HORRIBLE BATHROOMS everything about them are bad. but classrooms are clean teachers are okay but…read moreoverall great school

Have had 4 of my kids pass graduate from Ponderosa in the last decade. We have loved our…read moreexperience with the school, finding a great educational environment and a local community. All have played sports at Pondo and been involved in clubs and other groups which both strengthened their bond to their classmates and to the school. We found teachers and coaches to genuinely care about our kids and their friends. Most of the students live in less densely populated neighborhoods and correspondingly you'll see more pickups than BMWs in the parking lot each morning. We enjoyed the lower level of pretense that exists here versus the other choices down the hill and believe our kids benefitted from it.

My daughter loved it. Nice little country school.read more

With right children and right parents, no other school is like Waldorf. Absolutely the best…read moreinvestment if parents seek children's happiness.

We have been a member of this wonderful community for almost 3 years now. I've been asked many…read moretimes "why did we leave our public school (which is an amazing school) to come here"? There are many reasons why we made the change. The art and music programs, the fact that the children are free to be just that, children (tree climbing here is a must!) and this wonderful and giving community but if I had to give you the most important reason why we love Cedar Springs it's our amazing class teacher along with the other adults that teach my daughter. Not only can I say without hesitation that her teacher loves and cares for her but so do all of the other teachers that instruct her during her school day. Now it's not because my daughter is their favorite student but it's because that's how they feel about all of their students here. That's pretty special to be able to honestly claim that. So if you want more for your child than what you are receiving now I suggest scheduling a tour so that you can see for yourself the magic of Cedar Springs.

Rainbowland is such a wonderful place for children. My oldest daughter attended for two years and…read morewas well prepared for Kindergarten. My youngest has just started the program. Miss Cindy, who teaches the younger children, is a positive, happy, caring teacher. Miss Jeanie, who teaches the Junior Kindergartners, will melt your heart. Both teachers have been with Rainbowland for more than 10 years! Miss Sandy, the director, runs the place with love. The school is accredited which is very hard to find in this area. The Rainbowland community includes caring, involved parents which in turn includes happy, well-adjusted kids.

I have 2 Daughters that go to this school. Their teachers have been great and they have learned a…read morelot! All the staff I have met have been friendly and helpful. Mrs Morris, Mrs Pruitt and Mrs Thompson are great.

Silva Valley is awesome!!!! We moved to EDH in June so this is my girls first year at Siva Valley…read more The first day of school my daughters teacher paired her up with a girl that has been going to SVE so my daughter would know where everything was at. As a parent that works and you hear this from your daughter was awesome. SVE makes you feel welcome and have a great community to support the teachers and kids.

The best elementary school in the Sacramento area! We moved to El Dorado Hills from the Bay Area to…read moreget away from the school system. Being a mother with a child that has a severe learning disability, I'm extremely pleased with the academic support my child receives from the Silva Valley teachers, specialists, and administration. Makes a difference to have support from the principal. Very happy and will recommend this school to anyone moving to the area.

In my opinion a lot of these reviews are probably overdramatized & posted by angsty students. I…read moreleft this school in 2023-2024. I went here for about a year growing up against my volition and it honestly wasn't that bad, the school just caters to a specific niche. My individual experience could be skewed by the fact that each class & social scene is different and since this is a newer campus, the upper classes had far fewer students than the lower classes when I attended. This is the main deal: John Adams is a charter school that clearly caters & advertises itself as a more conservative "right-leaning" education. They don't publicly state that, but the notion is clearly there, it's basically a red-pill school. It doesn't have a public religious affiliation, but once you're in the school you'll hear through word of mouth about its background, that it's a Mormon organization. The founder is Mormon, and at higher levels most admin are Mormon; at the Lincoln campus (the original school), all the teachers were Mormon. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and religion is its own debate, but take of that what you will. The school's sentiment gets more value by the fact that in recent years there's been a lot of controversy around public school curriculum, and while some of those criticisms are valid, I'm not sure John Adams is the solution. A positive is the teachers. John Adams pays less than public schools, which means the teachers who work here are doing it out of passion and belief in the school's mission. Most of the teachers & admin genuinely care about the students and provide a solid education. Academically, the education is mostly the same as public school. The main difference is that more credits are required to graduate and there are extra classes, especially in junior/senior year, primarily focused on things like American history/government. One thing I didn't like (that some might) was the political skewing. In one class, our teacher directly told us the book we were using was written from a libertarian perspective and that's what we were being taught because "that's the ethos here." That bothered me because I wanted a more neutral education that showed both sides, but again, that's the school's niche. You either like it or you don't. It's a "free charter school," but you pay for uniforms and the parents are forced to either pay $200 or complete volunteer hours. So there's not really a free lunch here The social scene is what you'd expect: mostly White kids from Mormon/conservative families, plus students whose parents sent them here due to behavior issues or as a "troubled teen"-style alternative. There's also a sizeable Slavic population, mostly Russian/Ukrainian kids, likely due to the Orthodox community in the area. One of my main complaints is the lack of diversity. EDH is already a rich white Republican town, and this is a Mormon Republican school inside of it. I could count the number of black students in the entire school on one hand. Personally, I'd want my kids in public school for the American melting pot experience. That said, I did make real, likely lifelong friends here. The reviews mention drugs and bullying, but I personally didn't see much of that, and whatever exists is probably less than in public school. There's a strict no-phone policy with lockers. If you're caught, your phone is taken and your parents have to pick it up. This is probably a good thing for most people but I don't know. I feel like the right thing is teaching proper discipline with phones and then punishing those who abuse the freedom, not this hardcore approach which just encourages more hiding & breaking of the rules. In general I feel like the rules and discipline were unnecessarily strict. A common complaint with a lot of the upperclassmen was that admin treated them like little kids instead of young adults. Senior early leave required proof of employment even if you already had enough credits, which defeats the whole point of earning early dismissal in the first place. There's also some controversy around legality and ethics. The school has hired uncredentialed teachers without supervision, which I personally witnessed and is likely not legal. There was also a wave of teachers who quit due to disagreements with admin. I won't speculate too much, but teachers and management clearly don't always get along. As for pickup, I still work nearby and the car line regularly wraps around the entire business complex. I genuinely don't know how they haven't figured out a better system given how large the lot is. The best word to describe my time at John Adams is boring. Boring education, boring social scene, boring uniforms, boring decor. That can be a good thing because boring also meant no fights or chaos. but it's definitely not an exciting or diverse environment. I would send your kids here if you're Mormon, or if you want your kids in a conservative-leaning environment and you don't care about diversity.

this school and its staff are absolutely horrible. If you want your kids to be trained like…read moremilitary sergeants, this is your place. I was here for about two semesters, and in both i dealt with continuous harassment from an aid who was told to not speak to me, and she directly violated that multiple times. She has zero patience and somehow works with children with special needs and yells at them whenever they have episodes. One of the students she was an aid for even said that he hated her. All of the deans for the school are another reason why your children should not be here. They're all extremely rude, selfish, careless and flat out disrespectful to everybody. The dean of academics has a terrible temper and only talks about himself. Doesn't care about any of the students at the school. The school would have so much more potential if they just had better staff. Another major issue is how political these teachers are.I've sat in Latin class and listened to my teacher go on about abortions and how amazing Donald Trump is. I've also seen how religious these teachers are and I'm not against to anyone's religion, but the fact that they pressure people to be Christian or catholic is a bit much. The school is filled with Mormons, Christians, Catholics and Republican conservatives that will judge you if you are not any of those. All the teachers here are so incredibly strict, you get detentions for breathing the same air as your teachers, you get judged for having to use the restroom and if you go, one minute over there, precious, five minute time limit, you get lectured on how your education is more important than using the restroom. I wouldn't recommend this school at all, unless you want your kids to dread going to school, and never have anything to tell you about what they learned.

Came here with my daughters 4th grade class and it was such a great time a lot of history. What a…read morenice experience and they have the kids help out with a lot the of duties. And they make cornbread out of a Dutch oven which is pretty neat.

i came here in 4th grade and I really liked it the food was awesome especially taco night you would…read morebe really excited on taco night and the service was great there were a lot of like people to help us if we even needed it they made cornbread out of a dutch oven a really old oven which I found really cool we got to buy the own ingredients with the gold we found which I also found funEverything was great for certain and I recommend somebody else comes here

The best school around! Where kids and parents come first. But, I am biased. Goooooooooo…read moreBulldogs!