St. Joseph Elementary School

The principal is dedicated to doing what's best for the students, and the teachers all have credentials with many having masters degrees. My children love the sense of community, and they also enjoy the chess club, the sports, and the music program. The school has made a new commitment to improving technology within the curriculum, and it will give my kids a new set of skills for the real world.
--Submitted by a parent

This school has been great for my girls. They love all of their teachers and their academic program is challenging. The parent involvement is great! St. Joseph's Elementary is a nice community that my kids enjoy being a part of where they are learning important values such as respect for themselves and others and importance of family. The school offers extracurricular activities such as sports and music (choir and band) for little or no additional cost. I highly recommend this school. You get a lot without paying a high private school price.
--Submitted by a parent

K - 4th grades are very strong. The middle school (6-8th grades) are in a shambles. These grades do still tend to fill up, with 34-36 kids per grade, primarily due to the even poorer quality of the local, public middle school. Hopefully the new principal can get the school's house in order.
--Submitted by a parent

St. Joe's offers solid opportunity for K-4 education. Good kids, caring, competent teaching staff. The upper grades have been plagued with staff turnover and suffer from lack of coherent science and math programs. The new principal may be able to solve these problems, but it will take time.
--Submitted by a parent

Great community school. Excellent teachers, and strong curriculum. The students are well behaved and respectful of their teachers, peers and parents. I am also impressed with the way the older students help out the younger students.
--Submitted by a parent

In our first year of attendance at St. Josephs, we have already been highly impressed with the overall balance of the curriculum and the school as a whole. There is a genuine sense of community that is felt throughout the school. I have been impressed with the service opportunities that the students are involved with. Also the classroom management has been impressive as well - the students are well-behaved and the teachers truly dedicated.
--Submitted by a parent

St. Joseph's offers incredible opportunities for students for participation in student government, sports, music and other extra curricular activities such as chess club at lunch and science classes and math tutoring after school. It provides a support group Bridges for children suffering a loss (divorce, death) that is incredible!The smaller size of the school allows students of all abilities to participate and grow at their own speed with great support from faculty and other students. Larger class sizes have never been an issue as each grade has their own assistant for the teacher and by grade 4 the class size is comparable to public school. Only down side is cost (when compared to 'free' in public school) but when compared to other private schools tuition is not out of line.
--Submitted by a parent

SJES currently provides a high quality Catholic education to some 260 students in grades K-8. The school has a tradition and history since 1881! The school is 'sistered' to St Joseph Notre Dame High School and both schools reside on a common secure and private campus. This is a community of students and families with significant parent involvement. If you seek a high quality education in a safe and healthy Catholic learning environment then SJES is as good as it gets.
--Submitted by kevin Milroy, a parent

St. Joseph Elementary School is only interested in two things: money and children who 'fit the mold'. I strongly discourage parents from sending their children here and I, myself, am an alumni. It is not at all the wonderful school it once was.
--Submitted by a parent

St. Joseph Elementary is a reasonably good school. Class size is far too large for teachers to handle effectively and the footprint of the school is too small to accommodate the amount of children. The school community is excellent and parents participate at a high level. They could use more classroom assistance and more after school programs in math, language arts and science. Teacher turn over continues to be a problem and soon, the school will be on their third principle in three years. Home involvement is critical for any student to succeed here.
--Submitted by a parent