Power and Grace Preparatory Academy

This is our sons second year as a PGPA student. We appreciate the teachers seeing his full potential and pushing him to his limits. And the nurturing caring spirit of the staff.

My daughter started with the school in the Pre-K3 program and is currently in the 4th grade. Over the years she has learned and retained so much information and it is all due to the quality of instruction and programming that is utilized by the school. The teachers are top notch and they are like family. They care for our kids as though they are one of their own. The students here are leaps and bounds past their peers who attended public school. Highly recommend a personal visit to see for yourself. Your child(ren) will love it!

My daughter has been attending PGPA for 5 years now and I can truly say she grown tremendously. PGPA provides an excellent educational experience with God’s word leading the way. I love everything PGPA has to offer from the exceptional leadership, experienced teachers and loving staff they have all been a Blessing to us. PGPA is the best Christian school in Tennessee.

Paid $175 for our son to be screened and take a tour. We went through the screening and tour and were accepted into the school with a formal letter and were told to call back the next day to speak with the Principal. We called and emailed and were ignored. Still haven't heard from the school (obviously we had to rush to find our son another prek because its almost September). Seemed very unorganized , although the website and school values seem to speak to structure and order.

We loved this school when our child attended as a preschooler, but we've been extremely dissappointed in his kindergarten experience and how we were treated when we made the decision to leave.Our son started complaining daily about being stuck in a chair. We started investigating and talking to other parents who were there or had left and they all said the same thing. Their children were complaining constantly of being stuck in a chair all day, and recess being cancelled several times a week.Many times our son said he had recess but they weren't allowed to leave the sidewalk. One time our son told us that they didn't get to go to recess because another kid took too long in the bathroom. I thought he must've been misunderstanding or explaining the situation until I talked to another parent whose son was in their class and he said the same thing to her. It is actually Tennessee state law that K-5th grade students are required to get at LEAST 45 minutes of unstructured play (recess...NOT P.E.) daily. Research has shown for years that children NEED that Freeplay for proper development in school. After much though, discussion, and several other issues we have with the school we decided it just wasn't the best option for our children. We planned on talking to Mrs. Stallworth first but left several messages with the secretary and tried to get ahold of her for two weeks.When we decided to move forward with switching schools she called my husband stating she was "appalled" and asked why we were leaving. When he explained to her our reasons she got angry and then hung up on him Thirty minutes later she had a different administrative worker call ME at work and try to ask me why. She told me quote, "No one can love your children like we do" which is both manipulative and unrpofessional. I informed her that 1) If she had questions she could call my husband back 2) I don't appreciate the manipulation and passive aggressive attitude by calling me and pretending she didn't hang up on my husband 3) While we initially had some reservations they had certainly erased all reservations we had about leaving. 4) These are my children and it's my money, so we will do with it what we please. After that Mrs Stallworth sent an email apologizing but also claiming she didn't hang up on my husband. The email was written so poorly, as if she'd talked into her phone, with bad grammar and sentence structure that we could hardly understand a few of the sentences. Pretty unnerving coming from a principal in education. Our oldest son started telling us after that that he was being treated differently by the staff and came home crying about it several times...in preparation for the new school they requested our children's records, and she denied them saying her "policy" was not to send records until the school year was over. This is not a normal practice at all, no where in her paperwork or website does it state such a policy, we know other parents who she gave records immediately, and the records are actually legally ours not the schools. We didn't fuss and waited. Requested them again at the end of year and we're told 1 week. The new school then requested them again and we're told 2 days. And finally we requested a 4th time over a month after school was out. We were told one day and heard nothing. So finally I let them know we would be contacting our lawyer if the records were not produced. She then called me, threatened to call her lawyer of I called the school again, and slammed the phone on me. She obviously doesn't know much about the law and the fact I have every legal right to call (I was always polite, never yelled, or cussed, and stating you're contacting a lawyer is not a threat 😂 it's a legal right.) Our lawyer was literally scheduled to call the next day and she finally produced the records the next day. The teachers at this school were always very kind and loving from what we could tell, but Mrs. Stallworth is the most unprofessional and disrespectful education worker we've ever met.

Like most people in the Clarksville area, we have no family here so it is extremely scary to leave your child with "strangers." After only 3 days, I am crying happy tears because I can finally breathe. Everyone is so friendly, welcoming, and professional. I LOVE this place and the efforts they make to keep the babies safe, teach them about God, educate, and uplift. My son is so excited to go to school each morning!