Great students, small campus, no parking, very bad lazy professors. I was told by admissions that…read moreyou cannot complain on a professor, so they do not watch the professors and they keep all of the terrible ones. A lot of young immature kids also come to this campus graduating Dundalk high or Patapsco high school. Also, parking is terrible around the morning and day classes be prepared to walk miles on end. The food here is pretty good just expensive.

A pretty mediocre school district. I went to school here when I first moved here in high school.read more

Mixed feelings about this place. My kid's grades have definitely improved since starting here. The…read moreteachers do seem to care and respond pretty quickly to emails which is nice. But honestly the building really shows its age and could use some serious updates. Also the homework load is surprisingly light, not sure if that's good or bad?

Atholton High School this High School was best High School for sports dance !!!!Although the school…read morerate 10 out of 10 on great schools.orgTeachers are responsive and seem to care. Homework loads seem lighter than what I Experienced when I went to high school. I'm not hating I'm just saying.

My daughter goes to Silver Oaks. She is a first grader now, so it is our second year. We really…read morelike it. My daughter is sad, when she is sick and can't go to school. The teachers are wonderful. There is so much I want to learn from them! They are calm, positive and knowledgeable. The school has several "specials": Spanish (2 times a week!!), Art, Music and Taekwondo. Kids eat their lunch and snack outside. They also have some free playtime outside. The classes are small, 12-14kids in the class. Looks like academically the school is doing good too. My daughter can read and write already. Knows the same things (maybe even more) than her friends from other schools (public or private).

Warning: This school requests removal of uncomplimentary reviews. They previously removed 2…read morenegative/mixed reviews from other former members. I know this because I was contacted by those former members. We also had a mixed experience at this school. Academics are weak, but outdoor play/work time was nice and plentiful and the community of families was supportive. We wanted this school to be a success, but over time we we observed more and more troubling disconnects between the school's stated ideals and the reality in the classroom.  This would normally be fixable, but unfortunately we also found transparency and openness to constructive feedback to be an issue. Just two of these disconnects are detailed below: 1.) Although I was repeatedly assured by the director and the Kindergarten teacher that Kindergarteners and 1st graders are provided with consistent phonics instruction, it turned out that balanced literacy was actually implemented i the K and 1st grade classrooms. Had the school leadership been transparent about their approach ahead of time, we would have been able to have made an informed decision (and would not have enrolled our kindergartener.) I would encourage all parents of Kindergarten and 1st grade students to research literacy education and in particular the differences between systematic phonics instruction and balanced literacy. Here are some references which may be a good starting point: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading https://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25919951&bcid=25919951&rssid=25919941&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Few%2Findex.html%3Fuuid%3DE973330E-E51D-11E9-9B3A-8AF258D98AAA 2.) Although Silver Oaks presented itself to us as embracing each child's unique character and developmental trajectory, this attitude was missing in our interactions with her teacher. At our mid-year conference we were informed (to our surprise) that our kindergartener's behavior was so outside the norm that a pediatric visit was urgently called for. We were surprised at the teacher's lack of curiosity about school-factors that could be influencing our normally well-behaved child, her emphasis on intrinsic pathology, and her decision to wait so long to communicate what she described as a several months-long pattern. Our experience was not unique. Some children appear to do well, and others don't. Our curiosities about this include: - Are the behavioral expectations at Silver Oaks Cooperative School reasonable for all 5-year olds? Is there some normal variation which is not being permitted? - Are the academic expectations reasonable given the choices of curriculum materials (or lack thereof), the emphasis on independent or small-group work, and the somewhat limited daily academic time (as much of the day is spent outdoors, in free-choice, or in electives). Perhaps it is not possible to do and be all things simultaneously. - Are there too many transitions in a Silver Oaks day (most children struggle with frequent transitions / interruptions from their learning and play)? - Are there too many different teachers/caregivers/coopers with different behavioral expectations and do some children struggle with having so many of those transitions? - Are some children bored or otherwise not being fully engaged academically? We were sorry to part ways with the many lovely families we met, but eventually these and other issues were too big for us to ignore.

Send your kids here for a great education! Wonderful atmosphere and loving teachers. They also open…read moreup their gym to CAA on nights and weekends which I think is so great. Wonderful school!

Very impressed with the teachers and management at the school. We've two years under our belt and…read moreintend on sending our other two children there as well. Everyone we talked to about the school recommended it - and now we see why.

Literally the best high school you could choose. I am now in my Junior year in high school and am…read moreloving it. The Athletics program is not the best but we have a few good teams here and there. Teachers are great, there is one or two staff members students don't like compared to the 20+ staff members that students love. The after school programs/clubs are great and if there isn't one about you like you could always create your own. The food is lovely and if you would like it to be better you could always order cafe from the Culinary students. Its location is amazing, after school you can walk over to walgreens, mcdonalds, and/or five guys and make it back to your bus in time. The Primes/Magnets are phenomenal. With Culinary bringing us cafe, Dance & Vocal bringing us shows, Carpentry building us items, Visual Arts bringing us beauty, I.T. making us programs, & Cosmetology doing our hair we create the best school possible. And + the new building is amazing.

Nice elementary school at my family and I visited and took pictures of the murals that was on the…read moreschool. They had to murals and a fantastic park that we took pictures of and I let my kids play on it and we had a really good time