St Francis Xavier School

SFX has proven to be excellent preparation for my son who is now a high school sophomore. The math and lit classes prepared him to enter into advanced level classes. With his honors-​level classes his GPA is rock solid and his college options will be many. I am seeing the same fantastic preparation for our sons currently at SFX. How amazing it is to have academic excellence while promoting a solid faith formation and a dedication to serving others.

As a former student who attended Saint Francis Xavier from Preschool to 8^th grade, I have more than enough information to safely warn potential parents against enrolling their children in this Catholic school. I graduated less than 6 years ago, but have younger siblings who graduated last year. Speaking strictly on an education level (I personally had a wonderful experience with my classmates and have no reason to give a bad review over bad memories) I would say that this suburban elementary/​middle school is extremely below the neighboring public schools.
The teachers rarely follow curriculum and many are not particularly motivated to teach their students. Most students either don’t feel challenged or the ones that are struggling are not given the proper resources. The administration is more focused on nitpicking dress code and behavior rather than teaching. Their methods of confronting situations such as bullying are downright inhuman for children.
Going into high school, I felt extremely behind compared to my classmates because I felt Saint Francis Xavier did not prepare me for education beyond their small capacity for learning. They did not teach the basics of a proper high school level paper (which, by 8^th grade, I imagine at least grasping a sense of what a thesis was) and I was extremely stressed my first semester of high school because I had so much catching up to do that Saint Francis failed to teach.
Potential parents: If you’d like your kids to be respected, I suggest you do not allow them to attend SFX. The tuition money you are investing does not go near what little you are getting in return.
The transition from 6^th grade into middle school is absent; the students are not treated with more respect or giving more responsibilities, but instead are treated like they are still in the first grade.
Overall, the SFX parish is wonderful. The school as an education system is flawed at best (flawed is even a compliment for this school). There is no wonder why a classroom worth of students dropped out and the number of students enrolling in SFX decreases every year because the tuition is increasing.