic side is solid -- there are…read moredecent classes, a wide range of electives, and many teachers genuinely care and put effort into helping students succeed. You can tell that a lot of staff members are there because they want to make a difference. However, my senior year was overshadowed by a serious incident involving a staff member, which was shocking and difficult for the student body to process. Experiencing that situation firsthand made the school feel less stable and less safe than it should have, and it changed the way many of us viewed the administration and the environment. So while Mounds View has strong academics and great teachers in many areas, that experience really complicated my overall impression of the school.

Our kids attended Curio for several months, largely because our girls enjoyed dance and had friends…read morewho also attended. What we found interesting is that when they moved to their new space this past year, we were finally able to watch each dance session (which wasn't the case at their former studio). Our girls had their occasional "off days" as young children often times do. Yet the overt frustration and impatience on behalf of the staff became more and more apparent with each subsequent week. The tipping point is when one of our girls instructors (who happened to be the owner) literally raised her voice in anger and threatened not just our daughter, but any child that did not meet expectations. Specifically, any child whose shoelaces weren't properly tied (I wish I were exaggerating) were scolded and told laces will be cut off with a scissors if the parents don't do it themselves. Our child never wanted to go back after that day and we immediately withdrew her from the remaining calendar year. What's heartbreaking is, as a parent, you trust particular people with the wellbeing of your child (we did our research, we talked to other parents, etc) and despite a seemingly safe and trusting environment, Curio proved to just the opposite.

The direction and focus is top notch when it comes to dance. They have the best educated…read moreinstructors in the Twin Cities with a caring, nurturing environment. Thank you for helping my daughter and son dance their heart out!

We have been coming to the Blaine FOSS since our eldest daughter was 6 months old. Our daughter…read moreloves water and she developed some good skills at FOSS. She's 6 years old now. Facility is nice and employees are great, what's not so great is, the evaluation system. I understand it's some what subjective to who's doing the evaluation, but the general goal shouldn't be to maximize as much revenue as they possible can, rather considered your child's skills. It feels like the pass/repeat/fail all depends on how many kids they have registered and if they have available room or not, definitely your child's skill set isn't the primary factor. Exhibit A: our daughter tried North Wolf swimming club and passed with flying colors. She just wasn't used to the coach style learning and she was intimidated with coach yielding to other kids, she wasn't ready for that. We decided to continue with FOSS. They kept her in the same class for 3 consecutive seasons and the excuses were, she needs to work on her "breathing" or she needs to work on her hands! This is a girl that swamped the whole Olympic size swimming pool back and forth for her try out! Later we discovered they didn't have enough student registered for the next up session and the existing class is over capacity! Exhibit B: They placed a new student in their group, whom happens to be a girl my friend goes to school with. She never attended swimming lesson but she ended up in the same class as our daughter! Now you have kids with high varying degree in their skill sets and our daughter ends up not getting enough attention the instructor focuses more in monitoring others and helping others. I don't like singling out employee as they get the over arching theme instructions from the corner offices, but Alexander, floor manager, took it to the next level when I tried to approach her with our over all concerns! Her general responses was, "you telling me your concern doesn't change how we grade" paraphrased! So, this is our last session and we are taking our daughters to a different place where they can learn and excel!! PS: they charge us ~$250 per season. roughly we spend ~$750 to learn the same skill sets, the pattern has been repeat x3 per each session/season!

Yes it's expensive. But learning to swim is a must and I think every child should know how to swim…read moreso cost isn't important to me IF they are progressing. We've had a few headaches with the level progression. They wanted to hold my child back based on one thing he needs to work on. Then he's bored in the next session while the other kids look like beginners. I dislike that they level eval so early in the session. It seems like they don't want to pass anyone. So they get your child swimming? Yes. Its a headache sometimes that they aren't working specifically on what your child needs to work on. Frustrating. I wish they'd teach more endurance and how to tread water. They need more showers too. And as of today the pool is filthy. Like so dirty. Yuck! No wonder why my child keeps getting ear infections. Overall we continue to go as we have a pool at our House. He needs to learn to swim and nothing in the area compares.