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Great Hearts Academies

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Great Hearts Academies reviews

3.4

51% would recommend to a friend

(496 total reviews)
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Jay Heiler

69% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Great Hearts Academies has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 496 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Great Hearts Academies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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496 reviews
1.0
Feb 20, 2025

Worst Employer in AZ

Anonymous employee
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Pros

none- this company should shut down

Cons

the head of HR is the worst I've ever observed, witnessed or experienced - she is definitely memorable

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Great Hearts Academies Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your concerns regarding HR. Great Hearts yearns to provide a positive working environment for all of our employees and we are disappointed to learn that you have not experienced that within your AZ home office role. Please know that your comments are valued and reviewed to help us ever improve in this very human endeavor. Please send your concerns directly to us at: hr@greatheartsaz.org and we will review to determine what can be done to improve.
4.0
Feb 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive Pay. Decent Benefits. Intentional Mission

Cons

Charter Schools are underfunded and so have a lot of pressure to compromise in order to keep up enrollment.

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Great Hearts Academies Response
1y
Thank you for your candid feedback. We believe our curriculum provides the best liberal arts classical education focused on character education and great books. Our compensation package has been an area that we have been working to improve. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. As of the 2024-2025 school year, we have increased the salaries of our current and new teachers. We will look at our benefits package to look for areas to continue to improve. We will continue to work to improve salaries again for the 2025-2026 school year. We know with the rising cost of living, it is important that we make sure our teachers get the very best. We have recently updated our salary schedules again for the incoming 2025-2026 school year to improve the compensation package for our teachers.
3.0
Feb 19, 2025
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Pros

Your fellow teachers will be incredible human beings, and the Classical curriculum is overall edifying. The children are generally more well-behaved than average (because of this demographic). However, there is a lot of turnover, at least at this location, due to unstable leadership and low or mediocre pay.

Cons

Unstable leadership, high turnover rate, low pay

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Great Hearts Academies Response
1y
Thank you for your feedback. We believe the best for our students includes having the best faculty working with our students and parents. We believe our curriculum provides the best liberal arts classical education focused on character education and great books. We have worked to improve our salary schedules across our networks. Thanks for your constructive feedback regarding our school leadership. We acknowledge that there are always areas of improvement for Great Hearts, including retention and recruitment of experienced and highly competent administrators. As with any school leadership role, the leadership competencies at Great Hearts are broad in scope, and in addition, we value leaders who bring the classical liberal arts vision to bear on the culture and community. That broad scope is challenging for any one person to balance, but the network invests fully in leadership development and also utilizes faculty and family surveys to help leaders develop a greater awareness for the areas of growth.
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