My kids have been attending PVCP since 2nd grade and preschool. They are now 7th grade and 4th grade. When we transferred them in from a local Catholic school, my 2nd grader was behind the rest of the class in math and reading. I cannot say enough about how great 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Corbin, helped him with her strict but encouraging way that brought him up to speed and beyond by the second half of the year. She never made him feel badly for being behind, and she never made us worrying parents feel like there was any problem. He became the reader he is today, and the advanced math student he is enjoying as a middle schooler. Our 4th grader has had the past 5 years in a positive, encouraging, academically challenging atmosphere. If you have a kid who is going to fall in the middle of the pack academically, better to send him to a school like PVCP where the "middle" is set at a standard above any public school, and strives to help each kid reach his greatness.