Southwest Charlotte STEM Academy, Charlotte | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

My child attended the school for kindergarten and part of first grade. We had an excellent experience in kindergarten with Mrs. Maxwell. She is awesome! First grade was a different story. The teacher had no control over her classroom and didn’t bother to take the students outside for recess. Instead the children were told they could bring in toys to play with. The school only has a field for the students to play on and some classes play in the lot where the buses are parked. My child caught covid. No one in the classroom was notified that their child may have been exposed to the virus, which led me to think that someone else in the classroom had the virus and we were not notified of the exposure. I notified the teacher that my child may possibly have a learning disability. The teacher never responded to me. I took my child to a therapist who typed up a letter to give to the school for testing. I was contacted and told how the process is handled. I was then contacted by another staff member who would handle the testing. We agreed on a time to meet for a zoom meeting. I was on the call, but the staff wasn’t. I followed up with an email and I got no response. The school is more concerned with how to raise money for the school than the education of their students. I felt like I had no choice but to withdraw my child in the middle of the school year.

I must say that my kids experience is totally different from the previous school they attended which was a charter school also. But SCSA has amazing teachers. At first I was skeptical for my kids to leave their friends behind from the other school, but I had to think about there education first. They have met amazing friends and now their friends from their previous school now attends SCSA. All I can say is “SCSA has to be doing something right, because it’s growing more and more with students around Charlotte. Might need to build SCSA Building 2 soon to accommodate our growing school.My children said that this is the best school ever