St.Clare School

This school has a great sense of community while ensuring that your children are safe, happy and learning. If you want to be sure that your child does not get lost in the shuffle, this is the place for you. The faculty, staff and other parents always know what’s up with the kids and always keep an eye out for the kids.

St Clare School is a wholesome, vibrant community and offers a well rounded curriculum including many «extras.» Our family is especially happy with the enriching diversity which is representative of the Silicon Valley. We have had only a few minor issues, but I think all schools will have things that you don’t 100% agree with or suit your child. We are happy here and are grateful for the opportunity for our children to feel safe, nurtured and supported in their school environment.

This review is for their summer school /​camp program. I enrolled my pre-​schooler in their kindergarten preparation summer school for eight weeks. We had a very bad experience. I waited almost a year to post this review because I wanted to be sure that I am not a super sensitive parent or trying to be in denial about my own child’s shortcomings. I can honestly say after a wonderful kindergarten year at another school that this school’s methods., philosophy and treatment of children is poor, pathetic and horrid. The teachers here are de motivated and obviously feel under paid and suited for something better in life.
My child had always been a happy sweet person who loved going to preschool. This eight weeks we saw him transform to a stranger. One day I went to pick him up to find out that my (then four year old) was made to sit in the hot summer sun for hour «time out» for being disruptive in class. At pickup the teacher told us, with my four year old holding my hand and listening that she had to «kick him out» of her class since he was not sitting still.
The teacher helpers are lazy and in my observance always talk down to children. When we challenged the teacher to explain how «kicking him out» and letting him sit in the outside area for an hour will address his learning or listening ability. she replied … «That’s all I can do … he is not my child that I raise my hand to him». The ignorant teacher helper then proceeded to say «that sometimes they just need a good smacking» My husband was appalled that in this day and age we still had such horrible mean people in charge of our children.
There were other incidences until finally we didn’t send him for the last week of school at all.
Still to be fair, I didn’t write this review then. We enrolled our child in another school for his schooling, and tried to be open minded about our or our child’s part in this. We saw him blossom again, he has since then been diagnosed with ADHD, his wonderful new teachers helped us understand his condition, got us the right evaluation and resources. He has been thriving, looking forward to going to school and learning to figure out his way.
In my opinion, St. Clare is one of the worst schools with the worst teachers that I have had experience with. I would not recommend this as a reasonable option for any parent that values their children.

I have sent 2 kids through St. Clare and I am ever grateful. The Silver Box program teaches respect for others. The religion teaches social justice. The teachers are committed and caring. Worshiping, Learning, Growing, is what St. Clares’s is all about

I went to school here. Great community, although there are some catty stuck up people. Stay away from them and don’t let them ruin your experience. I had great times here. Although i have to recommend that you switch schools when your child is going into middle school. The middle school part sucks. They didn’t prepare me for high school math. Although English and History is excellent on the middle school side and they even prepared me for college. The life skills and friends you will make here are forever. St. Clare will always be a huge part of my life.