Saint Clare of Assisi Church - Bronx (NY)

5 /5 Silvio Mazzella: I love this parish! The people are friendly and welcoming. The church is clean, comfortable, and well decorated. We are very fortunate to always have priests that work tirelessly for the community, are great leaders, great role models, and truly care about the people.

1 /5 Ana Montan: Parents have no voice, kids get asked not to talk about the graduation subject due to parents disagreement with principal. Is this a type of child abuse? Why are we paying a catholic school l? to be oppress?? The principal handles herself with a horrible demeanor and lack of education, displaying self consciousness and abuse of power in every action.

1 /5 verascott boo: Honestly, this school needs to be more aware of how much homework and quizzes they give. This school is honestly a joke. My child has been bombarded with so much work and studying she has changed so much. Sometimes she doesn’t come out of her room from the time she got home until the next day. The fact that my child hasnt learned anything and is just worried about her grades and not her social life. Ive heard teachers are being mean and very disrespectful toward students and the teachers are expecting the kids to have as much respect as possible. I heard that one of my childs teachers yelled at a student because a student didnt understand the lesson. Then another time a student was yelled at for trying to help out another student. My child had at least five assignments and two tests in one day. There are only a couple of teachers that are good and too good for this school. Half the things they teach wont even be needed in the future. What are these teachers and this school doing? Im very disappointed and do NOT recommend this school to ALL save you time and money. You pay over $1000 for one child a year and probably over $100 for fundraisers and sales within the school year and its not even worth it most of the time. For the Christmas shows they have the same outfits and equipment from years and years ago. Ive taken my child out of school a while ago and we moved away and it was the best thing for me and her. Compared to then and now she has learned a lot more.

1 /5 Marianna B: I graduated from St. Clares as well as my entire family. We all made all our sacraments here. Unfortunately over the years,  the mission and heart of this Parish diminished in a very negative and disturbing way. We have all since moved out of the bronx but still visit the Church on a weekly basis and donate cash in the baskets at Mass. I am Baptizing a newborn and was told that because I do not have a envelope number I would not be able to be provided a Sponsor Letter. I was told that even mailing 50 cents a week would constitute me as a practicing Catholic. I signed up on line for weekly donations so my name would be attached to the money so the Church could prove my donations. The secretaries are rude and had the audacity to get loud on the phone and hung up on me multiple times. Shouldnt they be a little nicer and respectful to the general public?? The hostility from these people has me baffled. My 3yr old son can recite the Our Father, Hail Mary, and 10 Commandments word for word. That makes me a practicing Catholic. Sharing my faith and teaching the Good Word to my child. Sending money doesnt make me or anyone else a practicing Catholic. Where in the Bible does it say we need to give money to be loved and saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. Yelling and hanging up the phone on people should not be tolerated by anyone especially personnel from the Church. Money doesnt define a Catholic. Your faith, your words, your actions, and how you live out your faith everyday does. Anne, my God knows I practice my Faith everyday and have past it along to my husband and son. May God forgive you for defining someones faith with a dollar sign and may he have mercy on your soul.

5 /5 Chris Algien: This is a very good Catholic School. The teachers engage with the children classrooms around 26 to 30 kids. They seem to give a lot of homework. But I dont mind because tuition is not cheap.