Faith West Academy

Dianne Gutierrez _{on Google}

Oct 9th, 2022

Great school

Cindy Harrell _{on Google}

Sep 21st, 2022

Went to watch my Granddaughter play volleyball, her and her team did an awesome job and they had fun.

Reni Abraham _{on Google}

Mar 1st, 2022

This school has a lot of prejudice. The staff puts up a happy face but they can stab you from the back. Watch out!!!

Emma Estephan _{on Google}

May 17th, 2022

Please heed the bad reviews - prejudice, favoritism, and hypocrisy run rampant here. Sit back and grab a snack; its story-time.
I graduated from FWA in 2015. Their policy had /always/ been that if two students have the exact same GPA, then the title of valedictorian goes to whoever had the higher class averages throughout their 4 years of high school. This happened to me; I tied GPAs with someone, but I most definitely had the higher class averages (the fact that she had two more 5.0 classes to boost her GPA alone proves that). I get called down to the office one month before graduating and am told that, after changing my fine arts credits to P/F, I was valedictorian after all! I was over the moon. The next day, I get called back down to the office - well, actually, despite established policy, Mrs. so-and-so wants you guys to be co-valedictorians, and if you have an issue with that, then were going to have to take into account other things like extracurricular activities, absences, etc., in which case you may end up being salutatorian instead (they specifically mentioned those things knowing that she had less absences and more extracurriculars than me).
So, you may ask, why would administration tell a child theyre indubitably valedictorian one day but then coerce them into being co-valedictorian the next? Well, her mother had already been a teacher there for a number of years, and both her daughters had attended the school for a number of years, so they were a family-favorite. They had immediately went down to the office upon finding out she wouldnt be valedictorian after all, and Im willing to bet good money that she threatened to leave the school if her daughter was made salutatorian. At the time, I tried to make myself okay with the situation by reminding myself that Id still reap the benefits that come with being valedictorian - peoples comments of we know who the real valedictorian is were also pretty placating. However, looking back at it years later, I wish I had fought harder for myself. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the whole thing. I felt particularly hurt because I had actually liked that teacher and thought the girl was really sweet, but this incident showed their true colors as well as the true colors of the administration.
I regret not taking action against FWA, and its obviously far too late to do anything now, but I realized recently that there is value in sharing my experience with parents that are considering this school. If FWA did this to me, someone who was a model student, then they can do it to your children too (unless youre wealthy, white, conservative, religious, and a regular donor, then youre guaranteed to be in their select group of favorites). The negative comments pertaining to their focus on athletics, uncertified teachers, and archaic technology/curriculum were true during my experience. I would also add that although cliques are prevalent in all schools, due to the smaller student body size (my graduating class was ~34 students), the exclusivity was far more noticeable and felt to a greater extent.
In the interest of fairness, I will address my positive takeaways. A few teachers really did know what they were doing and more than adequately prepared us for college courses (Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Reed, and Mrs. Bickerstaff come to mind, very excellent). Not all of the administrators, parents, and students were two-faced; there were some genuinely kind, good-hearted Christians. Administration created a nice lounge for only seniors to relax and study in, and they allowed us little freedoms, like wearing jeans instead of standard uniform bottoms on Fridays and driving off premises during lunchtime to get food elsewhere. Our senior trip to Costa Rica was pretty sweet, and I look back on our experiences there with great fondness. I met a few lovely individuals that Im still friends with to this day who I wouldnt have met otherwise. Nevertheless, when I look back on my experience at FWA, I feel that the negatives considerably outweighed the positives.
~The End~