UCLA Lab School has the most beautiful campus on 6 wooded acres, it is absolutely magical. We…read moretransferred here, and my child loves each day she has at Lab School. Your children will be surrounded by exceptional teachers with advanced degrees. They utilize the latest and greatest educational methods, and researchers are on-sight. It's very exciting to learn about their hard work and results. The Principal has a PhD that is also an expert in Early Childhood education. Dr. Renata Gusmão-Garcia Williams is a brilliant, captivating leader and the kids love her. Small class sizes, access to the latest technology, walking field trips to museums on UCLA's campus, agriculture programs with a Farmer's Market really excites the kids to grow and sell items to the community. UCLA Athletes come to campus from time to time to play and mentor these lucky children. They even get a Fit Day and utilize UCLA's athletic fields! Every culture is welcomed and celebrated. There is no experience that can match this. Any child at this school has a once in a lifetime experience to be themselves, and thrive. The Board of Advisors is filled with brilliant diverse people who love and cherish the school. You can drop your child off and know they are in the best hands. This is an exceptional community of caring, wonderful Parents and Caregivers. One of the best places in the world! https://www.labschool.ucla.edu/

This school is excellent Filled with passionate families,…read moreexceptional teaching staff, dedicated and thoughtful administration, and its own library, STEM rooms and various arts and music programs. In addition to having a dual language (English and Spanish) option, it is a research institution that tests the cutting edge of education methods while primarily implementing inquiry based learning. It also has an excellent student to teacher ratio, social emotional tools and resolution methods, AND it's is diverse in so many amazing ways from the student body to the cultural lessons shared throughout the year. If that wasn't enough, they are committed to sustainability; with the most amazing campus (with an actual creek and redwood forest!) as the official setting and backdrop to learning, everything about the school screams excellence. If you win a spot from the lottery admission, you'll be so grateful you applied

Went to Brentwood School for one of my kids' basketball games in the pavilion and I was impressed…read more The campus looks and feels like a small university. The gym and facilities were very nice. Everything was clean, organized, and well maintained. The atmosphere for the game was good, families were there, and everything felt positive. Overall, it was a very good experience and I am giving Brentwood School 4 stars.

Came to watch my son play volleyball against Brentwood on 2/19/26. The gym is so nice, the campus…read moreis absolutely beautiful! It looks like a mini university. My daughter has also had a swim meet here and the pool is stunning. The staff is always friendly and helpful with directions. Plenty of visitors parking.

My experience was actually horrible I had a third grade teacher named Lily Chang but everybody…read morecalled her Ms Chang she would purposely not give me food in the mornings always had a rude attitude and never let me participate in any birthday parties and made me watch students eat cupcakes on their parties while I'm the only student without one and mind you this school allows bullying and let any bad kid get a pass and cuss I also had a teacher ms Rodriguez who wouldn't do anything but cry shows you how shitty this school truly is a lot of kids would leave the school because of the bullying that nobody did nothing about I had to write this review because I'm older and this part of my school life was fucked up if I were to come in today I would walk up to ms chang and say fuck you bitch for being a shitty teacher she couldve got in trouble for not feeding a kid in the third grade

I went to this school and it was a fantastic school and teachers care and help u all the time the…read moreprincipal super nice and respectful, he's just amazing I am really sad because I want to keep going to that school, but sadly I can't, but it is an amazing school I used to have a bad grade and by the end of the year I had a 4 and it is crazy I went to a 1 to a 4

Arguably the best Day (no Boarding) Private School in America, Harvard-Westlake has 2 campuses;…read morethis one is for the Middle School campus which is in Bel Air, in the middle or a quiet residential area. The teachers are really well-educated, prepared, great communicators, and very supportive. The students are accepted through a highly-competitive admissions process, and are generally very bright, multi-talented, and self-motivated. The results speak for themselves -- H-W sends graduating Seniors to some of the world's Best Universities each year.

Attended The Justin Carr Memorial Swim Invitation. A Beautiful tribute to Justin. He will not be…read moreforgotten. Harvard Westlake is certainly a fine venue! The HW team and families were gracious hosts! Congratulations to all teams and invitees! (Each invited competitor were amongst the top two from each invited school! What an honor to watch! Impressive to see a record broken! Swim Facility at HW, Copses Family Pool, is impressive! Spacious and modern with so amenities. Well run and maintained.

Mirman is a great school. The locations is very nice and it's nestled in truly beautiful area of…read moreLA.

My daughter came through, having a great education and became a doctor! She made wonderful friends…read moreand the teachers and Dr. Mirman were wonderful.

My oldest transferred here in 3rd grade right before the pandemic hit - we left UCLA Lab School and…read morehave really loved the teachers, staff and leadership of the school. The SEL curriculum and Cool Tools reminds me a lot of UCLA Lab's approach -but without the tuition. Last year my other son started kindergarten. He's young for his grade so we decided to repeat kinder and got full support of the faculty and staff to do this - they really listened to us and allowed us to lead what we knew was best for our child. The Faculty is also very diverse which was important to us - we were looking for a school with strong BIPOC leadership and CWC is exactly that - amazing folks for my kids to look up to and aspire to be like - that look like them. One thing I wish there were more of, is the arts - but we are working on it - it's a community with so much room to create and imagine a future. We are so happy we found CWC and aren't going anywhere!

Students to teacher ratio is horrible. They expect you to be available to pick up your kid any time…read morethey misbehave. Letting kids run free through the hall with no supervision. I've heard similar stories from other parents who have found better accommodating schools in the area.

Reading these negative reviews are comical. They sound like entitled parents who believe children…read moredo not need to be disciplined when they do not follow the code of conduct expected of students. As an alum of Curtis and now a parent, I can see the incredible impact Meera has had on the Curtis community. Not only is she personally invested in the school, as a parent, but also as a head of school. She is warm and is one of the most involved heads of school I have ever seen. She makes a point to get to know every student on campus and has an open door policy for ALL families on campus. She has turned Curtis into one of the top schools that feeds into every elite LA high school. Curtis students are well rounded, well behaved, adaptable, and more than prepared for middle/ high school. I feel so fortunate to have the opportunity to send my kids to Curtis and I hope Meera continues to lead the school for many years to come. Curtis is such a special space and you are lucky if you are able to experience it firsthand!

We have been here twice, now, for a 4th grade baseball game. My son's team was visiting Curtis…read moreSchool (the home team). The kids seem well-behaved, and the parents who were also cheering their boys on were really friendly, and nice to the visiting team's parents. Parking isn't the easiest, but the guards at the gate made the best of the situation, instructing me to park up a nearby slope, near the Headmaster's house.

My niece Hannah attended this school.I am very happy and impressed with everything they taught her…read more.She was very happy there .Thanks to all the teachers and staff .You guys were Amazing!!!!

Great school Pam Martin the principal is wonderful the staff is fantastic from the yard monitors to…read morethe teachers these people are great!! No wonder they beat Warner in test scores It comes down to leadership. Wish we still lived in this district.

Very informative and a community driven school you can tell they really care about the students and…read morethe principal is very cool and laid-back. Ask him anything. My daughter just started here and they did a great job transitioning all the kids. My daughter is excited about school most important. So far very pleased!

My child has been going to this incredible school for almost 6 years. She is currently having a…read moregreat experience in Franklin. The teachers are great and the school is an anti-bullying environment. I'm soooooooo happy my daughter goes to this WONDERFUL and INCREDIBLE school.

We've been at Village for seven years and truly couldn't be happier with our experience. Village…read morestrikes a wonderful balance between strong academics and meaningful social-emotional growth. It's a school that not only educates children, but genuinely nurtures them -- and we feel incredibly grateful to be part of this community. We see this play out in our family with excellent standardized test scores and excellent emotional intelligence. Village's placement into top middle schools speaks for itself. Through both COVID and the fires, the school demonstrated remarkable resilience, leadership, and care. The way they supported students and families during those unprecedented challenges was thoughtful, steady, and above and beyond.

A few years ago, I attended a Village School Zoom meeting that addressed critical race topics…read more Concerned, I later wrote to the school board to question their dedication to equity. They responded, saying that equity has been a core classroom value of theirs for almost ten years. Historically, the purpose of education was to help students excel. Recognizing that people have different interests, talents, and motivations, different levels of classes--such as GATE, honors, and AP classes--were created to ensure everyone could excel at their own rate. This merit-based system rewarded excellence with the opportunity to take more challenging classes and achieve even greater success. However, equity, as used by critical race theorists and DEI promoters, means equal outcomes. Equity is antagonistic to excellence because excellence naturally leads to inequities due to differences between individuals. Since educators can only do so much to help students achieve excellence, those who have integrity to values have chosen to handicap those with greater interests, talents, or motivations as a way to achieve equity. For example, San Francisco removed algebra from the 8th-grade curriculum in the name of equity. Typically, students could progress from Algebra in 8th grade to Calculus by 12th grade. Proponents of equity realized that not everyone could reach Calculus by 12th grade, so they handicapped excellent students by not teaching Algebra in 8th grade, ensuring the highest math level attainable by the end of high school was Pre-Calculus unless students doubled up on math courses in 9th grade. Similarly, Seattle shut down its honors program to achieve equal outcomes. Given Village's response and my purpose for sending my son there, I told my ex that I wanted him removed from that school. She countered by arguing that the teachers aren't actually practicing equity; it's more of an interest for the administrators, and Village admins give teachers a lot of leeway. As an example, she mentioned that our son is currently learning algebra in 6th grade. If an Asian boy is being taught more advanced math than his peers, it suggests that his teachers are not practicing equity. This indicates that Village is only virtue signaling equity without actually implementing it--or so I hoped. However, I am not blind to the effects of ideas. Even if Village's admins give teachers leeway, they are still responsible for setting the organization's culture, hiring, promotion, and firing decisions, and extracurricular activities. When I see DEI book clubs or events for non-whites, I see the writing on the wall. Organizational change may take time, but it happens. If I were a teacher focused on educational excellence, I would find these activities either a distraction or antagonistic to my values and would seek employment elsewhere. So, while my ex may have found examples indicating that Village currently lacks the integrity to fully implement equity principles, I have two remaining questions: 1. How much better would my son's education have been if they had rejected equity outright and fully embraced the merit system? 2. Given how much I pay each year, should I be satisfied with an organization that lacks integrity? Fortunately, my son has graduated from this school, so I don't have to deal with these questions anymore. Here are my reasons for the score. I give them 3 stars for the quality of education he received. The school recently raised tuition, but I don't see these funds being used to help teachers and students focus on educational excellence. Instead, I see them being used for DEI activities, such as dinners for families where one or more members "identify as a person of color." I give them 0 star for their lack of integrity. I completely reject equity as a value, but I have more respect for educators in San Francisco for taking their ideas seriously and trying to implement them, even to the detriment of their students, than I do for virtue signalers. Virtue signalers don't take ideas seriously. For an organization whose purpose is to convey ideas to their customers, the refusal to take ideas seriously is a betrayal of that mission. These scores average out to 1.5 stars. In conclusion, because I disagree with equity, I would not send my child to Village School again as they proclaim it to be a core value. However, even if I supported equity, I would still not send my child to Village School due to their lack of integrity. A business without integrity does not deserve my money or, more importantly, the right to guide my child.