Spring Hill School

Spring Hill is an excellent school. Our daughter has attended there for 2 years and we have been very happy with the teachers, their commitment and dedication to the children. It is a warm, inviting and friendly community where I feel as a parent that I am a partner in my child’s education. I have a highly gifted child with unique academic and intellectual needs.
The school has a a new Design Lab and the staff have undergone extensive design thinking training where the students are combining creativity, art, problem solving, collaboration skills to solve complex wicked problems in the community and society in meaningful ways.
I am a former K-​12 Teacher and college Professor, so have very high standards when it comes to education. I highly recommend Spring Hill School for children that need individualized learning that will foster their creative, intellectual, curiosity and imagination.

Last night we went to this year’s 4^th/​5^th grade play. I’ve been delighted for the past 24 hours! Every child in the play won my heart over. A life time memory. Thank you, Spring Hill Teachers! We’re a very demanding group of parents, and the teachers still managed to bring out the best in each, individual child. My hat goes off to you all! Bravo!!!

We finally pulled our daughter from a public school situation that was continually disappointing– no real challenge or creativity. We have been very happy with Spring Hill so far. Very small class sizes for individual attention, creative and challenging curriculum that has my daughter engaged every day, and teachers that are responsive to the special needs of my family. She’s taking Latin and Spanish and loving both… who would’a thunk? After school they’ve got enrichment classes like guitar and art, both of which my daughter enjoys.
I don’t agree with every approach they take, but I bring up my issues and teachers have been very receptive to my input. You can’t ask for more than that.
I’m not one of those parents who wants to program her child’s life or stress her out by training her for an Ivy League school from the cradle (kids need to be kids), and I was concerned that Spring Hill might be ‘one of those’ sorts of schools. But it isn’t. The teachers and Principal are really flexible and you can shape your child’s experience to fit their individual needs and your value system. I like that.

Transferring my son to Spring Hill was one of the best decisions I have ever made for him. He spent the first half of Kindergarten at our local public school feeling bored and unchallenged. Just a couple of weeks after starting Spring Hill he was like a new kid! He started coming home from school talking excitedly about what he’d learned that day. Patty and Sandy, the Kindergarten teachers, are a phenomenal team and their class size is small.
Unlike at the public school where my son was expected to wait while other children «caught up» on basic skills, Spring Hill has an advanced and differentiated curriculum so that each child can work at their own level. Starting in Kindergarten, my son was placed into a reading group at his level, as well as a math group at his level. Not only that, he got to learn SCIENCE –his favorite subject – starting in Kindergarten. My son also receives Art, Drama, P.E., Spanish and Music lessons year-​round, not just for brief sessions throughout the year. All the teachers in these different subjects are fabulous and obviously love their jobs and the kids. My son’s First Grade teacher, Kim, is very high-​energy, devoted, and wonderful with each of the kids.
My husband and I had always thought that we’d send our children to public school, but we’ve found that paying for a private school education at Spring Hill has been worth every penny (and Spring Hill is actually thousands of dollars cheaper than some of the other private schools in the area). We will be sending our daughter to Spring Hill as well when she is old enough.

The principal is a beacon of goodness. The Teachers are enthusiastic and talented. The Parents thoughtful and the supportive. The Children are gifted and compassionate. Working together, this school has consistently produced top results. The standards are high, and there are a great many activities.
I am a parent with multiple children at Spring Hill. The community is wonderful, I’m proud to be a part of it all. Hope that other stories are taken with a grain of salt; the truth is if you show up prepared, are kind and accommodating, you will fit in perfectly and have a great year. The community is so supporting as well!

Spring Hill is a gem of a school. When our bright, energetic child was bored in preschool, we knew he needed to be challenged academically but we worried about losing the sweet, supportive environment at his preschool. With Spring Hill, we got both: enough work to keep his busy mind occupied and an incredibly caring community of teachers, students and parents. The principal has been with the school for decades and makes a personal connection with each child. The interaction between the younger and older children is delightful, and the school encourages this through a 1^st Grade-​6^th Grade buddy program. The differentiated curriculum allows kids to work ahead in math and reading while remaining with their age group socially. The school’s Invention Convention is a truly unique program that encourages kids to be imaginative and inventive. We were only committed to Kindergarten when we started at Spring Hill, but we loved it so much we stayed. We would recommend this school to anyone, but especially families with kids who need an advanced curriculum and the freedom to work ahead when they are ready.

Yikes! A fool and his money are soon parted. My son has a genius IQ & has consistently scored in the top 95^th percentile for his age. Add to that solid 100 percent correct in certain subject areas for three years straight on standardized tests. So my kid is brilliant. But they rejected us because he didn’t do that well in two areas on his assessment test. They were also snotty and rude and condescending. I’m glad now he isn’t going there, I won’t have to pay :). The bottom line: they aren’t necessarily looking for «gifted kids»! Also, I know some alumni from this school who are now grown up pompous jack-​asses who strut around like they are lords.

This is one amazing little school. The teachers and staff are of the highest quality, enthusiastic and competent at what they do. The school is safe, warm, and engaging.
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