I absolutely love this daycare! The directors do an incredible job of building a curriculum that is…read morespecially designed for each of their classrooms. All of the teachers are warm and caring. They are very mindful which classroom each child is in depending on their developmental milestones. They will move them up when the child is ready and always are willing to have a conversation about it if a parent feels differently about anything. They are amazing at keeping up with healthcare recommendations, especially enforcing vaccination, which I greatly appreciate in this era. They are very transparent about any infectious outbreaks that are happening so that parents are aware for each individual classroom to be on the lookout for symptoms in their own child. They use dojo to communicate so that we can see pictures and videos of all of the great learning and fun that our children are having as well as to send messages to the parents. They celebrate all of the national and international holidays, which makes this daycare, especially culturally inclusive. I love the diversity of the teachers and the children, building a wonderful social foundation for my children to experience while they have been here from three months all the way through five years of age.

We've been part of SEA since our son started in the Sea Turtles class, and what a journey it's…read morebeen! As nervous parents dealing with COVID fears and food allergies, we were so worried at first. But the staff promised us everything would be okay, and they were totally right. This place is special because: - The teachers genuinely love what they do and it shows - Our son learned to read and write in TK Sharks (we were so impressed!) - They handled his allergies perfectly, giving us such peace of mind - He was SO ready for kindergarten thanks to them Walking in every morning and being greeted by Ms. Taylor, Ms. Christine, and Ms. Theresa at the front desk just starts the day right. And the teachers throughout the years, Ms. Dianne, Ms. Ginger, Ms. Tammy, Ms. Barbie, Ms. Erin, Ms. Madi, Ms. Christy, Mr. Nick, Ms. Carmen, Ms. Julie, Ms. Paige, Ms. Suko, Ms. Priscilla, and Ms. Parvin have all been incredible. Each one has touched our hearts and made such a difference in our son's life. After all these years, SEA feels like home. Our son loved it, we loved it, and we're so grateful we found this wonderful, caring place. If you want your child to be loved and nurtured while learning and growing, this is the place!

Wonderful school! The best elementary school, in my opinion, that you can find in CA…read more The staff is very nice, good learning enviroment.

Some of the teachers at this school aren't the greatest. They are understaffed during recess and I…read morewitness many kids running at high speeds on the concrete without anyone stepping in. I witness one kid running at full speed and tackling another girl that was running before him at full speed also. Than after that I witness another kid running so fast he fell. He than got up and did the same thing over again. Classes are also packed here compared to other schools, so although its a known as a great school, when classes are packed with children, there's not much individual time for every student.

My niece is a Lion at Jonas Salk and I'm one proud aunt! Last Friday she invited me to join her at…read morea school festival. I was really impressed at how organized the event was! They had food trucks selling shaved ice and snow cones, arts and crafts, food and snacks, games, a DJ, and live performances by their lion dance team, hula dancers, and martial arts team. I was amazed by how talented the students were. I've seen a lot of professional lion dancers and the performances by these kids were comparable! They did such an excellent job! The school did a wonderful job planning this event, but their greatness doesn't end here. According to my niece, all of her teachers have been awesome! She actually looks forward to coming to school and is sad when it's summer or winter break because she misses her teachers and classmates. The school has a strong academic program and is one of San Diego's best! Lion pride shines bright at Jonas Salk!

I was google and searching for the best rated Elementary School in the Mira Mesa Community area and…read moreBOOM!! Jonas Salk Elementary School. My first impression at this school is Clean, New very Open and has lots of activity which every children would love. And now the Best, Jonas Salk has the Best staff members from the Principal to all the Teachers and Office Members. They all doing a wonderful job. I write this review with 5 star is because my daughter just finished her Kindergarten today and she even has a PAW Rewards that tell how good the staff are specially when my daughter has never attended any preschool before joining Jonas Salk. Thank you so much Ms. Casiano and Ms. Villena for being a wonderful teacher to my daughter JAC and hope everyone enjoy a fabulous Summer.

The school is good, just not GREAT. Very average, good and bad staff, not much bullies…read more The only thing i'd change is my humanities teacher. He's very rude and cranky often to me. He's like nice 20% of the time i'd say. Then again, there's also very nice teachers so it balances out. Yes, they do ask for a LOT of money from parents, i'll agree, which is pretty extensive, but i don't see anything that staff does with the money to help the school. My experience is okay, if anything its just me that makes it a problem with what i go through, but its an alright school just nothing special about it (as they say) The teachers also enter you in a lot of unnecessary projects that are boring and just bad extra work. Most teachers do give pretty good help on homework or struggles. Tests aren't too hard or unreasonable. Average teaching. They use A LOT of visuals to help with concepts. The kids are pretty snobby, and they do kinda show off about their money and privileges sometimes.

Please dont send your kids here. I went through all grades in this hellhole and it is worse than…read moreyou think it is. Teachers are reckless, same with case managers, and admins are full of shit. They beg for your money for fundraisers in which you never see that money again. Do the Monterey Ridge to OVMS to DNHS route instead.

My son loves this school! We had Krogstad, Gage, Braidic,…read morePlace and Finnegan. It's been an amazing experience every year. Principle Lee is really involved and everyone works really hard to give each kid individualized care when needed. Thank you to the whole school!

Hage Elementary is an awesome school. I can't compare to other local elementary schools since this…read moreis where all 3 of my kids attended. Of course even more biased because I have been on the PTA here for the last 10 years. Gotta put a plug in for the PTA....but they work hard to make sure our staff and kids get 100% support! Mr. T set high standards for this school and with our new principal Mr. Lee he has even set the bar higher. They have both done an extremely awesome job with the school. We have a lot of activities that we do for the kids from our money making Fall Festival, Spring Jog-a-thon, Family Movie Nights, Family Dance, etc. Casa Mira View across the street is a tremendous assistant financially to our school. Perfect place to live so the kids can walk right across the street. Our PTA supports an awesome art program through Art Corps. This allows the kids to learn 8 fantastic art lessons which we then present at the end of the year at our Art Show. With the support of our PE program headed by Mr. Kaneko the PE also helps fund our Swim Program. Grades 3-5 take part in a twice a week swim program for 6-8 weeks in the Spring. Our 5th graders get a one week full of fun before their promotion in June that 2 of my 3 have the pleasure of enjoying. I can go on and on about the school....message me if you ever have any questions. I also work at this school is a special education assistant, because I love this school so much =)

Our family has been at Jefferson for three years, and we've had a wonderful experience. Our kids…read moreare genuinely excited about what they're learning and come home talking about projects, books, art, dance, and garden time. The teachers are warm, respectful, and motivating. They care about students as whole people and do a great job supporting both academic growth and social-emotional development. The campus feels safe, inclusive, and well-run. We've also felt truly welcomed as a family. Communication is strong, and there are lots of ways to be involved. Jefferson has a real sense of community, and we feel lucky to be part of it.

I go to this school and we are learning math that some other people don't know. We also are…read morelearning in the easy way. I love this school and everybody there is very nice. My mom and dad love the school and all my friends and their parents do too. We have very fun events like the halloween parade and the field day. It is exciting and i have learned a lot. Please go to this school you would love it!

This school, KUMEYAAY ELEMENTARY, in Tierrasanta, IS the WORSE ever…read more I've lived in San Diego for almost 20 years: never seen anything like this piece of work! What a pity, when we moved to beautiful Tierrasanta (which we LOVE), my family got stuck with this excuse for a learning establishment. BTW: my children attended elementary school in Clairemont, and it was a 'shining star' of a school, compared to Kumeyaay. They have hundreds of rules, OMG ( ! ) I don't have alot of time to go into details (there are many more) but the primary two are: #1. RAISE MONEY $$$, constantly! Yep, this large school, in (above San Diego-average) wealthy Tierrasanta, Thier motto seems to be: COME UP WITH NEW (and IMPLEMENT immediately) WAYS TO RAISE MONEY. Constantly. Weekly. ...including asking young school children to call parents with 'cute' messages of, basically, please HELP US with money.... so a new (MONEY-raising) EVENT, every week or so, is par for the course, and still another message (along with a thick RULES book) to the students: "NO HAVING FUN!" (unless you mean FUNd-Raising). Ha Ha. Ahhhh Arggg! (I can't help but start humming, if not singing, the P. Floyd standard, "Another Brick in the Wall," whenever I have to go on their campus :) #2. AND, especially, "NO HAVING FUN around HOLIDAYS" Here's the jist: unlike before-praised, Clairemont (and most other elementary schools), they don't do holidays, here. Well, barely! Two examples (a) Halloween (no Carnival, nothing), they let the kids "parade around" in NON'scary" costumes/NO MASKS" and "no costume shoes" early first thing in the morn, only, and then take EVERYthing off -- before school started. NO carnival, Nothing. (b) Christmas (oops: "winter season- days-before that 25th thing/deal): Nothing. Unlike Clairemont school, who had a dance/play/etc., before un-nameable holiday, I did not see an flyer, receive any communque (my son had nothing to report from the first 2 weeks of Dec...no activity; no event, NOTHING. "Celebrating ANYthing (oh whoops: except if MORE $$ is involved --- please see # 1,above) ist Verboten at Kumeyaay Elementary !!" P.s. I wrote the above review, late last December, after that, y'know, one-day holiday-thingie, but now that I've posted it, let the fun begin. Let the Coyotes howl: P.s.s: "Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be,.." -MARVIN COHEN

This school is amazing! They have so many extra classes for the children. Art/music/Spanish/…read morescience. We choiced our child into this school from a nearby neighborhood and it's the best choice we have made!

My 5 year old is very hyper, always stimulated and had a hard time focusing the beginning of his…read morefirst year of school year. Though they kept telling me he's still a baby and his behavior will change, I was also told they don't have the staff and correct skills for himto basically succeeded there and they suggested I transfer him to a school where there is a classroom with less students and more staff to help give him the support he needs. Since we have transferred him to Park Village and seen great improvement. As for Morning Creek, our experience has been less than great. I don't feel like my son was given the chance to enjoy his home school. I don't think they implemented much to help him succeed in the classroom, I felt like he was judged for being hyper and hard to redirect. He did get free a little physical with some of the other TK students which I heard about every incident. But as the school year goes on with him at Park Village, he's been telling me about one specific student from MC He did not enjoy spending his time with and this student caused him a lot of physical pain as well even when he tried to be nice to him. I was never told of any kids being physical with him just the other way around. To this day HE feels like no one at the school, staff and students like him and as a mother, this makes me super angry because why is my five-year-old having these thoughts of his elementary school? I have spoken to a neighbor who told me she has met families who were told they don't have the proper skills teach high stimulated kids. Mrs. Smith, the behaviorist and the recess staff always treated him well. It makes me sad he thinks his teacher didn't like him and the other Students. It makes me angry that he supposedly initiated every violent incident. I got the chance to be in the classroom every morning for the first month of school and let me tell you, kids can be quite brutal to each other with their words! I know for the most part they don't realize what they say can be hurtful to somebody but my son has not forgotten all the mean words said to him at Morning Creek..

I have the best teachers for my kids, great office team that makes me smile and is always helping…read more The principal this is her second year and she is awesome. She is super supportive with the military support group starting up on campus which started up last year for the kids and the family. We have an amazing teacher who is an advocates and has been bringing military members on site to tutor young kids. I'm content and feel like I'm making a difference here with them. The PTA they are actually a fun group and they are for the kids. Work super hard and I love the programs. Absolutely love the volunteers I work alongside with, this year will be a good year I'm praying.

Review on campus only: We were able to use their auditorium for an International TKD event. Parking…read morewas able to accommodate the attendees. Tip: Since the field for Dingeman is right next to the Spring Canyon park, folks have the option to utilize the parking space for this park.

This school is rated 10. My son is eligible for kindergarten this year so I asked if we could…read moreschedule a tour and they informed they had 1 tour in January and that was the only opportunity to schedule a tour because they had no man power. I have the choice of two other schools that are rated 10 in the neighborhood. If there is a school that expects parents to enroll their kids without a chance to take a look at the facility and the dismissive and rude tone of the official sends a clear message and is a window to customer oriented this school will be. PS. Make no mistake. When you pay Scripps Ranch real estate and taxes which pay for their salaries, we are customers.