Renaissance Kids

Sadly this was a complete waste of time and money for us. After over $ 3000 for private lessons, 20 private hours, and tons of homework time, our child scored exactly the same on the official ISEE as on the practice (in the 4 – 6 range). Communication with RK was difficult– usually curt and by email. I once walked on the tutor getting frustrated/​agitated with my child. My child is eager to please and worked hard but I think the tutor taught by rote and didn’t tailor the lessons to help my child with specific skills/​weaknesses.
Again — a complete waste of time and money. At least I know where we won’t be going for SAT prep.

I had my son in summer camp last summer and my son had an amazing learning experience. He learned to read in the short three-​weeks that he spent at Renaissance Kids. I wholeheartedly recommend the program.

Renaissance Kids is the ultimate learning institution!
I have been coming to Renaissance since I was about 7 years old. Anna, Frank, and Danielle have all helped me succeed in my academic studies. When I was younger, I was tutored in spanish and math. Around the age of 13, I attended ISEE testing camps and when Junior year came around, I attended SAT testing camps, along with private tutoring. I can’t remember who taught my ISEE camp, though I remember that Frank ran my SAT camp. Renaissance provided me (and the rest of the students) with the most elaborate binder I have ever owned! My SAT binder was filled with practice tests, explanations, vocabulary lists, latin root lists, and even a weekly agenda that listed the plans for each time our «camp group» met and our homework. .And the improvements were clearly visible after testing days past by!
I have found myself at Renaissance Kids the most during my last two years of high school. Danielle has truly been a friend at hand with my senior essays, including my research paper! The way she thinks and her level of intelligence just blows me away and I can trust her with any question I have with my papers.
Renaissance whole-​heartedly wants their students to achieve their goals, be happy, and succeed in their futures. I’m definitely going to miss them when I depart for college!
Renaissance is not a waste of your time, money, gas, or energy. Give them a chance, I assure you, you will be satisfied!

Renaissance kids offers something unique: a small, unpretentious, family-​run institution, which is perfectly designed to help your children navigate their way to a large, prestigious, higher learning institution. This is no mean feat, and will require effort on the part of students, but an effort that is rewarded by a sensitive staff that is brilliant, efficacious in their task, deeply caring for their pupils and who will facilitate their success. Anna, Frank and Danielle are wonderful, honest people, complete with passion, personality and quirks. They are amazing teachers, each in their own way, and they have personally vetted their staff. This sort of personalized methodology and attention to detail is a dying luxury in pedagogy. Avail yourself while it’s an option. Renaissance kids is not a machine, though its success rate could be forgiven for creating that impression… it is a remarkable learning environment.

My excitement about my son having ISEE prep at Renaissance Kids quickly faded after meeting Frank. He is very rude and curt with the children. After I signed my son up, I spoke with former families and even a teacher, and was told that Frank should not be around kids because of his condescending demeanor.
I am unable to recommend RK to anyone because of Frank. Anna and Danielle were okay. One last thing. Once I went to drop my son off at the upstairs classroom, and there was not an adult in the classroom, just several unsupervised kids. Anna, Frank, and Danielle were all downstairs. I always walked my son up to the classroom, and I’m glad I did. There should never, ever be a child in the classroom without a RK adult present. On that day I waited until an adult came upstairs before leaving my child for his class.

If you have small kids do not do mommy and me classes here. The teacher was rude to my one year son I have twins and teachers should understand when kids are tired. The class does not start when its supposed to. I just sit around with 1 year old twins and the class ends up being a half hour. Not a good place for mommy and me. I stopped going and they refused to refund me even half the money.