Design Tech High School (d.tech) is a fantastic non-traditional school with a lot of opportunities…read morefor students to explore. The flexibility built into their learning model allows students to take agency over their education in a customized setting. Students who take full advantage of this model do well after graduation. It may not be for everyone since it doesn't have the same standard offerings as a traditional high school. Their world-renowned robotics program has put d.tech on the map globally. We feel very fortunate to have d.tech in our community!

D-Tech is a great charter school for students and parents seeking an innovative approach to…read morelearning rather than a standardized school. Highly recommended to all families looking for a unique school like this.

As a 2006 alumn of Carlmont, I feel it is only appropriate to give my two cents about the place…read more Overall opinion: one of the best public high schools around. Mrs. Jenoff, the principal who I believed just retired, is responsible for bringing a lot of great things to Carlmont and giving students the opportunity to attend great universities. That's what I found so interesting about the place: you have students getting accepted to MIT, Harvard, and Stanford but also students dropping out and failing classes. Having said that, I think Carlmont is great for high achieving students who need advanced classes and teachers to challenge them, and great for under achieving students who need a less-than-average pace and teachers to slow it down for them. However, I believe that the average students in the regular classes were often forgotten. I know it can be difficult to teach to a wide range of learning abilities, which often happens in the regular-paced classes, but I think a better job could be done in this area. Besides academics, there are many sports teams to participate in, which was my main school-sponsored extracurricular activity. I know there is also a choir, band, theatre, and a very good dance program available. Not so sure how well "student run" organizations go. Regarding student body, Carlmont is extremely diverse. I remember hearing at least 4 different languages in the school hallways on any given day, yet social groups remained rather segregated. Students bused in from the surrounding areas did not often interact with students from Belmont or San Carlos nor the other way around. All in all, I think every type of student can find friends that are like them, classes that fit their needs, and activities they enjoy at Carlmont. It may not be a good fit for a student who needs a lot of attention, as the student body is large (around 500 per class I believe) so a student can easily feel unnoticed. Fights sometimes happened, but rarely. Drugs are also there, but completely avoidable if you have friends who also avoid them. I hope this review helps... I think Carlmont is only improving every year.

This HS is a joke. If you are AP or average then you'll do fine. If you are even 15% off the…read moreaverage they kick you to the curb. Especially Patner is the worst. He made my kiddo cry, I had to stop him. They didn't want to address anything for either of my kiddos and we had to hire an outside advocate. If you are considering moving to this area for the HS, don't.

School is great. My son loved attending it. Very clean, teachers were always helpful, great…read moreatmosphere all around. They have daycare on site as well for after school.

I went here for 8th grade and I attended fusion academy in Palo Alto in 9th grade and all…read morethroughout the rest of high school. I had an amazing experience with both Fusion Academy in San Mateo and Fusion Academy in Palo Alto, and I absolutely loved the cafe at Fusion Academy San Mateo with all the flowers and plants as well as the awesome teachers and Cassandra and Caroline who were two of the staff members! I would say my experience at San Mateo was better regarding the staff because the staff members at Fusion Academy Palo Alto would complain about me and wrote emails home about me being "creepy" to my parents just for avoiding other students, not even taking my autism level 1 and my mental illnesses into account as well as make a fuss about anything and everything I did as well as do nothing about one of the mean girls at Palo Alto. Fusion San Mateo didn't do any of that and I'm glad they didn't! I am giving them five stars for how awesome and amazing they are. Fusion Academy Palo Alto got four stars.

My son is a student at Futures Academy in San Mateo. We enrolled him right before SIP began. It has…read morebeen a great experience. His teachers and the school have been very responsive to his needs and he engages in his learning in a way that did not happen before. I highly recommend Futures Academy. We are glad we found it!

Should not give a rating at all! Was told that our kids would automatically assigned to Ralston…read moreMiddle unless requested for other middle school. Confirmed our kids would go to Ralston Middle but ended up another middle school. Do not confirmed if you cannot assigned to it!

I agreed with previous comments, should not give any star but no option. The front desk people n…read moreprincipal are so mean , I can't wait for my kid in their waiting room for no reason at all, even just for a short of time. It's cold outside during winter. Principal harassed me to leave like I were a beggar. They have chairs available maybe only for ghost. Hello I'm a US citizen and paying tax to facilitate the school.

So happy we picked this school for our daughter! The admission process was smooth and every time I…read morehad questions, they were addressed right away. Thank you Debbie Anderson! :) All the staff are friendly and the teachers are well educated, kind and engaging. School is all about empowering our young girls and helping them advocate for themselves - great life skills. The parents are wonderful and we have really been enjoying the social events at the school.

The teachers and staff were incredible in creating a curriculum when COVID hit. And they continue…read moreto be the bright spot of the school with their continuous support and care of the students. It's this personal connection that makes the education highly valuable for our daughter. As we wrapped up 2021 and come into 2022, we are seeing the renewed strength of the NDB community and look forward to seeing this continue to grow and thrive under the leadership of the new Head of School.

They do very little to support new staff and everything in their power to protect tenured teachers…read morethat have no place teaching/ have teaching practices that went extinct along side dinosaurs. Punitive teaching styles across the board and an admin that will listen to the tenured teachers regardless of how out of touch with reality they are. Students with behavioral issues are always assigned with newer teachers while the ones that have been there since the invention of electricity have the gate students or advance placement students. Very shady practices district wide and very little is done to protect lgbtqa students or any student that may be bullied. This would never be the school id chose for my child.

My Son has had a great middle school experience so far! He…read morestarted off having difficulties with a few peers, but now their all friends . The staff have been extremely helpful and supportive. His teachers have been wonderful.

We love this school so much. Wornick is an amazing community for the kids as well as the parents…read more The teachers and staff actually care about your kids - it is amazing! We are also really happy with the balance of academic rigor and focus on social/emotional learning. They are building the next leaders of the world seeped in good values. We could not be happier.

I too highly recommend this school. My child has been there since Kindergarten and we knew our son…read moreneeded some 1-1 attention and support for reading and comprehension and were concerned that if he didn't get it he would be left behind. I am so glad to say that each of his teachers has taken the time to get to know our son, understand his strength and weaknesses, frame up very relevant goals, and do everything they can to help him achieve them. He is doing quite well and keeping up. The other aspects that were astounding to me being from a public school experience was that they have the "Peace Path" that they use to teach the kids how to resolve conflicts with that goes beyond just saying sorry to taking ownership of their actions and listening to the other child to see how they can make them whole. This training begins in Kindergarten no less. On top of that they take time each morning to reflect on how they did the previous day and enjoy the wins and see how they can be better today. Heck I try do all of that as an adult!! The other reasons we chose Wornick is that they stand for the kids being international citizens, learn how to stand up in front of their peers and speak and persuade, and to learn how to learn not just memorize stuff for a test. Again all things I strive to do as an adult and they start in Kindergarten. I to suggest you visit and ask to talk to teachers, parents, staff, etc. and see what you think. Mr. King is an awesome Kindergarten teacher and we felt so lucky to have a male role model to start with. Adeelee Feldman really got into what Nikolas needed and helped him gain confidence in his strengths in first grade. We look forward to what Ms. Mahoney will bring in 2nd Grade. All the best!

We feel so lucky to have found Sea Breeze for our children's first school experience. Our two…read morechildren are genuinely excited to go to school each day and we know that has so much to do with the amazing staff and the environment here. What has amazed us is how much our son has learned and grown. He came into Sea Breeze with some speech delays, and watching his confidence and communication flourish has meant so much to us. We truly believe that the growth is a reflection of the patience and encouragement of the incredible teachers who show up for our children every day. We're so thankful that their love for learning has sprouted from such a young age and trust it will have a positive impact as they grow! As parents, trust doesn't come easy with who we feel comfortable watching our children, but they are truly in wonderful caring hands.

The 2 stars are for the teachers here who have treated both me and my daughter very well…read more However, the Director Jamie Briones and the Principal Jerelyn Weber are a different story. I signed up my daughter for after care through 4CS, which is a program that helps low income families afford child care services. I got a really negative vibe from Jamie right away. She had told me that 4CS was giving them extra payments beyond tuition that I asked her to use towards the $200/month they were charging me directly for transportation because they told me that it wasn't covered by 4CS. I kept asking Jamie to ask the 4CS payments coordinator if they could use those extra payments for my transportation costs, since that money was meant to help me with child care costs after all. Jamie then proceeded to outright lie to me (as I just found out yesterday, 6 months later). She told me she had not received a response from 4CS. I had to keep asking several times and she lied to me several times. I feel she was waiting for me to send a frustrated email so that she could show Jerelyn that I didn't deserve to get MY money back. After receiving that frustrated email from me, Jerelyn responded and told me I was being unprofessional and that they would not be returning MY money to me, instead they decided to use it for their scholarship fund. I went back and forth with Jerelyn until she sent me a screenshot that showed that Jamie had gotten a response back from 4CS saying that they could use that money 'however they liked' back in early February. So, Jamie lied to me for months and she would end those lying emails with 'have a lovely day! Warmly, Jamie'. So disgusting. I showed both of them proof yesterday that Jamie outright lied to me for months and I haven't heard anything back since then.

Great location, there's both the library , the park and the downtown within minutes walking…read moredistance. , A lot of kids walk home from here so it's a pretty safe area . They have a lot of great plays they put on here . They even have food trucks here at times. Glad the pandemics over because the kids don't have to wear masks anymore. I like to come here at times when the schools out and play basketball because there's so many courts to choose from and no one really around. The place is clean .

Having just read "Greg B"s review of Central School jogged my memory, and since bullying has become…read morea major focus of today's educational systems, I, too, feel my story ought to be shared. I also went to Central School. There was no 'middle' in the name then. We had just moved to San Carlos from Connecticut, and I had never seen such an old school building, with antique wooden desks from the 1920s. I went there from 5th through 8th grade. I was a dysfunctional kid from a dysfunctional family, who came with a terribly rotten academic history (this was before ADHD was discovered). I was so bad, they made me take 5th grade twice. But the second time around was almost enjoyable. This wonderful teacher, Madeline Rentz, occupied Room 8, and was my teacher for both tours of 5th grade. Mrs. Rentz had a light blue 1953 Plymouth Business Coupe, which she traded in for a brand new 1959 Ford Galaxie. As it would turn out later in my life, Mrs. Rentz was one of the foremost moving powers that shaped my life as an adult, and I will never be able to thank her enough for all she did for me. But the bullying was another matter. I was the tiniest, shyest, quietest kid in the school, and the older bullies knew it and used it to their advantage. Every day they would wait for me just off the school grounds to harass me as I walked home. Complaining did no good. The school said there wasn't anything they can do, once we were off the school grounds. My indifferent parents just said I must be doing something to annoy them. Both excuses were a crock of crap. I finally learned that if I just goofed off all day, Mrs. Rentz would make me stay after school to do my work that I didn't get done. I never left much before 4:30 and eventually the bullies gave up waiting for me. One time the school did something they could have gotten in deep trouble for. In 7th grade my brother had a science class with a horrid teacher named Mrs. Combs. She was tall, loud, very unattractive and when she held her arms up, everyone could see she never shaved under her arms. She was mean and feisty and every kid in the school was scared to death of her. She would tease and make wise cracks about individual kids, which didn't help her credibility any, either. Worse, she drove a solid bright red 1959 Chevrolet Impala 4-door hardtop, one of the ugliest cars ever made by Chevrolet, but it fit Mrs. Combs better than OJ's glove. One day my brother didn't answer some question to her satisfaction. After teasing him for a moment, he said something which caused her to explode. She grabbed him by his shirt, ripping off a few buttons, and sent him to the principal's office. I wasn't there and don't know what he said, but my brother got As and Bs and was never a discipline problem, so it had to be something Mrs. Combs imagined. I never thought she was carrying a full suitcase, anyway, and often wondered how a public school could ever hire someone like her. My 7th grade teacher was a young short-tempered man named Mr. Prata. He drove a rusty turquoise 1957 MG roadster. Being the lousy student I was, it didn't take him very long to despise me. He would shout from five classrooms down the hall, "Brassfield, shut up!" in reference to a girl who never stopped talking. He was also an eraser thrower. He called everybody by their last name, males and females, like some drill sergeant in the army. He and I never got along, and 7th grade was the worst grade I ever suffered through. In 8th grade I got a reprieve, in the form of a wonderful, fun little round guy named Mr. Darley, who drove a Woodland Green 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air. He had a sense of humor that wouldn't quit, and he always had everyone laughing. When something would go wrong, he'd pretend he was angry and gyrate around, causing a lock of hair to fall across one eye, then he'd brush it out of the way in indignation, while the class roared. 8th grade was the first time I'd ever received anything above a 'D' in school. Today, all these folks are long gone, but they will remain forever interred in my memories. Overall, Central School wasn't really such a bad place, despite a few hiccups no one ever caught.