Renaissance Charter School at Crown Point

This school was one of the BEST schools i had ever went to. I still remembered my best moments and the time when i first started there.The staff was perfect and the school was always organized and clean and up to date. IN REMEMBRANCE OF 2015!!

Both of my children have gone here, my oldest for three years. I’ve hung in there thinking that they deserved a chance to get it together because it’s a new school. I won’t be hanging in there any longer. The beginning of this year, they completely neglected to put my kids on their after care bus, and I had no idea until the after care called to see why they weren’t at school. Then, an office staff member proceeded to blame my 7 year old and blatantly insult her. “I have kindergarteners that answer when their name is called.”nnWell I got passed that and moved on. Throughout the year though I would learn of school events very last minute. Spirit weeks and such. My kids can’t participate if I don’t have time to get what they need. Not everyone is a stay at home parent with time to do this stuff last minute. I also received almost no communication on what’s going on in class or homework assignments, or how much child is doing in class but continually heard from my daughter that she was kept out of recess for not finishing her school work. There are multiple apps plus email to keep in touch with the school, which is hard to keep track of and is extremely unorganized. I’ve sent messages and received no reply, wrote notes in my kids agenda and received no answer.nI’ve also had to pick my daughter up twice and keep her out of school all week. The office “nurse” says she has a fever and stomach ache. Both times she was picked up we took her temperature and her “fever” was exactly 99.4, a normal body temperature for a 5 year old. She is not sick. She come home and jumps and plays and laughs and knows very well that she got away with something. When I tried to tell the “nurse” that I was unable to pick her up she uses scare tactics. “Do I have your permission to call 911 if she starts seizing? It will be at your expense.” She says. I CAN NOT REITERATE ENOUGH, MY DAUGHTER WAS NOT EVEN SICK. “Her temperature is just RISING”. No ma’am, her temperature is 99.4, check your equipment.nnThey also called my e. Husband, who is not her father, and was supposed to be removed from their emergency contact records or year and a half ago. When I confronted her about that she said that his name was not on the emergency contact list but his number was. She proceeded to tell me that I needed to go on my parent dashboard to remove him entirely from the emergency contact list. Nobody said anything to me about this a year and a half ago. I went onto the website both from my phone and from a laptop to do so I logged into my parent dashboard and went to click on the emergency contact link but it directs me to the intent to return page. In fact, all of the links on that portion of the website did. So now I cannot remove my ex husband from their records.nnIn addition to all of this, the school Does a poor job of money management. They had a giant fundraiser the beginning of the school year and spent what they said was $12,000 on the outdoor movie theater screen, but every single week I am asked to bring in copy paper wet wipes and pencils and erasers. Does a poor job of money management. They had a giant fundraiser the beginning of the school year and spent what they said was $12,000 on the outdoor movie theater screen, but every single week I am asked to bring in copy paper wet wipes and pencils and erasers. It seems to me that basic school supply needs should be met before buying extravagant items that will be rarely used.nnLike boats.

Do not put your child in Renaissance!! My niece attends there (First year). Today my mother experienced a racial discrimination in the office today with a fellow staff member. She went to go pick up my niece early around 2:25 because she was called to pick her up at the last minute and she had a doctors appointment. Her and another African American guy was at the door of the school and they wouldn't buzz them in. But they had just buzzed another parent just before them. After my mother was finally buzzed in, she told them her situation. That is when the staff member told her that the office was close and she had to wait until school was over. She had her identification in hand and they made her walk all the way back to the car to get the car tag.While she was going to the car getting the car tag, another parent was buzzed in with no problem! after her! and she needed to pick her child up early too.The other parent didn't have to go back to her car to get the tag and the office members were friendly with her.I wouldn't refer this school to anyone. It hurts my mother because she never experienced that problem before.

Great school, have referred many parents here. No favoritism amongst parents and students with teachers. Highly competent front office staff. Teachers truly care about the academic strength of the students. All staff is perfect.

this school is trash there foods is always cold and warm there foods in a microwave. They want let you drink water in the hallways and there is no door on there bathrooms and the sink is on the outside of the bathroom.