St. Mary's Star of the Sea has been amazing for our family. Our daughter has gone here since…read morepreschool, and she still gets excited for school every morning. The teachers create a structured, welcoming environment that blends strong values with great academics. Her academic progress blew us away, she was reading Magic Tree House books independently by the end of kindergarten. The school focuses on the whole child and makes learning fun. Highly recommend to any family looking for a supportive school community, regardless of your religious background!

Very poorly run school. Administrator is incompetent and gossips about students and families. Very…read moredisappointing Catholic school. The 3rd - 5th grades teach nothing, contain no rigor, have no Catholic teaching, lack classroom management, and the teachers are not credentialed (as indicated). The curriculum is a bunch of supplemental material & the administrator follows common core instead of classical curriculum, which most Catholic schools adhere to in order to set them apart from public school. The middle school math teacher is excellent. The language arts teacher is awful. This school lacks true Catholic doctrine and allows non-Catholic students to take the host. A true disappointment to the San Diego dioceses of schools.

My daughter just graduated from Classical Academy High School after 10 wonderful years with both…read moreCoastal Academy and Classical Academy. I truly cannot say enough positive things about this school. Throughout most of her middle and high school years, my daughter participated in the online program so she could pursue her surfing dreams. Her high school teacher, Deanna Benattia, was an incredible teacher during the last 4 years. She is kind, helpful, caring, patient, and goes above and beyond for my daughter. Thank you, Classical Academy.

Worst school ever. My daughter was in independent study for 2 years. Her teacher Deanna Bennatia,…read morewho was too busy to engage with my daughter. She didn't follow the CDE requirements for IS at all and used her husband's position as assistant principal to protect her position. Instead of guidance we got weekly emails about her weekends with her kids and the weather! What a joke! What does that have to do with my child's education. Furthermore the interactive learning was far from interactive or synchronous! Instead my child watched boring videos from out of state teachers with no way to connect with anyone! I don't know about the other teachers just this teacher and I can't believe she gets paid to waste my child's time with a joke of an education. We tried to switch teachers but that didn't happen so we switched schools! I only wish we switched sooner!

I live in Carlsbad and have some very positive observations and experiences with the Army and Navy…read moreAcademy, the cadets and the team that supports the cadets. Let me start with the most important part of the school, the cadets. I often see them in the Village of Carlsbad. Invariably, they are extremely polite and respectful, very articulate and mature for their years. They represent the Academy incredibly well. Please come to one of the Academy's military reviews and you'll see an amazing group of young men working together to achieve a common goal. It is very impressive. I have had the chance to talk with several parents and alumni. The feedback I have received has been exceptional. Every parent shares how much their son has grown in his years at the Academy and the amazing young man he has become. They are so proud. The alumni talk about the brotherhood they built with their classmates and how the school positively prepared them for lives after graduation. The Academy's educators and staff have the top priority to build young men of character and prepare them for the rest of their lives. My interaction with them has always been very positive and professional. The education standards are high and there is an infrastructure to support the cadets for success. They provide leadership opportunities so the cadets learn by doing not through lectures. The growth and development of these young men is their top priority. "Forging Virtuous Young Men for Life" incorporates structure, discipline, physical and mental development, leadership and academics. The Army and Navy Academy is truly a home where your son will be given the opportunity to grow and pursue his dreams.

We enrolled our 15-year-old son at Army and Navy Academy for the 2026-2027 school year and paid…read more$67,075 in full. Our experience was deeply disappointing and concerning on multiple levels. Despite advertising a structured, supervised boarding environment that "understands boys," the reality was very different. Our son was frequently left unsupervised in his room during meal times with no one ensuring he ate -- he survived on vending machine candy. Phone policies that were promised to us were never enforced, with our son on his phone unsupervised until 1AM. He was assigned to the football team but repeatedly missed practices with no follow-up from staff. Most seriously, when our son ran away from campus, the school failed to notify us as his parents. We discovered this ourselves through his phone's location service and had to report it to the school. When we brought him back, staff gave us 5 minutes to collect his belongings and directed us to take him home. My wife had flown in specifically to return him to school. Despite paying for a full year, we have been denied a fair prorated refund for the months he did not attend. We have since filed complaints with the San Diego District Attorney's Student Safety Task Force and the California Attorney General's Office. We trusted this institution with our son's safety and wellbeing. That trust was not honored.

Oceanside high school is a ghetto, unprofessional, and pretty messy school. Some of the people here…read moreare rude, bathrooms get messed up, and some of the teachers are forgettable.

Very ghetto school, terrible teachers, and terrible sports program. Going to this highschool has…read morebeen my 13th reason why.

Santa Margarita Elementary School in Oceanside, Camp Pendleton…read more Last year my son went to P-K, and this year T-k. Every staff member at the school has been amazing. The Principal and Vice Principal, the front office staff, the school nurse, and all the teachers ; they constantly try ( and succeed) at finding the best ways to communicate, and be approachable for the parents and students. There are policies and practices for keeping the students safe and accountable. The learning goals are set and worked towards daily. And everyone smiles and is genuinely friendly, so I don't think that'd be possible constantly unless it was a healthy environment. I'm very grateful for the time my son spends there.

I experience a hassle going back and forth for my child's paperwork for out of district transfer,…read morewent to their schools was told to wait I'll get emails sent, a week later nothing sent, had to drive to Oceanside school from riverside to see if I could get something sent. No luck, front desk said same thing e-mail would be sent! At this point I'm super upset! long story short, I end up driving to the school district office I met Martha a sweet lady in front desk she got me all I needed right away and even offer to scan and send to my email to facilitate the process. She apologized for others lame communication and lack of work, and went above and beyond to make sure I left with everything I needed! She made me feel she was there to help me and guide me, I kid you not i came in upset and left happy!! This lady deserves a big raise or promotion!! If I could I would give her a big hug!! Her name is Martha Fregoso Just because of her I give a 5 star! Libby Elementary gets ZERO!

the school has a nice mascot it's very nice to show anyone can learn as you notice this mascot is…read moreone of a kind

Security staff are rude and angry. This is the second time I've had someone be condescending or…read moreshouting when I politely and calmly pick up my kid from school. My daughter has crutches and I parked my car by the front office curb to help her. A lady in a hat came over and told me I can't park there, despite there being a row of cars parked right behind me. She said "you can't block the ramp" to which I replied what ramp? There was none, just the same curb everyone was parked at. She told me just move, and pointed to parking spaces on the opposite side of the parking lot. I explained I'm helping my daughter who's injured and will just take a couple minutes. She said park over there and move when she's out. Another security person said "oh yeah, she's like that" when I mentioned the encounter. The other employee was a man who yelled at me when trying to leave the large south parking lot. I merely followed the people in front of me and he started yelling at me "what the hell are you doing!!?" I asked him what's wrong, I'm just following the flow of traffic, sorry I'm just picking up my kid. He apologized, seeming to realize he overreacted. Apparently they want you to circle all the way around the entire parking lot even if no other cars are there. I understand, at least this time he explained it was just an unusual policy, not my fault. Can't wait for my daughter to graduate, I went to Carlsbad high school and this place sounds like a nightmare in comparison. The math teacher and others are troubled individuals with egos and power trips, untouchable due to tenure, what I hear from other parent and students. Only people who were polite were the front office staff, they had better social skills. Hopefully someone speaks to the parking staff.

Horrible school. My cousin complains to me about the staff that treats her disrespectful…read more Especially the security guards. This one blond lady with bangs she tells me that the security guard is always following her and says how mean she is.

Me going to this school is good the teachers are good but the food is mid and there is a after…read moreschool program

My child was severely physically, mentally & verbally bullied at this school in KINDERGARTEN. A few…read moreexamples: his teacher at circle time (everyone sitting down) made my son stand up and reprimanded him for something he did in line outside before coming in. I personally witnessed him physically pushed to the ground and punched by a group of kids, the yard teacher said " what did you do to make them hurt you?". He came home with scratches so bad on his body that he thought he had a sunburn. I told the principal and there was no action, only offered a school councilor "three times a week" for my KINDERGARTNER. This is just the tip of the iceberg for how incredibly awful this school, its leadership & the faculty were. I moved him schools & he has been doing amazing ever since. DO NOT put your child in this school. I don't have enough words to express on here how much of a genuine nightmare it was, and this experience set my son up to hate & resent school, created a deep sense of self hatred & self consciousness that has stuck with him. BEWARE, this is not a no-tolerance or safe space for children to learn in.

I like that Palmquist is a public school with a focus on STEM. I like that it has a community…read moregarden. I like my child's teacher. My kid likes her, too. But the registration process is disorganized and frustrating. Further, only having half-day kindergarten is really frustrating when you only find out the Friday before school starts that your kid is in the PM class. And to add salt to that wound, the PM kids have to come to class on Wednesdays at 8:15. This makes it really difficult to set a schedule for your child and only the kids put into the PM class are affected by this. I feel like this certainly will have *some* impact on academics.