We absolutely love Immaculate Conception!! Immaculate Conception has offered our children a safe, welcoming, and community-oriented environment. The teachers and staff have always gone out of their way to make our children feel welcomed, cared for, and appreciated. My children have grown so much in the 3 years they have been at Immaculate Conception. There is such sense of community from parents and students at Immaculate Conception School. They truly are The Little School With the Big Heart!

Our experience has been wonderful! We pulled both of our children from the local public school and have been nothing but thrilled. Immaculate Conception has offered our children a safe, comfortable, community-oriented environment. They have helped our children adapt, and were patient and helpful towards them as they were getting used to new, more challenging, academic standards. The teachers and staff have always gone out of their way to make our children feel welcomed, cared for, and appreciated. I see an amazing change in my children. They are growing into compassionate, hard-working, faith-filled students. I am constantly overwhelmed by the sense of community that exudes from the parents and students at Immaculate Conception School

Love love love this school!! Wouldnt send my kids anywhere else!! I have a child in Pre-K, first grade and sixth. The teachers are amazing. Small classes, plenty of individual attention, the Principal knows the children by their first name and NOT because theyre in trouble :) My children thrive here and are ahead academically in comparison to a local public school. Very strong sense of Community. All of the staff love my children as much as I do. What more could you want as a parent?

My daughter currently attends Immaculate Conception and loves the school and the staff. The staff is accommodating, kind, and professional. We love being a part of the ICS family.

We have been a school family for over 5 years, and we are so happy with ICS! They have great academics and the teachers and staff truly model the love of Christ.

A very warm and nurturing environment. Any child would thrive here. Lots of individual teacher attention.

My experience with this school was nothing short of a nightmare. My daughter attended ICS for almost 4 years, from kindergarten to mid year third grade. She left in December 2017. From day one, we were treated differently than other families, most notably by Mrs. Jeanne Dinkle, the principal, and a couple teachers. I never knew exactly why they discriminated against us, as I had a great relationship with ICC & had even taught Sunday School there for 2 years.I had some ideas though. As a single, never married mother, I wasn’t as financially well off as the other families there, but I worked hard and certainly paid the same tuition as everyone else. My daughter’s father’s appearance didn’t quite fit in with the other dads there. He’s a hardworking, blue collar guy who owns a landscaping business, & he’s a wonderful father. But whenever he’d come into the office or attend school functions, Dinkle would look him up and down disdainfully, taking in his jeans, Timbs, t-shirts, hats, and hoodies disapprovingly. He was quiet & polite, but to her he obviously didn’t fit into the typical mold of what an ICS dad’s appearance should be. 🙄 This principal’s icy cold demeanor and judgemental attitude was the polar opposite of what a Catholic, Christ like school should be. It was also the opposite of how she treated other ICS families.I know there are many families who Dinkle treats wonderfully who can’t imagine her acting this way. I tried hard to pretend I didn’t notice when I’d drop my daughter off for school in the morning & she’d warmly greet all the other parents, yet would not even make eye contact with me. I tried to act like it was no big deal when they demanded that my daughter’s doctor’s notes have her diagnosis listed on them, as if they did not believe me that she was sick, & a doctor’s note was not enough. Despite that we paid the same tuition as everyone, we were NEVER treated like everyone else. Dinkle and a couple of the teachers there (not all of them) treated me, my mother, my daughter’s father, and even his mother with such disrespect that I was brought to tears on more than one occasion. At first it was things like being given the cold shoulder & barely spoken to when I volunteered at the school. Then it was snide remarks & being asked weird, interrogating questions when my daughter was absent from school. Dinkle & other teachers made it quite clear to us that their institution was very elitist, and our family would never quite make it into the “ICS club”. They wanted us out from the beginning. I tried hard to act Christian, despite their hypocrisy. My own mother was an ICS alumni. For almost 4 years this behavior went on, and I ignored it. I was convinced my daughter could get a good education & learn good values. I wasn’t going to let a bunch of snobs push us out.But this year, everything came to a head. My daughter started coming home in tears daily about being bullied by some of the boys. It was destroying her confidence. We reported it to the school many times. They did nothing & the bullying only got worse. They were very nonchalant about it & my daughter was starting to call herself stupid & dumb because she was starting to believe what the bullies were saying. I finally stopped ignoring their terrible behavior, & started calling them out on it. I emailed Mrs. Dinkle and 2 other school officials outlining all the atrocities that we’d been victim to over the years, how unchristian it was, and that it needed to stop. This did not go over too well. People running a Catholic school do not like to be called unchristian. After receiving my email, Mrs. Dinkle called me the DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS break to tell me (over the PHONE) to withdraw my daughter from school. Obviously she wasn’t going to be truthful, which is that she disliked our family and my emails, so she said the reason was that ICS did not have the “resources” to support my daughter, yet she couldn’t explain what those “resources” were.Church exempt schools like ICS answer to no one but themselves. It’s a real shame. Good riddance, ICS.

I’m deeply saddened and disappointed to leave this review. I am an ICS alumni, who attended Immaculate Conception School in the 60’s, before I even became a Catholic. My Catholic granddaughter was treated worse than I was as a non Catholic at the same school. I’ve also been a member of Immaculate Conception Church for many years. Unfortunately, it was a long time ago when I attended this school, and they’ve changed dramatically since then in so many ways. My granddaughter attended ICS for nearly 4 years and her experience was emotionally crushing. She was nothing less than a victim of the elitist attitude that permeated the upper echelons of this school. I feel that my daughter was judged of less importance because she was never married and has a child. ICS sadly shows extreme favoritism to families that they feel are “better” than others. On many occasions, we were given the cold shoulder and it was made clear that we weren’t welcome in their clique.Immaculate Conception School does nothing to stop bullying and they discriminate against whomever they feel doesn’t belong, with no regard to the family’s feelings. For example, my granddaughter told the other kids she had a black pot bellied pig and another kid started calling her “racist.” When she said she liked a particular girl in her class, she was called a “lesbian.” She was called stupid & dumb constantly & told she couldn’t do anything for herself if she asked the other kids any questions, even for the page number. She was singled out by the boys and another girl in her class, & was tormented daily. This was reported to the school principal and her teachers repeatedly and nothing at all was done. It was brushed off and ignored. Instead of addressing the bullying, the school accused her of stealing a pencil from another child, which the teacher actually wrote on a report. It turned out she had borrowed a pencil & forgotten to return it. Instead of focusing on the bullying, they overreacted about a PENCIL.These are not Christian values being taught. The kids doing the bullying certainly aren’t being taught how to be kind to one another. I know my bible and the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22) are not being taught here. Among the many fruits of the spirit are love and kindness. How is this attitude towards my family loving or kind? What would Jesus do? Love your neighbor as yourself. There is much more friendliness in public school. Public schools teach diversity and celebrating one another’s differences much MORE than this school. Parochial school officials need to remember that they are Christian role models and not be overly judgmental.The class sizes are not small, as private schools should be and as this school claims to have small classes. Their class size limit is 30 kids. What’s the point of attending private school if the class sizes are no smaller than public schools? The point WOULD be Christian values, but that’s not happening here. Also, if a child has any type of learning issues, even mild ADHD, they claim to not have the resources to support them. If they don’t have the resources to support a child with mild ADHD, why do they accept public school funding, and what do they do with it?I’m ashamed of Immaculate Conception School and their decision to ostracize an 8 year old girl for no other reason than not feeling warm & fuzzy towards her family. My daughter questioned their treatment of our family and this didn’t go over well with the principal. They refused to acknowledge her feelings or offer any suggestions to improve our relationship with them. All in all, I’m very thankful that my granddaughter is now receiving the education she deserves since she is no longer at ICS. This school’s officials in no way exlempify Christ, as a Catholic school should. I’ve never written a negative review in my life. I’m a reserved person who doesn’t like confrontation and often holds her tongue. I always give the benefit of the doubt. But this went on for 3 years & I feel the need to speak out so that no other families are treated the way that ours was.

Idk it just feels right

Terrible school