St Hilary School

I transferred my kids to this school 5 years ago, having come from another Catholic school where we did not feel part of the family.
At St. Hilary, I was welcomed in, and made to feel part of the community right away.
I have seen the school go through many changes over the past five years, and like many families, we have had our issues, but like a good family, we work things out.
I am proud to say my children attend St. Hilary. Everyone that visits the school, and/​or interacts with the children, when they go on field trips, say that they are some of the best behaved children they have ever come across, very polite and well mannered.
Yes, the school needs some «upgrades», but those are temporary things that can be worked on, the important thing is that the staff and other families generally care about the kids.
I could not ask for a better experience for my kids.

I have been a part of the school for the last six years. Let me please enlighten you. The changes that are going on now are serious. Our new principal is someone who dedicates himself to the absolute growth of our children. I have never met an individual who will find a way to make sure your child receives the best education around. Can’t wait for year three… allot to look forward too…

I love st Hillary, this church ive been coming down to take classes out here. I’ve been coming here every Saturday, ive noticed that there are alot of God going people. church has plenty of parking. there is a school here. very big hall. bells ringing every hour.

I have my daughter in TK and she has learned a lot since she’s been there. The teachers there are so dedicated to teach the students good manners and respect others.

I spent a majority of my grade school years here, Kindergarten through Seventh, and I’m going to give you my honest opinion on what kind of an education I received. They taught me how to read, multiply, and behave with others. They were some of the kindest people that I have ever had the privilege of molding my young mind. My problem was that, like most schools, the education we received was meant to to be memorized for the state tests then completely gone within a few years.
Then there’s the arts… art classes from fifth grade on up were mostly spent drawing something that had been printed for us to copy and draw on another sheet of paper. It was not very fun and I did not enjoy myself at all. I drew and painted and I felt like I was learning nothing. I wasn’t being motivated and I felt my creativity dwindling into nothingness. I was never proud of the art I made in class and neither was my teacher.
Lastly, the class that made no sense to me then, and still makes absolutely no sense to me now was the music class from fifth grade on up. God’s honest truth, we watched musicals, took notes, and got tested on musicals. I learned nothing. Nada. Zilch. As much as I respect musicals now, and know how much work goes into them I don’t hate it as much anymore. But I will never forgive this school for wasting my parent’s hard earned money on a teacher that only taught us how to watch musicals and take notes. Now that I think about it, the notes we took didn’t help me with my note taking skills at all. In fact, the notes we took were, all synopsis’s of the movies/​musicals. A waste of time, and a waste of money.
This school is where I spent many of my years as a child. I was bullied, I was a bully, I was the quiet and nice kid, I was the weird «ching-​chong» Asian kid who «ate dog», I was the kid that was not very good at kickball, I was the mediocre student that some of the teachers kind of gave up on.
I will never forget this place. But I have to say, I am a successful 19 year old now, traveling, working, and learning at the world’s best Culinary College in upstate New York. I learned quite a bit at St. Hilary’s, but I learned more at the public elementary and high school which I transfered to in 2004.