My daughter is now in her 4th year at St. Thomas - and over those years I have come to know several…read moreof the faculty and parents, including the headmaster, Michael Cusack. They truly have my respect, not only as teachers.. but as thinkers, innovators, and leaders in education. The curriculum is challenging and encourages an understanding of the liberal arts and sciences, balanced by the values of forgiveness, love, and understanding deeply rooted in Christian belief systems. Their Scottish Arts program is unbelievable to see and I am constantly amazed at the artistic abilities of the students who have been encouraged over the years by the school. My daughter, who deals with sensory issues that affect her learning, has always been treated with the utmost respect and has been encouraged to embrace new ideas while being challenged by proven methods of teaching that instill an understanding of the world around her while teaching her to effectively communicate those ideas. I am not an alumni and I was only aware of the school through long time friends. But, having faced the challenges of the current public school system with our oldest child, my wife and I came to believe that a private school was our only acceptable option for our youngest child (and any future children). We explored several private schools in Houston and decided on St. Thomas' based on a tour of the school and talking with faculty and others who knew of or had experienced the school. Also, I believe that the tuition is quite reasonable compared with other private schools in Houston that we considered. We intend to keep our 8 year old at St. Thomas' through 12th grade and we plan to send our 3 year old there as well when she reaches school age. I would also encourage any parents considering a private school education to meet with Mr. Cusack and the faculty and see it for yourself. I believe that you will like what you see.

My daughter attends school here. She is currently in 9th grade and as been attending since 4th…read moregrade. This school offers a great classical education to its students. The teachers are awesome and the administration is very helpful. They also have a Scottish Arts program which is excellent. The band is full of bagpipers and drums. There is also a Scottish dance program which has produced many U.S. champions. If you are around the Meyerland plaza area around 4pm you will hear the bagpipers practicing.

I just wanted to share that my daughter, thanks to the excellent instruction and personalized…read moreattention that she received at SNS, had absolutely no problem acing HISD's G&T testing this year in Kindergarten. She consistently gets top grades in her class, and we thank SNS for preparing her so well, academically and socially, in their pre-K programs. SNS transformed my shy little girl - who had spent the first years of her life at home during the pandemic - into a confident, smart little social butterfly. My son, attending SNS for summer camps, has also benefitted from SNS academically and socially. Being with slightly older classmates over the summers pushed him ahead of the curve, and he was popular among the younger kid crowd, as the older brother to my daughter. P.S. I believe first responders and BCM employees receive a discount on registration, and the school offers a sibling discount on tuition, as well. Cannot recommend this school enough!

This review is a little long because I have a lot to say about this school. TL;DR -- lots of…read moreschools have great academics but not so great social environments. Saint Nicholas has top-ranking academics, sure, but, what my children learned about themselves and their peers, and how deeply their teachers cared about and fostered that, is what really made this school the very place for my 5 preschool through elementary children. To put this review in perspective: when I was a child, my family moved to Houston and surveyed top local private elementary schools to enroll me in. I attended one, then another top local private school. Both were academically quite excellent, completely in keeping with their reputations. Unfortunately they were also very cliquish, and because I was the new kid, it took quite a lot of time and effort to fit in, despite having experienced a very loving, inclusive, and thoroughly enjoyable social life at my previous schools. Looking back now, I can understand that the social environment was simply unhealthy at both these Houston private schools. In fact, though I loved learning, my ability to learn and thrive academically was severely compromised by the social situations at these schools. So here's my review of Saint Nicholas: when it came time for my own children to find a private preschool, kindergarten and elementary school to attend, I wasn't going to assume the social environment at a private school would be healthy, inclusive, loving, or provide a positive social foundation. And, though of course I wanted my children to have the very best educational foundation possible, to provide them with the greatest optionality for later educational and career choices, I also knew that the social and emotional environment at a school is equally important -- possibly even more important, because of the foundational nature of what a young child comes to learn about their own innate value as a human being by how others relate to them. I, and more importantly my children, found Saint Nicholas to be the same kind of positive, inclusive, encouraging environment that I had experienced myself at the private schools where I had thrived as a child. Classmates were friends. Positive and respectful interactions with classmates were expected, encouraged, and fostered. It's all about the teachers! The teachers at Saint Nicholas are actually aware of how the students interact, they actually care about this just as much as excellent teaching and excellent curriculum, and, they are very gifted at not only helping the students learn greater social skills, but inspiring them to want to. And these teachers have been at Saint Nicholas school for a long time. Saint Nicholas will probably show you their top-ranking academic test scores and student accomplishments, or maybe you'll hear anecdotal stories from other parents about how their child went from being behind academically, to being ahead academically in just one year. But that's not what mattered to me, and I don't think it happens just because of academic excellence. I certainly don't think high national test scores tell the whole or even the most important part of the story. I think what matters most about a school is what the child learns about themselves, and the value of every human being. At Saint Nicholas, my children learned that they were smart, capable, and valuable. They learned that they could thrive in both inter-dependent and independent endeavors. They learned that they were worthy of both respect for who they were, and being called into the greater self they were growing into. Again - it's all about the teachers. The school administration is capable enough, but I don't believe a school can administrate this. Saint Nicholas has somehow gathered and kept some truly phenomenal and caring teachers.

The best elementary school. I went to Mark Twain elementary school when I was a kid. The teachers…read moreand students are great and diverse.

This is the worst experience I have had dealing with schools ever the teachers the principals they…read moreare horrible they look down on people if they feel like they aren't up to the status of where they think they should be they talk about the parents in front of the kids they put their hands on the kids their rules to the kids they bully the kids prince will actually have me outside for 45 minutes in the heat knocking and Batman on the door and yelling for my kids because I didn't know where they were she had them inside of the building with her God knows what she was doing I called everybody I could possibly call no one's called me back about the situation my kids don't want to go to school because they are upset and scared and have anxiety from the principal and the teachers bullying them elementary School I'm so fed up I'm trying to call and won't answer the phone the number on here is wrong don't enroll your kids here this school is horrible and they should be shut down

We love this school. Great vanguard program, great dual language and a good staff selection. One of…read morethe top 10 in HISD in my opinion.

My daughter attends this school and the crazy thing about it is they don't have a principal and…read morehave not had one for sometime now. They do not have a nurse, whenever the kids are not feeling good. They just ask the parents to come pick them up immediately. They do not have any kind of law-enforcement at this school. I've been hearing about multiple incidents where they have had to call the police and wait until they arrive to handle a situation that could have been resolved if they only had someone already there on campus. I do not feel like my child is safe there. They are very last minute with informing the parents about anything, most of the time they don't communicate at all.

This school is absolutely TERRIBLE. The children do not learn, and teachers are not certified! This…read moreschool needs a lot of fixing inside and out, missing sinks and restrooms, holes in the roof, and dirty! My child tells me that they are fights EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Also the average school grade is dropping at a rapid pace. THE FOOD IS HORRIFYING. My daughter tells me the milk is literally ice! and my son got strep throat from the hot dogs. But there is a amazing teacher miss rasmus who helped my daughter and son with their writing so much!! overall do not let your child attend this school.

Yeah so update. I tried to apply for Bellaire Highschool through their magnet program and found out…read morethat i can't get in because of my record. 4 Referrals and many RP points because one teacher decided she didn't like me at the beginning of the year. Now, i know what you're thinking. "Oh he must be lying he has to be a trouble maker in that one class" I absolutely am not. i try my best to be a good student in her class. i got my dad emailed for asking about a question on a test which we didn't learn about. Dr Fouzia (Biology teacher) lied to my dad and told him i was disrupting class. The RP point system is rigged. It is taken to the most advantage by teacher that pick and choose what students they like and don't like. Please i suggest you do not apply or attend this school at all. 90% of the teachers here are unfair and don't teach well. i was a straight A and B student for a while before attending here and it completely ruined me. i get Bs and Ds now with BARELY any A's. Why you may ask? No it's not a problem on my end, it's the problem with the education and the way the teachers teach. the teachers here are foreign from turkey mostly. Their english is pretty bad making them very hard to understand. it's a struggle everyday trying to understand my teachers. I've reported a teacher for harassment and nothing was done. i've reported my engineering teacher Mr Mansur for saying the N WORD HARD R MANY TIMES IN CLASS and nothing was done about it. Please do not attend this school, it will ruin your child and or you as the student.

Honestly it's not good every time someone is coming to vist they put on this perfor as if they're a…read moregood school. I think all schools are mentally draining but this school has it. Always yelling at students and also having favoritism towards certain students as well. To strict on everything literally everything it's like a prison in there please do not send your child here if you want them to come home so tired of everything.