Intown Community School

We used to home school our kids, and Intown has a top-​notch program for homeschoolers. If you are a homeschooler anywhere near this place, you definitely want to link in with them. Great way for your kids to do cool things and meet up with other homeschoolers.
When we were ready to put our kids in school, we had a 6^th grader and a 8^th grader that we didn’t want to put in Henderson Middle. We put them in In-​town. It’s a covenant school so you have to be a Christian and you need to commit some time and effort. For me and my wife, it helped us a lot in our marriage. The kids both said they hated it. It was too clique-​ish, too much homework and the kids were mean.
Then we moved. Now our 7^th grader hates his new school more than he hated Intown and frequently says he misses Intown. I think he’d hate any school he was in, though.
The field trips at In-​town were awesome. They did a Jekyl Island tour that my wife helped chaperone, as well as a trip to Camp Highlands. The people are really involved, and most of the teachers are really, really good (shout out to Mrs. Barr, who was one of our faves)!
I always felt a little bit awkward at the mandatory monthly prayer group (people took turns praying out loud for various things, but it wasn’t too weird with people praying in tongues or anything) but it did keep parents connected.
In a nutshell, after having a little more experience with private schools, both me and my wife are glad we had Intown and leaving it was one of the negatives of our move.
By the way, even though the church is Presbyterian, my family is non-​denominational, born-​again christian (I guess my oldest calls himself Southern Baptist, but me and my wife were raised Catholic). If you aren’t a born-​again believer, you probably wouldn’t feel comfortable here (heck, you may not be comfortable even if you are, but what middle school is actually comfortable?). You certainly don’t need to be Presbyterian though.
A few months before our move, we did end up joining the associated church, but the school is run completely separately from the church.