Aptos is great you just got to be respectful some teachers are very calm and they try to solve a problem in the calmest ways the most GOATED teachers must be the social studies teachers and the science teachers. But rn I hateee Spanish it's ass like we learning Japanese like wtf I was here for Spanish not Japanese. Another downside is they mix you up in different grade classes like in 6th grade I mixed up into advisory Spanish for seventh grade. Everything else is great and way much better lunches. If you have a younger kid take them to commodore sloat read more

Omg this middle school is so good I had ms.clay she is the best. But in the locker rooms, no privacy for showering? Bruh. But everything else was good read more

The Aptos of today is a great improvement upon the Aptos of several years ago thanks to better administration and interest in student well-being and sense of community. It's a highly diverse population of students and kids will have to learn to get along with one another. The school emphasizes specific values and attitudes that are a positive way to address this. Our experience has not been totally rosy; we had a specific incident at the school, but I think the administration was willing to discuss it and resolve it to the best of their ability. These kinds of interactions help to build trust that they do have the kids' best interests in mind. read more

this school feels like a jail, the teachers favor students and pick and choose who gets introuble the staff is rude and disrespectful as f**k they are sexist and leave every boys bathroom unlocked anytime of the day and keep the girls restroom on every floor locked singling the girls out from being able to use the restroom. The principal dosent want to handle anything himself and dismisses every situation. They also cheated parents and family's money from making a donation at the start of the 2024 school year for a 7th grade end of the year feild trip and raised a high amount of money from each students family's and never granted them a feild trip and never discussed why. read more

This school has been a headache they fell short and cheated my child out of once and a lifetime experience. Before she graduated I ask the principal why she did not make the honor roll list if her GPA was above a 3.0. He stated she didn't make it. Instead of doing his job and further investigating why my child's name was not included he went about his day. This lead to my daughter being left out of being called during their announcing of the honor roll students which bothers her still today. There has been issues with the teachers and staff prejudice practices. They are lazy and don't care enough. Prior to this my child has experience derogatory language used by latino kids using the N word, chinese kids who exclude her from group work at the table and teachers who don't care enough to speak to those racist kids and explain to them it's wrong to exclude students just because their not the same race. It's a bunch of other things , but lastly I would like to include a teacher by the name of Becker who use N**** during a history lesson my child spoke up and ask if she can replace that word with a less offensive term. Becker then told my child that it's not a bad word and it's like the place Niger. This school staff has yet to call and apologize or send my daughter her honor roll certificate for ruining her graduation moment. Think twice about sending your child here. And another incident is when a Science teacher who spent 99% of the time calling out the whole school year was allowed to grade students he didn't even get a chance to know and while the staff allowed him to distribute Ds and Fs just because he could and the issue was not taken care of. read more

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The principal dose not give a flying fuck about the school, the school is old asf and they spend money on bs instead of re painting the school or remodeling It, they give out random suspensions and act like assholes for no reason. Very very shitty school I don't recommend coming here read more

I passed 6th grade and it was awful. I had this Social Studies teacher named Mr. Kuo and he was the absolute worst. He kicked my backpack and was blaming me for writing on the playing cards that usually all periods use. My mom emailed him asking why would you do that and he made a complete new story about me touching girls inappropriately and even talking to them little too "playfully". If your child(ren) got Mr. Kuo, please be careful with his lies. He is extremely strict. Wish he got fired read more

I don't know why there are so many bad reviews but I personally had a good experience here. There have been some eh teachers but mostly they're fine. I have lots of friends and recently they added a second elective. I would recommend this school - kind of average but worked for me. read more

Aptos has been a great experience for my son - he has jumped into the athletics program, has been pushed in his classes, and has found some great friendships. Strongly recommend it! read more

I graduated from this school 4 years ago. The staff and teachers are extremely disrespectful to students during my years here. Back in sophomore year, I asked permission to get my project out from my locker from a teacher named Bautista. Leaving class to retrieve my project, I headed to my locker where I was berated by another teacher named Wolf who berated and yelled at me about how students aren't allowed to retrieve projects during class period times. Telling Wolf I had permission from Bautista, he would yell at me for twenty minutes; Cutting into his own class time just to yell at me till I cried. Ignoring that I had permission, this wasn't his first time. He would talk about his migraines when he didn't have his morning coffee. Picking on students regularly when he felt like it. Later walking me back to Bautista's class where I would get yelled at again by him. Bautista did not care and even ignored my cries for his help as I was berated over and over again. This school has a huge fight seen as well. Seeing fights very regularly, it seemed the staff would care more about the cameras recording than the actual fight itself. It seemed like there was at least one fight a week. The staff here treated students like live stock. Not letting students think or do anything unless asked for permission of. Although there may be many troubled kids here, not all students should be treated like this. Thank god there was Covid to cut my final year here. The bullies in this school were not the kids, it was the staff. PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE! read more

Teachers letting bullies go through backpacks, when kids step out of the classroom. However MS. JO said she didn't notice a backpack being looked through, when my child stepped out for the restroom. However when a teachers laptop & other materials go missing they take urgent care & consideration to find their materials. This school is coming to sewage. Not cool. read more

I'm a past student of AMS. I say this school would be like elementary school but a little more wild. The teachers are nice of course depending who you get most of them are nice and easy to get along with, if you want a high level education , well I won't recommend this school, I barely learn anything in math except to add positives before negatives , only thing I remember from mister.domecus ( eighth grade math teacher) , as he made things more confusing and teaching us basics from what we had learned in seventh grade for example how to add exponents and fractions and all that. In English, all I remember is doing do nows and worksheets , I mean I don't see how that will help, in science we learned stuff liek actual stuff not former forth grade work stuff. My fav would be ethnic studies , when mister.wildgrube (best teacher ever) would have us read chapters and actually write essays or even do anything that can help us academically. If your child needs support on math , I do not recommend this school, as the math teachers make things confusing, as former student I was the one helping my peers and doing their homework else they will throw tantrums at me and I have to do most of the group work. If your child needs support on English, I will ask you to refrain from this school. read more

I understand Mr Byrnes is now at Lincoln High School. Hope he is mote interested in teaching high school kids. He ran away but they would never have kept him on at Aptos. Luckily my daughter has a teacher that actually teaches English for English this year. She also has an amazing math teacher and her other teachers all obviously care about teaching and the kids. read more

In General.. My daughter is happy here. She has tons of friends, the teachers are very much involved and easy to get a hold of. My only gripe is the front desk. It seems as if no one is ever there.. I've called more than 10 times in the last day and have gotten no response. Unfortunately, this is the norm. read more

There's a phrase I've been dreading since I decided to have a child: "Public school in California." After a year of my daughter going to Aptos, I can say that my expectations have been exceeded and I'm thrilled and proud to have my daughter there -- which is double surprising because I also had the expectation that junior high is awful no matter where you go as well. The curriculum and the way they cover it seems impressive. The number of electives, clubs and opportunities available for the students to "find themselves" is amazing. Also, the afterschool program is the best she's attended -- and unlike all the others, it's completely free. Even the building -- classic and newly renovated, perched on the edge of a lovely park and right near the MUNI K line -- makes the prefab and trailer schools I remember from my youth a distant memory. And the communication -- between SchoolLoop and the PTSA mailing list -- is better than anything I've seen at any other school. Given what a big-city school could be like and how big Aptos is (almost 1000 students across 3 grades), I've never felt my daughter was anything but safe, happy and surrounded by smart, motivated kids (who can be spazzy because, hey, it's junior high). I feel like we won the school lottery when my daughter got into Aptos. read more

I sub here from time to time and the staff is very friendly! I've also worked with some of the students and they are all so sweet and welcoming! Of course, I am not always here so, I can not say too much about the academics. But I've interacted with a few of the teachers and they seem to be passionate about what they do. Which is crucial for their careers. read more

When I was going here as a student I was bullied almost every day. But I enjoyed hanging out with friends.

Aptos Park is the crown jewel of Ocean Avenue's renovation. The former labyrinth of trees, bushes, vines and weeds that spanned an entire block of Ocean Avenue has been bulldozed and replaced with a more appealing exterior. Ascend the Ocean Ave. steps and you are greeted with a gorgeous park with a softball field, modern jungle gym, tire swing, seesaw, tennis court, sandbox and jogging/walking track. There's space for kids to learn how to ride a bike and skateboard and play kickball. On a clear sunny day, you should be able to see the Pacific Ocean near home plate. There weren't any BBQ pits, but there's a couple of picnic tables between the field and playground. The decorative stonework is an aesthetically nice touch along with the scattered plants and trees. Great place to take Scooby for a walk. Kudos to the grounds crew that keeps the park graffiti free, debris free and Scooby poop free. If you run treadmill at 24 Nautilus on Ocean Ave., doing cardio at this park before hitting your weights would be a nice workout variation. On the sunny day I was there, I was treated to a team of dads teaching their 5-7 y.o. Little Rascals the craft of America's Favorite Pastime: Kid Russell: I'm team captain, and I choose yoooouuuu! Eager Erik: Okaaaay, but I got to tie my shooooeee. DADDDY!! Tory Tyke: Me two! I want to be on your team (hugging) Runny Ryan: Demograpes can't play baseball. Don't pick him. Defensive Dad: Throw to first base Johnny-boy, and don't hug Tory, he's not on your team Encouraging Dad: Way to go Woody! You can do it! Keep running, go for home son! Zealot Dad: Eyes on the ball Denny, don't flinch. Arms back, open your stance, swing hard. Don't cry. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Winners never quit, and quitters never win! Don't cry. Metro Dad: Eddie, don't pick your nose in public son. Tuck your shirt in, and don't slide home because you'll get your trousers dirty. A slice of Norman Rockwell Americana can be had here. read more

I want to give this school -100 stars. I went to this school about 4 years ago. 7th - 8th grade. I HATED IT. The teachers didn't teach me anything, the people there were just mean and there were fights all the time, the principal never really did anything. I hated how because of the dumb people, the K train always passed us, and when they didn't, we would fill up the busses and then the dumb people would start fights, push people for no reason, and hold the door open for no reason and piss everyone off who wanted to go home. (once a muni driver just drove even though the door was open) They didn't really try to help the kids, I mean ugh. I was SO HAPPY when I graduated and went to Bal! =) (which is 100000 times cooler than aptos) read more

I went to Aptos Middle School for 6th grade 2018-2019 school year. I was bullied and the councilors were very nice but the discipline was awful. They didn't know how to keep student safe. The 8th graders would throw basketballs at the tiny sixth graders including me. All the teacher would do was tell them to stop instead of getting in the middle of it. Another crazy thing was the bathrooms in the whole school were closed because kids kept peeing and pooping on the floor and in the hallways,how disgusting. The teacher give detention at lunch for 20 minute out of an hour or so of playing. So that kept the kids there for less than half of lunch and they were still allowed to talk to friends. That is just to crazy and the working environment was all group work that, there was almost no independent work in the school year. I hope you found this helpful. read more

I think all middle schools are bad in their own ways, kids here were really mean and cruel. Fights would constantly burst out during lunch or during passing periods and kids would flock in a circle and watch the fight. How ridiculous is that?The principal we had did not do ANYTHING...we had bitchy teachers that would rant on about politics rather than teaching us math or history. I remembered having a history teacher in the eighth grade that would talk trash about his former students and fellow co-workers...and i thought "um...how professional?..." Kids here a very cliquish...you could immediately see the race segregation in this school. Hated middle school very much... read more

It was a great school. Mr Atell in PE, Mr. Sholten in wood shop,Mr. Brogan in print shop, Mr. Cruz in English, Mr Nakagiri in science, and Mr Theodus in Math were all great teachers. The only down side was some of the local boys from the other side of Ocean ave. who would beat us up and take our lunch money. That experience did make me street wise which is important for me today....and I am sure those boys from that hood are either dead or in Prison so life is fair after all. read more

2012 was the first Mandarin Immersion Program for Apots. Ms. Lee does a great job.

I went there 1974-76. Scary place for a sheltered military brat to land. I did meet some nice people and my English teacher, Mr. Cruz, changed my life. If anyone knows how to get a hold of him, I'd love to thank him. Overall, some fantastic teachers working in a tough environment. Loved playing handball/basketball. All the bullies thought I knew kung fu and never picked on me. Funny how racism probably saved my life. read more