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[quote=Anonymous]It's disappointing but I have to confirm as a parent with 2 kids at SSSAS for a number of years, posters are correct when they talk about the school going downhill in recent years.

Their LS is very good. The teachers there make it so esp as you get to the higher elementary grades.

The US is run by a HOS that is really on top of things.  He is responsive and I feel like again, the teachers make the place worth it.

The MS has gone downhill really fast however.  There seems to be the most issues as a whole there from picking teachers that should never have been hired and the change in their Head maybe impacts negatively.  That guy is now only a teacher but the new guy had been an admin for years but this yr I've notice significant changes in a number of ways that detract from the quality of admin addressing concerns and communications.

Unfortunately MS is typically when a lot of public families consider private as we surely did too.  A lot of our friends moved on to BI and I think the popularity of that school has driven its quality higher.  However as it's Catholic school, you'd have to be comfortable with that, which we are not.  I still think US SSSAS works but in a few more years it's hard to say.  My kid who is older has a better class than my younger - stronger academically focused and better behaved kids in general.  I think there's a lot more work the MS is trying to do in making the transition from MS to US more seamless as they must recognize there are more unhappy families there.

From a location perspective in Alex, it's hard to find another school in proximity to a commute but just want to put it out there that the MS is prob the weakest of all campuses these days. There are still a few excellent teachers there but our experience is that it's a harder 3 yrs than the other 2 campuses because if the administration.

Good luck everyone! It's always hard deciding on schools and there's no perfect one esp when you pay so much for these schools.  Every class differs so luck is involved in how your family does but the admin is so important in helping navigate through bumps.  My sense is that the good ones are super laser focused on solving probes while the less good ones are more about keeping the peace in a manner of speaking,  consider asking about different scenario approaches when you talk to the school admins when you check out schools.[/quote]

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