As an alumni of St. James Pre-school (Class of 89) when we started looking for a pre-school for our own son, the choice seemed obvious to check out St. James. We visited other schools in the area and didn’t feel the same sort of nurturing and warm environment as we found at St. James. Our oldest son started 3 days after his second birthday and that nurturing environment is exactly what we were looking for given his age and having been cared for by Grandma and Grandpa prior to starting school. The transition was seamless and Ms. Tina was amazing with him. Potty training was a breeze between Ms. Tina’s guidance and the “peer pressure” of seeing other students use the toilet. Pre-school and Pre-k  were amazing with the play based learning method, learning came easy and included, chapel, learning to recognize sight words and write the letters and alphabet and even basic Spanish. Our son easily transitioned to kindergarten this year and recently tested at 2nd grade level, which we attribute to the great foundation he received during his 3 years at St. James. He is always happy to return to St. James during school vacations where he is a part of the School Age program.

Our younger son started in September in the two’s program and instantly our friends and family started commenting on how much his vocabulary had grown in such a short amount of time, he is also potty trained well before his third birthday and we didn’t even consider any other schools for him. He loves the teachers and is happy to be at school. We are so lucky to have our boys in a loving, nurturing environment. St James has been instrumental in teaching our boys academically but also spiritually (chapel), socially (respecting adults, classmates, and animals), and environmentally (recycling). We couldn't be happier with our experience at St. James.