South Hills Academy

If I could give this school 0 stars I would the Principle Mrs T. lacks character and professionalism she is a "Karen" and a bully I heard she is allegedly prejudiced keep in mind international students and other poc children come to this school! As a mother it concerns me that our children are in the hands of someone like her!
Jan 30th, 2023

I brought my kids over from public school to South Hills Academy last year. All of the kids at SHA are incredibly sweet and kind. This school is absolutely amazing. The entire staff is incredibly friendly, professional, and their number one priority are the students and their education. The academic courses the school offers are superior to any other private school, and especially to the public education system. I HIGHLY recommend this school to all parents.
Sep 26th, 2022

Negative (-) infinity star!-BRIBES STUDENTS -NO GOOD EXAMPLE (Worker gossiping about parents teacher their own coworkers their boss, etc)-EXAGGERATING COMMERCIAL: they will introduced you to Lab, sport area, etc but don't expect that your kids will have an chance to do so. All they will do is set you up with web study teacher come in tell ask what is a what is b look like apart from that they wont explain any extra even when you stuck with work they cant even help you find the solution(some teachers try come back in 3days with unsolved problems to the assignments that they assigned on the web by themselves) and tell us to solve problems by ourselves. No solution for the assignment they give no explanation. All matters to them is you know how to do get grade if your don't then you stuck and repeat the process until you learn by yourself but how do they expect student to learn without proper instructions and explanation!STATE OR RELATED DEPARTURES SHOULD INVESTIGATE!There are a lot of judgements secretary front office teachers workers they will judge and gossip about students and their coworkers around the school area. (You wouldn't want your kids to be in the environment like this)You wont get you Deposit back ever! As you realize they will be school deposit money for every students to enroll so incase your kids break something in school. They wont return it to you and neglected it when you ask about it.I was experiencing it by myself i went to high school their for2 years as international student (paid extra extreme price for LOW Quality knowledge!) Some teacher are great (at least get to learned how injustice the world was). But some who were teach junior and senior cant even solve grade3 math! Plus when some teacher Run late will BRIBES students with food, drinks, extra credit, etc (teachers can be late but ever students run late equal punishment) Students were speaking Chinese more than English!So many injustices going on inside school. Ask me more what you guys want to know about this hell in real world! IF SOMEONE KNOW MORE INFORMATION ABOUT LAWS AGAINST PRIVATE SCHOOL LET ME KNOW PLEASE BECAUSE IM CORRECTING AN EVIDENT TO FIGHT FOR MY JUSTICE and another future students(kids) for not becoming this school victim like me.
Aug 24th, 2022

Had a tour today. Went great. Staff was extremely nice, curriculum is amazing for young children to get ahead. Will definitely send my children here.
Aug 5th, 2022

Don't be fooled by their website.I want to start this off with something weird I saw when I was trying to figure out the entrance of the school. I walked all the way to the left (facing the school) and saw clothes hanging up on a fence with a trailer on property. I thought this was already weird. The cost to bring your child here is the same as a really nice one in Glendora. This school looks like an old, underfunded public school while it costs almost the same as a school that has advanced technology classes for young kids. The principal or head of staff (whatever he calls himself) tried too hard to make it seem like the students like him, but it seemed like they sorta didn't. He also only addressed the father of the child more during the tour, which we both found pretty inappropriate. There was a really weird feeling in the environment when he interacted with some of the teachers. He seemed to be sort of trying to figure out where we stood with religion, social views, etc to try to change the subjects and vibe of the tour to whatever our beliefs and views might be which felt awkwardly forced. They try to advertise the dance, art and music rooms but they remind me of seriously underfunded public schools. There's this school that we compared this school to. We compared prices, tours, everything. It was surprisingly cheaper to go to Foothill Christian School on Baseline Rd in Glendora. It's a VERY nice school. We can definitely see where the money is going. Shoot, the Foothill Christian School has a professional Italian catering company that provides their students' lunches. This South Hills Academy gives me the impression that they save as much money as possible with the lunches they give. The office looks really nice compared to the classrooms. The classrooms are dark and gloomy while the office has a nice and bright atmosphere. At the end of the tour, I had reached out to have the information packet handed to me since they were about to give it but he instead went past me and handed it to the father. Again, seems very toxic. That's some big red flags to show when trying to impress people during a tour.Needless to say, we will not be bringing kiddo here for plenty of reasons. We are just absolutely baffled that the cost is about the same, more depending on what payment plan you choose (it's more expensive if you choose a more spread out payment plan), than a REALLY nice school that seems incredible in comparison. I hope these details help others.
Mar 4th, 2022