I moved here from Woodlake with hopes this was going to be a good school. I am dissatisfied and and…read moresaddened by my child's experience. She had a teacher who left on some sort of planned medical leave. The students have had a terrible disservice done to them. The school was NOT prepared when Mrs Robles left for her surgery. It is preposterous they used substitute after substitute after substitute for a majority of the year. Whoever orchestrated this idea should be fired. They should have been better prepared, making plans to have a permanent replacement take possession of the class the very next day. These children have had an unstable year, I always hear what children need is a stable environment. The uncertainty of substitute teacher roulette has been a colossal failure and detrimental to the education of all those students who have been forced endure this school year.

The school district's lack of leadership and lack of appreciation for its teachers and admin has…read morecaused an exodus of the most skilled and qualified teachers and admin over the last 2 years leaving this school and the District with huge holes that they can't fill and their test scores prove it.

The teachers in the VUSD are very good to put up with the level of B.S. that they do in order to…read morehelp the children of Visalia learn. The administration in this district is a joke! The district suffers from myopic thinking from the top down. When your administrators are more concerned with keeping their jobs than they are the product they turn out (educated children) there is a fundamental problem. If I were a parent in Visalia today I would send my children to private school. My deepest condolences to those of you raising children in Visalia who can't afford to do so.

5 stars now, not when I was actually IN high school. Boyfriends, cliques, no bandanna/halter top…read morepolicy, and superficial teachers aside, it was a great school. #1 The landscape. It's not something you really appreciate when you're going from class to class, but a lot of schools in Fresno/Clovis have a lot of cement. We had beautiful trees, hills, and lots of grass. #2 Silly ass lunch policies. I don't know how it is now, but when I would share stories with my husband he was always surprised that 9th-12th graders could go off for lunch. That small bit of 45 minute freedom was nice. #3 Our pep rallies. Again, when I was in school everybody went to the pep rallies. It was fun. #4 So, my husband went to one of our football games. Inevitability we lost, but that wasn't the point, he couldn't believe what the girls were wearing. As much as I bitched about our dress code, and that I couldn't wear halter tops (I still feel this way, I think it's silly that a back can't be shown) apparently we still have a little more revealing clothing than what my husband remembered when he went to school. #5 Pretty girls are bred here. I can't speak for the other high schools, but we had a very pretty class! Girls you'll realize this when you get out of Visalia, and boys you'll realize this when you leave too, but by this time it will be too late, because you would have already dumped your high school girlfriend. It's small enough that you know everybody in school, and big enough to decide what friends you want to associate yourself with. Stay away from the druggie, slutty ones kids!

They truly care about there students! I loved coming to…read moreGolden West High School as a student and all the staff is sweet like family.