Merritt Academy

This is a treasure of a school. We’ve been there for three years, our two children have never had a finer educational experience. The 2 hours of homework per night keeps them engaged and challenged. The teaching staff if top notch. The administration works harmoniously with the faculty. Merritt is a value school and the children truly benefit from a no bully atmosphere and one that emphasizes courtesy, courage, self-​control, and sharing. We will be at this school as long as they have a program for our children. Five stars.

The preschool is one of the best in the area. The teachers and administrators have a genuine love for children. There wait list in the preschool is extensive! That alone tells a lot.

I wanted to follow up with my review. This is the first year we have had my daughter at the summer camp and we could not be happier. The people they have working the camp are top notch, no complaints at all. My daughter has so much fun, she usually falls asleep in the car on the way home she is so tired from field trips, swimming and playing and doing all sorts of events. I would highly recommend Merritt for not only summer camp, but for school as well. My father who lives in Florida saw my daughter for the first time in over a year and was amazed at how much she has changed and grown and matured in the past year and we owe a lot of that to Merritt!

If you want to waste your money, hire this academy. I hired this academy to look after my 11 year old daughter for two weeks during a month in the summer of 2009 and my daughter cited quite a few concerns. Once concern is that on a few occasions she witnessed camp counselors getting a little too close and friendly with each other behind the bleachers in the gym and we felt it was very inappropriate. One of the counselors failed to renew his/​her lifeguard certification and the kids spent the day watching cartoons instead of swimming in the pool as promised by the calendar of events. We were under the impression that they would be participating in creative activities, not watching TV. All in all we paid $ 770 for a 5 day period to care for my daughter. They require that you pay in advance for the weeks you want them to care for your children. We had to remove my daughter due to an urgent situation and they would not refund the extra $ 350 I had paid for the week she didn’t attend. If you want to waste your money on mediocre overpriced babysitting, then by all means choose this organization.