Principal Ms. Newby is not approachable and appears to be hostile. Considering sending my students to another school.

Awesome School! I love East Arbor! My child loves going to school everyday and the teachers are amazing. I highly recommend East Arbor if you desire a wonderful culture and great education for your child.

East Arbor is a great school!! I am a mother of two students attending East Arbor and my kids are being challenged academically and socially, to be the best they can be. The staff are always pleasant, easy to talk to as well as very accessible. The new principal is engaging, always visible and all the kids know exactly who she is. This school is a family environment and I encourage any parent who's looking for a well-rounded school for their child, to come and check out East Arbor Academy!!

East Arbor Fan The teachers are friendly and my daughter enjoys going to school. My first teachers conference the teacher spent a lot of time with us explaining her concern. Now we are working together to keep my daughter on track.

Was a great school, but going downhill fast. Don't get me wrong, there are some excellent teachers at this school!! If I could rate the teachers my kids have contact with and the leadership individually, there would be some that would have 5-stars (such as the gym teacher, music teacher, library teacher), a lot of 4-stars, but there would be too many that would be 1-star (such as the new Principal, technology teacher, intervention specialist, special ed teacher). The "new" principal (was the old middle school dean) is unapproachable, rude, and will talk negatively about specific students in front of other parents (privacy violation), some teachers don't think twice about disclosing personal information about other students disabilities/medical/behavioral issues to other parents (privacy violation), the secretaries are most always grumpy and rude if they aren't busy gossiping about specific students (privacy violation) or parents that dared to ask them a question, and if you think that NHA's corporate office in Grand Rapids actually cares then you are wrong (I've talked to their parent relations, so if they truly cared then it would show). Staffing: If you have a child that is "at-risk" or low-performing on the NWEA or MAP tests, don't expect to have your child receive extra support from the Intervention Specialist... this school is too cheap to pay a substitute teacher, so they use the interventions teacher as a building sub. Only if there are several teachers out do they actually bring in a qualified sub to work. To every staff member in the building: If you don't LOVE your job, please LEAVE!! You expect every child and parent to follow your moral focus virtues, yet you don't provide a positive example. If you can't be compassionate, approachable, or understanding, then find another job. It's people that don't love what they do, don't respect the people they work with, and don't respect the parents or students that are bringing this school down and chasing good families out the door. The first 2 years that the school was open I would have given East Arbor a 5-star rating and wouldn't have a single negative thing to say. In the years following my rating in now a 2-star. I was hoping that with a new principal things would get better, but she has actually made things worse. NHA really should've hired someone from outside East Arbor. Unfortunately we live in (and East Arbor is right next to) a poor-performing public school district and right now it is the "lesser of 2 evils". Usually I'm sad when the school year is ending but I'm already counting down the days.