St. Michael's Episcopal Day School

When we toured this school, my biggest worry was the curriculum. I feel, for the money that I was going to be paying, that my child should be more academically challenged. The facility was nice and the teachers were friendly and warm, but the student body was not diverse and the parents seemed a bit elitist (totally undeserving). My family moved here from NYC and my children had always been in the top private schools. Not to say that it wouldn't suffice for most folks, but we felt this school lacked luster.

St. Michael's is an excellent school that provides our children with not only an excellent academic education, but also teaches the importance of treating themselves and the people around them with love and respect. In the three years we have been there, I have grown to love all of my children's classmates and have become friends with all of their parents. When I drop my kids off at school, I know they are getting an unparalleled education, being treated well and that they are safe. I would not consider sending my children to any other school. I love St. Michael's Episcopal Day School.
—Submitted by a parent

St. Michael's is an excellent small private school, with strong academics in a Christian environment. It has one class in each grade. The school long ago decided to excel not by growing, but by being the best with what it has. The Episcopal tradition focuses on how to think, not what to think, so there's religion without dogma. The head of school Father Vaughan teaches higher level grammar to 7th and 8th graders, and both my daughters (now grown) found that what they learned there was also taught in College Freshman English in college, on the one hand, and in the prep course for the GMAT, on the other. 'Didn't you learn this stuff in the 8th grade?' they both asked their puzzled classmates.
—Submitted by a parent