Al-Hamra Academy

435 South Street

Shrewsbury, MA 01545

6 Reviews

School District
Grade

PK-8
Type

private

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Reviews

Submitted by other on February 21, 2025

This school is outstanding and empowers the generations beyond us to learn and have fun. The teachers are extremely kind and are professionals who know how to deal with children and help them learn. Al-Hamra Academy is an excellent school and I would recommend it.
Submitted by student on October 12, 2024

This school is the best school I have ever gone to. All the teachers have masters and PHD's and are very kind. While they do stop to make sure everyone understands, they move on if only one person isn't understanding, and they tried explaining it to the student. The classes are challenging, but not so much so that you can't understand it. While they do not have many afterschool activities, in my opinion they have the most important ones, like robotics and speech and debate.
Submitted by other on May 02, 2022

The school has great education, though sport, clubs, STEM, student council, and other extracurricular activities to be lacking. I am a student that transferred in third grade from Worcester, Grafton street school. I got straight A, and when I transferred I got straight D's even in 3rd grade. All the teachers have Masters, PHDs, and degrees like Engineering, biotech, English literature. Most transferring students have a similar story as mine. The school, or class environment I was in was very competitive for grades that can leave students behind. I would recommend your child to go to a after school Math, or English program if they're having trouble since the teachers will not slow or ease the class just to accommodate a student or two. If your child isn't doing great make sure you help them, this school isn't easy, and might need you to tutor your child. Most people when they complete middle school go straight into honors with relative ease. Most classes have 10-15 students with an average of 4-5 teachers that teach different subjects. Teachers knows every students strength, and weakness, though some teachers get to personal with the students. If you want your child to stay afterschool to do clubs, sports, and stuff like that this school is not it. Though before the pandemic they were making large advancement in extracurricular activities they had STEM, robotics where they got to state, girls on the run, knitting, cooking, football, they were in partnership or creating their own sports team I'm not sure though, I forgot. Great school for academics, not so great for extracurricular activities.
Submitted by parent on October 10, 2021

The teachers have low qualifications and training. The teachers are not supported by the administration. The administration is disorganized and does not follow through. It was a waste of time and money.
Submitted by parent on March 24, 2021

The teacher gives a lot of busy work, cross word puzzles, mazes etc. Then they wonder why this is boring for the kids. The teachers need to invest more in making the classes interesting and beneficial for the children.
Submitted by other on June 14, 2012

This school has a major bullying problem. While the small classrooms and direct attention may seem appealing, be aware that they do not take bullying seriously and will deny that there is an issue at the school. They will even go as far as to blame the victim of the bullying instead of trying to deal with the issue. - A concerned older sister.