Our Lady of Guadalupe School 1115 South Florissant Road, St. Louis, MO 63121

"Worst Private School Experience, we do not recommend OLG School. Our child had an IEP which we understand is not treated the same on the Private School level. But, despite us emailing the school that there was an IEP and the school from last year sending over school records. They were not aware of the IEP or so they claimed. Our child was bullied by another student and for some reason the School did not feel it was a big deal. There are no discipline procedures in place (i.e. 1st occurrence in school suspension, 2nd occurrence suspension, up to and including expulsion) . Instead there seems to be more of a focus on profits/tuition. An expelled child means less revenue, so regardless of your child having issues, it will be swept under the rug. Escalating concerns to the administrative office falls on unconcerned territory....requests for meetings get placed on the backburner. We felt that the tenured students got preferential treatment when issues are reported and new students get detained and questioned as if they were the instigator. We did not have a good experience with OLG, it was nothing but stress and a high level of disregard. Even up to and including requesting to withdraw our child. FACTS, which is the tuition company would not close our account per our request and the school needed to notify FACTS. We were still receiving statements from FACTS, we never contacted FACTS to setup the payment plan. We ended up involving the Attorney General to get some type of resolution. All that happened is that the Archdiocese legal counsel sent a very sarcastic reply that they are not obligated to work with FACTS to close accounts. We had spoken to another family who had issues with OLG not closing the FACTS account and they were not able to get transcripts for their children, it was a long drawn out issue and we did not want to be in that scenario and tried to stay on top of the issue. The dismissal is very unorganized when it is cold or raining. One day you walk in and can go certain route to pick up your child. Literally, the next day you try going the same route and will be scolded by staff as if you were a student to not walk that same way you did yesterday. They make up rules as they go along, there is no communication nor replies to emails. We can not understand in 2024 why they even use email, they barely reply to that form of communication. Just for laughs and in closing, we had sent an email to the Regional Director or whatever her title is in December 2023 and received an automatic reply that she was out of the office for dates in July 2023. So if they do not update their automatic email replies...you can imagine how much effort and energy is put into anything else. Just our experience, I'm sure there are families that LOVE the OLG school and staff, we are just not one of those families."

"Magnificent"

"The best fish fries in Ferguson...(sorry Calcutta) Book fairs and other fundraising events are always a great experience. Top that off with friendly staff. Makes this place awesome!"