United Faith Christian Academy, Charlotte | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

My wife and I spent a considerable amount of time trying to find the right school of our son before moving to the area. Unfortunately everything went wrong here. We have been “spoiled” by coming from a well organized, timely and all around great Christian School in South Carolina were we moved from. So our expectations were very high.

After 2 days at the school…we pulled out son. The final straw was a letter from the Head Mistress saying our son would be penalized for not attending an overnight retreat. This wouldn’t have been an issue , except it was a question we asked admission before committing and was told he could skip without penalty, -Chores at school with the Janitor-Really( Its 2019 People I am not letting my son go on a trip 6 days into a new school year with a bunch of strangers – Have you read the paper lately)

Unfortunately other than our interaction with Tonya in Admissions, everything went down hill from there.

I am just going to bulletin point everything and let you take it from there.

I do want to mention , that because of this , our son is now in Public School for the first time in his 7 years in school. The crazy part is, “free” school has been better organized and more professional and than UFCA.

When looking for schools in Early July We toured UFCA and our son also shadowed for a half day. The “showboat” part went well.

– 30 days before school started I was following them on Instagram and they said they would be posting a new post everyday until school started- The next day they missed the post which should have been my first sign (they missed several posts)

– An email was sent out 2 days before an Athletic Meeting even though we was out of time – A sign of how communication would be

– Open House was a mess- We were put in a crowded hot cafeteria, with no direction. We headed to the chapel on a whim after hearing another couple say they were heading that way.

– Open house started 7 minutes late – (This is school, c’mon people ), what are we teaching these kids. The Open House is where we found out school would run a little later than we were originally told – a blessing that it dint affect us, but what about the parents who it did affect

– We then as a crowd were asked for sponsorship (they called them partnerships but did not list any of the benefits to the payee” and they also talked about online reviews. – It was very uncomfortable and not professional at all

– The head mistress then had lots of back and forth in a very unorganized speech. There was no notes or references and it was scattered at best. It was not professional in the slightest and a horrible first impression.

– My sons first day of school was going to be great, as we pulled into the mess of a car loop line, The Bible Teacher begin yelling and being rude for No Reason (yes the Bible Teacher). After some back and forth (and no apologies) we headed around the car loop and asked the Head Mistress where to park to walk our son into his first day of school. She said that wasn’t allowed, and when I gave her that look she made an “exception” (is this really happening and let me walk our son in. When we got there the Teacher was not in the room, the door was shut and the lights were off, another teacher let us in the room…Great first day

– The next night was our “Soccer” meeting – Another unorganized joke. Not enough players, no roster call and then it went from practicing outside , to the chapel (yes they said they practice in the chapel) to an hour in the hallway in the most unorganized practice I have ever seen.

It was just too much so soon. The signs were there. I hope we can save you- By the way they are still charging my card – We will now be taking them to small claims.

Avoid this school!

I do not recommend this school. Most are not qualified to teach here. The teachers are underpaid and with that you get staff who are bright people, but not teachers.

They also have absurd tuition cancellation fees. My daughter wanted to transfer to AK high school because she had enough credits for public school to only attend half days. UF would have been full days.

Lori the basketball coach begged her several times to stay at the school and because my daughter loves pleasing others and has a great heart, she relunctantly agreed to stay on for Lori. Not for the other girls.

I was okay paying the tuition to help her team and Lori specifically. Next thing I hear is that Lori quit and decided to help her son with his new business. This was just after school ended.

My daughter then said, well I don’t want to go there then. I was only going to go there becaue I made a commitment to Lori. This was after school first got out.

So we reached out to Mrs. Blumenthal and she said if we don’t attend, we are on the hook for a $1000 withdrawal fee and 50% of the years tuition. I couldn’t believe it. Both my daughter and I sacrificed alot and in turn when Lori quit they didn’t want to hear our side of things.

They said absolutely no exceptions. Would Jesus do this to others? I don’t find this very Christian like at all.

They do require you to cancel in may if you’re not going back to the school, but this was a totally different situation.

Based purely on principal we left the school.

Shame on Mrs. Blumenthal and the Board .