We were a band playing here and it was horrible when we were trying to get the base drum ready it…read moreliterally broke off and the water was 2$ dollars when we just finished getting off a 2 hour bus ride and played our couple songs and took our pictures and everyone was so thirsty so everyone was gonna get a water and some of us didn't have enough money left (us thinking it was a dollar) we went in and found out it was 2$ and it stupid because candy was less money then water.

This school is amazing, Hughson schools definitely take their job seriously. My eldest daughter…read moreattended here and now my son whom is a senior, this school and their teachers are a real example of exemplary school and staff. Modesto City Schools should learn a thing or two from this district! Thank you Hughson in teaching my children not only scholastically but also teaching them to be an upstanding person. Hats off to this district and schools! Please don't ever change! Ms. Davis and staff you guys are phenomenal!

It's an okay school, but definitely not the best. It is said that this is the best middle school in…read moreModesto, but I wouldn't say that exactly. They provide laptops, but what they don't do is provide good teachers and exact safety. Most of the teachers will hand you an assignment that you are unfamiliar with and then expect you to do it without even teaching you. Then, the school isn't so safe. People bring drugs and vapes to school and peer pressure people into doing it. I can add more negative things about this school, but that is all I'm going to add. On the bright side, they provide laptops and aren't crazy strict.

My bus was late and it caused me to be late to school which caused me to be late to class which…read morecaused me to be late to the lecture which caused me to miss out on vital info regarding the unit. In the end though none of it was on the GODDAMN TEST SO IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAYS

Very dirty school, needs to teach their kids how to not act like thugs. I don't know if this is a…read morehigh school or the hood. And this was from only one day of school and a freshman football game. Kids smoking weed and fighting in the bathrooms and their football team is so dirty not even Clorox can clean them. If there was a 0 star I would've picked it. Don't take your kids here.

it was pretty cool i liked it there, a lot of opportunities and cool clubs I can't wait to see what…read moreelse there is.

This school is now located in Modesto. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE. There is a new principal at…read morevanguard and she unfairly targets children and lies to parents. If you try to advocate for your children be prepared for unfair bullying. This woman is on a power trip and wants you to kiss her ring. After meeting with the director of the Central Valley I walked away feeling great only to be knocked back down later that evening. Trust me, record ALL of your dealings with the principal because she will deny saying things and twist words. Be prepared to pay for therapy for all the mental anguish this woman will cause your children. With children dealing with an all time high of emotional issues this woman should surely consider a different career path. Hoping my review saves some parents heartache later.

PARENTS PLEASE READ THE FULL THING I PROMISE IT'S WORTH IT. I was a student at the shared campus of…read moreUCS and Vanguard for about 6 years and let me tell you right now you should NEVER send your kids here. This school, Vanguard, gave me more trauma then therapy can heal. I am writing this because of my experiences here during my 7th grade year. Eva Forest, Xavier Melendez, Carter something, and Melissa Welsch gave me an awful experience and I had to move schools. At first everything was fine, it was just me Eva, and Xavier. Xavier and I started "middle school dating" and it was going pretty good until the summer of 2023 when Eva had told me he never liked me in the first place and was too much of a coward to dump me. Keep in mind we're basically the weird kids in this school (name given by the other rude students at Vanguard) and it wasn't common for us to date, but when we did we were very into it. So when I found out he never liked me, the start of 7th grade I broke up with him. On discord, (where most of this happened) we got into a fight and he literally confessed he never liked me. I added him, our new friend Carter, Eva, and my older ADULT sister to the conversation because I felt like she matched our energy and would basically protect me from his bullying. Which she did a perfect job at might I add. I screenshotted every single time he berated me and put it on a group chat with my mother, and my sister. When I met Melissa she was very kind and quickly became my second best friend (First bff was Eva) so I added her to the discord group chat of the friend group. EVENTUALLY she started dating my ex, Xavier, red flag number one, and would hardly stand up for me in the group chat or anytime else when he would try and berate me. I was sick of it. One day I mistakenly wrote a letter saying I like Carter and not to show it to anyone, he showed it to XAVIER and Xavier showed it to Melissa. I knew something was off when I came into school the next morning and found Melissa crying, I ran up to her and asked what's wrong and she literally would not talk to me. At all. So I was very confused until Carter said "I showed Xavier for advice since he's dated you and I guess he showed Melissa" What I wrote was very simple but yet I could see how it could hurt someone. I wrote "the other friends mean nothing to me without you." Because there were times when I wanted to leave the friend group because of how they treated me and he talked me out of it. (I forgot to mention that Eva got GROUNDED for a LONG while and moved schools for some reason. I also forgot that they had 'kicked me out of the friend group' MULTIPLE TIMES, which is important later on) I did end up convincing Melissa it meant nothing and we made up like nothing happened. FLASH FORWARD to October, I was getting ready to have my birthday party at a roller rink because I had recently taken up liking it. So I invited all of my friends of course and they all agreed to come, the Tuesday before the party I was told by one of my friends who was also in the group, Gianna (she didn't have a phone or anything but she is a real sweetheart and I miss her more than anything) she came up to me and told me "The others are planning to kick you out of the friend group on your birthday party." And I freaked OUT. I had ENOUGH. I cursed them all out flipped them the bird and called my mother who was WELL aware of what was going on. I went home early and took three and a half weeks off school. During those three weeks Eva got her phone back and texted me on TikTok saying Melissa called her SOBBING because she said to me her grandfather had passed away and I said "At least I have a grandpa" WHICH NEVER HAPPENED AND IS NOW A RUNNING JOKE IN MY HOUSE. So I obviously denied it and ended up blocking her too. Also during those three weeks my mother texted the parents of all of those kids and explained what was going on and how I was in and out of the hospital for wanting to kill myself because I thought I was the problem. Now Carter's mom is an actual sweetheart and I love her so so so so so so so much. She GROUNDED Carter and made him write me a letter explaining how sorry he was and he was caught up in the drama and didn't know what side to pick. Carter used to be a really sweet kid before EVERYTHING that went down. I never went back there and went to Norman Glick Middle School and it is so much better. Plus the food isn't moldy and there aren't literal rats. So moral of the story is, don't send your kid to this school unless you're prepared for them to be in the hospital and pay for therapy because I'm still not over it. We went to the principal about it when it started because they said they have a no bullying policy, but when we talked about it with the principal and literally showed the screenshots of practical cyber bullying, they SHRUGGED THEIR SHOULDERS.