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Huntington Learning Center

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LAST UPDATED: March 20th, 2024

For close to 40 years, Huntington Learning Center has been working to help students achieve academic success. They have curated their own unique method to help their students. Huntington Learning Center is an accredited institution with certified tutors for students. However, accreditation and unique methods aren't always enough to compete with our high standards for tutoring companies. We recommend Huntington Learning Center for students looking for in-person tutoring, but if you want any additional features, we recommend looking at other top tutoring companies.

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The Good

  • In-person tutoring
  • Certified tutors

In-person Tutoring

Since Huntington Learning Center has brick-and-mortar stores, students are able to meet with tutors in person. This can be beneficial for students who want a more personal lesson instead of just an online experience. This sets Huntington Learning Center apart from other tutoring platforms available. We like that students have the option to meet in person if they are located near a center.

Certified Tutors

Huntington Learning Center provides certified teachers for their students. All of their teachers are certified by the same organization that the local schools are accredited by. Huntington Learning Center holds all of teachers to the highest standard to ensure their students' success. Not all tutoring platforms have certified teachers, so we like that it sets Huntington Learning Center apart.
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The Bad

  • Unclear pricing
  • No chat, video, whiteboard, file sharing
  • Limited subjects

Unclear Pricing

Huntington Learning Center does not give any information regarding their pricing for tutoring services. We think it is important to see some information about prices so those interested get have a better idea of what tutoring costs at Huntington Learning Center.

Limited Resources

Since Huntington Learning Center is a brick and mortar platform, they do not have online option for students. An online presences allows students to study at their own convenience and in their own home. We believe students are missing out on the ability to converse with tutors and even other students with an online option. Many other tutoring platforms offer chat features with tutors and a learning space to collaborate with other students. We'd like to see Huntington Learning platform make some of these online advances.

Limited Subjects

While Huntington Learning Center offers the basic subjects, they lack other additional subjects that many of the top platforms offer. Huntington Learning Center could benefit from adding other subjects and expand their student cliental.
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The Bottom Line

Huntington Learning Center offers one-on-one tutoring for students K-12. They have certified teachers helping students achieve academic success. While Huntington Learning Center offers great tutoring, we had too many concerns to look past. Since their pricing is unclear, we can only assume that tutoring with them can get pricey. We also didn't like that they have no online presence for students to continue to learn from home. Overall, we believe other top recommended companies would be a better fit for students.
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C. Phillips

We sent our two elementary-aged students to Huntington in Johns Creek, Georgia. We used the location off of Medlock Bridge Road. Pros: It was very easy to sign up. My daughters liked all of the teachers. The location sponsored many events at their elementary school, so they would see the staff at their school on occasion. There was some academic benefit. Cons: The promises the salesperson made at the corporate level were not what was delivered at the local franchise. My daughters are great students, and Huntington was for enrichment with a focus on writing skills. I didn’t see any improvement in that area for the 3 to 4 months we were there. The plan was that they would use Huntington during the summer and focus on writing and spelling. Hours Used I paid for the services upfront so that I could get a minor discount. I was never sure how many hours were used and what was left. When I would meet with them to discuss the hours, I was never clear. My husband and I arrived for a scheduled check-point on their progress, and they tried to cancel the meeting once we arrived at the site. Scheduling The scheduling process is terrible if you are a busy family. There is no computer application for scheduling. If I needed to change an appointment, I have to send an email and wait for a response. The phone was not answered often. I was very disappointed, considering how much money we spent and being very clear about the things I wanted them to focus on. They would come home and state that they were working on subjects that were not the focus. I scheduled a close-out meeting to get an update on their status and cancel the services, and no one showed up for the virtual call. I ended up hiring a tutor from another company. There are many options in our area for academic enrichment and support. I suggest researching other options, and if you use Huntington DO NOT pay them upfront. We have used several other learning centers over the years. We had the worst experience with Huntington from an administrative perspective.

9 months ago Edited June 14, 2023

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Allison Mooney Bay Shore, NY

Honestly, when I started here I kinda enjoyed it. I loved working with the kids. I still do for the most part. There are some that melt my heart. However, this management of my location is absolutely bonkers. Unorganized, paranoid and secretive. They want everything to appear alright, peachy and organized for the parents but they just do not have it together. The main director of my location I don't believes sleeps, because you will hear from her at every hour of the day. The schedule goes out Thursday anytime from 12 am - 5am. She would text me all the time changing my schedule, changing it back, asking if I can stay longer this week. The amount of times that I was "asked" to stay longer than I was supposed to either because someone of else was even scheduled when they should have been or called out is out of this world. On top of that, I've been scheduled for the wrong times, out of my availability and given the wrong information before and they didn't even apologize for wasting my time. They said "well you can go get a cup of coffee and come back". They are stingy with pay as well. When I started, you would only be paid for the hours you were working with students (including a break between two students). They do not pay you for the time that you get there early, even if they schedule you 15 minutes early, and they do not pay you for the time that you are cleaning up and disinfecting afterwards. Now, they tend to me for about 15 minutes of extra time if I stay for a total of 30 minutes extra during a week. They also had a tendency of scheduling you with students who need help in a certain topic/area that you have already discussed previously with them that you know NOTHING about. Which makes it incredibly difficult to help tutor a student when you are trying to learn it for the first time as well. Huntington is also out of date. The materials are old and overused and not particularly helpful, especially for older students. We are also missing half of the books that the program calls for. This jobs is filled with so much red tape. You've go to follow their program, you can't differentiate for different students without the the director saying that's what needs to be done. You can't change curriculum material. The director and day-to-day manager are always watching over your shoulder. The day-to-day manager is always interfering in lessons that I have with students. Students who are easily distracted should not have someone keep going back up to them and distracting them more with questions that do not pertain to anything I'm teaching them. It makes it incredibly hard to gain back their focus over and over again. He also seemed to struggled to let them be kids. This might be a personal thing to me, but I believe that in order to get kids to be as focused and comfortable as they can, as long as their doing the work I need them to, they can kinda sit, stand or do whatever makes them comfortable. On multiple occasions, though, I've had him interrupt my lessons to walk to a student and say "sit down" or something else that really isn't important enough. They are also incredibly secretive with material and practices at the center. For instance, every session with a student we are supposed to write up session notes. These are in the program and generally, the director is supposed to read them but I don't know if she really does. I had a parent request to see my notes once after I brought them up in conversation with her. I thought that was a perfectly reasonable request. It's her child. She's paying a lot of money for this service. She should see my notes. I was told that that was not possible and that the director "had spoke with [this parent] before about this" and would "need to have a conversation with her again". Which is a little ridiculous. Likewise, they don't trust their employees. On Sundays, its just the employees. No director, although she hasn't been in the center consistently for the last 6 months, and no day-to- day manager. One day she text me saying "where are you. I see [another teacher] in the little room but where are you?" Meanwhile, I was in the office which does not have a camera because I did not have a student at that time. She was apparently watching us from the cameras in the main room and didn't trust us enough to make sure we were there, even though both me and the other employee there that day have been longtime employees working basically every Sunday for the last 5 months together.

1 year ago