Reviews of Norfolk Academy (School)

Cooper Tyszko

i go there and all the 1 star reviews are wrong

Chrissy Thornburg

I ate their lunch of spaghetti and paper balls and I thought the paper could've used more salt.

frmus

This is where all of the kids with rich parents go to school! :D

RICH DOOD

They had fine croissants and buttery butters

Ch Ch

Great school.

KENNETH WHITEHURST

Mr. Gibson is the best. I'm not being forced. Only fools drop croissants.

airborneship

No dropped croissant here

Vijaya Arias

This school only looks good on the outside. The closer you get and the more involved you become its a big mess and a shame. People dont send their kids here to get a good education but so that THEY ONLY ASSOCIATE WITH OTHER RICH KIDS. Let me school you on whats going on here at this crappy social club. If you love your child and your child is smart... dont send them here to get “dumbed down”. Theyll get an education in how to step on theyre peers. The kids that go there are cruel to each other! Theyre worse than public school kids! Ive talked to some of them and the bullying is pretty bad. Theres always other kids whos parents have more money. Sad. Theyre good at ostracizing certain students for many years and your child will be stuck with the same group of kids year after year because its a small knit community. Its a good way to tear a childs confidence down systematically. In our experience- My childs grades and education went down after one year at this school. Her teacher spent the year marking correct papers wrong, which i then had to bring back to her to re-check and re-mark as correct. She made simple, yet unnacceptable mistakes such as telling my child wrong state capitals and pronunciations of well known global words. Correcting my daughter with the wrong pronunciation and forcing her to accept misinformation to the point of tears (my child is gifted and a perfectionist) on top of the teacher blatantly allowing bullying to be openly tolerated before my daughter eventually won over the girls in the class, my daughter was not well cared for at this school. I was surprised that no one was assigned as a regular, fulltime caretaker in the locker room and after swim lessons - they certainly can afford it- my child regularly left the locker room with drenched hair, making the outdoor walk in frigid winter temperatures back to the lower school class building. She subsequently came down with pneumonia. The freckled red headed woman in Lower school administration office was rude and dismissive of my concerns. Smirked in my face, and wished me and my child well at the next institution. I hadnt wven made ANY mention of my child leaving NA, but after that, I was obliged to do so. Absolute lack of empathy. Lack of concern for safety and wellbeing. If your rich and have influence in Hampton Roads youll be treated respectfully, but if your blue collar, paying the same tuition as everyone else your going to be treated as if your the help.

Stephan LeGuillow

Best choice I ever made for my child's education. They challenged her and pushed her to achieve greatness academicly and as a person. Instructors took the time to make sure not only does she comprehend but also apply what she has learned.

Owen Speers

i never dropped my croissant

Cynthia Moss

I've heard rave reviews so I decided to enroll my kids. It's only been 3 days but I'm extremely impressed by the passion of the teachers and the administration. Even the admissions process has exceeded my expectations.

Eric Wei

Where all the Norfolk snobby kids go

Andi Yuan

the best ever

Mike Cent

So I was told my 6 year old does not fit in. She does not fit in because she has two dads that are gay and married. She does not fit in because she is asain and she does not fit in because we are a military family. Heaven forbid a asian girl with two dads be accepted in to a school so she can learn. Sorry we are not rich and we can’t buy our way in to the school sorry one of us is not a woman so she can have a mommy and you don’t have to explain why our daughter have two dads and sorry my little brown asain girl does not fit your white narrative. It’s a real shame because she was looking so forward to going here only to break my daughters heart. Stay away if your gay, your kid is not white and if your poor they will deny your child’s entry.

Party Paula

Ah where do I begin with this atrocious, abomination of a private school district. This school had the worst library ive ever been to it only had 67843 books! And the campus only measures 12345678 feet long! Atrocious! And my 5 star meal for thanksgiving only tasted abou 4.9 star!