I can't recommend Apple Tree enough! The staff there have helped my son immensely and they are all…read moreso nice and patient with him. He came in with a speech delay and no real social connection to anyone other than immediate relatives, but he's come to love it there. He actually gets excited to go and see his teachers and has memorized all the songs they sing to him. He even transitions from one activity to the next without major meltdowns as he used to. We previously tried a different speech and learning center and my son would dread going. He would have outbursts in the waiting room and not want to participate (even though the staff there seemed just as nice). But there's something about Apple Tree's structure, environment, and teaching methods that really resonate with him. They even have a parent coach and send out newsletters with helpful information that makes navigating a child with delays seem a little less daunting. Plus being able to be in the classroom with him to see him interacting and learning new techniques to manage stressful situations has helped all of us. On top of all that, we started this going to Apple Tree in the middle of COVID, and yet the precautions they take make me comfortable enough to send my 2yo there. All the teachers and therapists there seem to really enjoy what they do and it shows in the improvements my son has made.

I absolutely love this place. Thanks to OC regional my son was able to start Therapy here about a…read moreyear ago. I had the opportunity to work with several of their therapist before transitioning into group therapy and so far everything and everyone has been so amazing!

My son has been attending Kindercare since he was 18 months. He is nine years old and enjoys the…read moreSummer program. As an infant, he was well taken care of. Miss Julie helped with potty training my son within two weeks. The classrooms are NOT overcrowded, so teachers are able to spend more time with children. Miss Mel, the Kindergarten teacher, really preps the children with reading and writing for school. As a result, my son receives awards in academics every year at Kennedy Elementary. My son now attends the Summer Program and really looks forward to going. The Summer Program has field trips, shows and jumpers. Kindercare had proven to be a reliable, safe, fun, and educational Daycare. I must mention the professional manner of the management, which is the core reason why Kindercare is a successful program for children.

We love the staff at Cerritos KinderCare. They are more than just someone who gives great care to…read moremy child. They are family. Cerritos Kindercare helped raise 3 of my babies and I cannot be more grateful for each teacher they had. From the infant room to Kinder room. Thank you all. We will miss you! You'll forever have a place in my heart!

This is a really great school for autistic kids. My son…read moreattended here for almost 10 years and made tremendous progress. They worked with his behaviors that were his most significant challenge that prevented him from functioning in society to the point they were no longer an issue. They have many functions and GREAT people. Too many to list here so just call me if you want more info; 714-926-2192.

These are just a few of many deficiencies: Internal staffing issues which include high staff…read moreturnover and frequent rotation and inability to provide concrete evidence when requested to show progress that were declared on IEP. If progress were written on the IEP, how come staffs are reluctant to show these progress in real life in front of parents? Staffs are also frequently being shuffled from classroom to classroom as needed. Staffs almost always have a hard time responding to very specific questions. Parents: you have to ask more questions. Time flies Love your kiddos. This facility can do better with the right leadership and commitment in place.

My 2 year old daughter just started attending Sunrise Christian Preschool (Preschool for Orangewood…read moreAcademy). I was very worried, since she is still so little. But after 2 visits of the school, I could not wait to send my daughter here. Our first visit, my daughter loved the playground. While me and my husband were still talking to Audrey (the director), my daughter kept asking us to put her down. As soon as she was put down, she ran to the playground and played with other kids. Both me and my husband were surprised how fast she was adapting to the place. 2nd visit, we tried the class room. My daughter was again very interested on what other toddler were doing. The teacher gave them play-doh and tools to work on it. Following that it's craft and drawing, which I play with my daughter at home too, but the school is able to offer so much more than what I can offer my daughter at home. They have all the fancy materials and tools. My daughter enjoyed them all. Of course, she kept asked me to sit beside her just to feel safe. But you can see from her eyes how much she wants to play like other toddlers. Then there is dancing and singing time, story time, then outdoor play time (Water day on some of the days). The kids there are so adorable. One of the little girl (later found out she is only 2 year old as well) even came to share her instrument with my daughter. Such a cute and friendly environment. This place is a perfect for us. We thank God everyday for preparing this place for us. 1. Perfect location Less than a block from where we live. Walking distance 2. Christian preschool So she gets to learn Christian values 3. Perfect class room ratio Our first visit, there were 17 students with 4 teachers. You cannot get better than this. 4. Affordable pricing (Compare to Montessori) For 3 mornings or 2 full days, we are paying $390 per month. Lunch is only $2.00 if you don't have time to make one. 5. Good size of play ground and plenty of activity selections There is a b grass area, big trees with shades, huge sand house with canopy, tons of toddler cars and bikes for them to choice from, and of course slides, and places they can climb and hides. My daughter would not take naps when I watch her myself, now she comes home and faint on the floor before I even give her a bath. I have to thank to this playground. I often see rabbits come in and out this playground too. 6. My daughter likes her teachers. Most of these teachers have been working in this place for 10-19 years. It must be a very nice place, so teachers are willing to stay. My daughter cried for a few mornings when I dropped off. But now she goes in, hugs the teachers, turns around, and waves bye to me, like telling me to go home. I am the one having hard time adjusting how fast she like her teachers. Well, selfishly, I hope my review does not increase their students, because I like how it is right now. However, I am just too amazed that we are able to find a preschool that fits perfectly what we need right now. I just have to write a review. So for those, who have the same concern as me, can know there are affordable and trust worthy schools that you can have your kids try.

Giving any Child a Seventh Day Adventist Schooling is an Amazing & Spiritual Gift. There are too…read moremany worldly things accepted & taught in many Main Stream Curriculum that won't be taught at Orangewood Academy.

The Los Alamitos School District is one of the best school districts in North Orange County…read more It consistantly scores high in all acadamecis catagories and most if not all of the schools have been awarded National Blue Ribbon awards most have achieved this status more than once. Most of the elementry schools are located in the unincorperated neighborhood of Rossmoor. There are two middle Schools and one High School and one continuations School. The student body is made up of students from Rossmoor, Seal Beach and of course Los Alamitos. We have found the teachers and programs offered in this school district to be be outstanding. The communities are very family oriented and academcis are a priority in most housholds. Additionally at the high school level Los Alamitos High School is strong in almost every atheltic program from Swimming to soccer and of course the perenially outstanding Football team.

Parent Warning: Weaver Elementary…read more Los Alamitos USD is one of the best districts in California, and we love being part of this community. Most schools -- Hopkinson, Rossmoor, Lee -- truly live up to that reputation. But parents need to know: Weaver Elementary, under Principal Dr. Schmidt and teacher Colette Sullivan, is not safe for children. Here's what happened to our kindergartener. For three weeks straight, he was removed from Ms. Sullivan's class and left alone in the principal's office for hours every day -- without our knowledge. He was not disruptive. His only "offense" was not finishing assignments. Instead of being supported, he was dropped in a chair with no desk, no guidance, and no instruction, while his classmates learned. We only discovered this because our child became so fearful that he broke down and begged us not to take him to school. The secretary confirmed the routine, and Dr. Schmidt himself admitted it happened multiple times and defended it as acceptable. The school kept no records and never notified us. Think about that: a six-year-old child, abandoned daily, completely unsupervised. Imagine the damage to his trust in school, his sense of safety, his joy of learning. For weeks he sat silently, terrified, while we thought he was in class. When the district was alerted, the superintendent investigated and disciplined both Dr. Schmidt and Ms. Sullivan. That discipline alone proves how unacceptable their conduct was. Yet, shockingly, both remain employed at Weaver, still responsible for children. This was not discipline. This was not education. This was neglect. And it happened under the direct leadership of Dr. Schmidt and Ms. Sullivan. After transferring to Hopkinson Elementary, our son's experience was completely different. Principal Garcia and his new teacher welcomed him, supported him, and restored his love of learning. He is thriving again -- proof that Los Al schools can be extraordinary. But Weaver is not. The leadership failed. The teacher failed. But I'm glad the superintendent's discipline did bring accountability but it won't bring back the damage that it did to our child. Parents deserve to know the truth: Weaver Elementary, under Dr. Schmidt and Ms. Sullivan, is not a school you should ever risk sending your child to. Until there is a complete change in leadership, avoid this school at all costs. Do not make the mistake we did. Do not send your child to Weaver Elementary.

My experience at Fairmont Prep has been really great. I attended Fairmont North Tustin elementary…read moreschool and looking back, it prepared me really well for the high school environment. I'm currently a senior, so I can say that every teacher I've had thus far has been not only knowledgeable and passionate about their subject, but also very considerate, caring, and dedicated. Being part of the Advanced Science and Engineering Program and International Baccalaureate program, I feel really confident in my intellectual ability and my ability to time manage a pretty rigorous course load. The range of CP, AP, Honors and IB courses, athletics, arts, and everything in between makes it so that the Prep is suitable for any student who is looking to be well prepared for college.

I currently have 2 children at Fairmont Preparatory - one will be senior soon and the other will be…read moresophomore. This is a typical private run high school, uniforms, smaller classes, college prep curriculum. I sent my kids here because I felt they take student safety as well as opportunity for learning, seriously. The tuition was always high, and every year it would increase 4-5%, typical of private schools. 2 years ago it was sold by the owning family to a conglomerate (named ISP or "International Schools Partnership"). Since then, many of the great teachers or people around the school, have begun leaving. The emphasis is now on creating a "glossy image" for the school to appeal to high income international students and their families. The have focused heavily on making everything look orderly, and making the student population look diverse (it is not). There is less emphasis on the actual curriculum (resulting in cutting down on classes offered) and less encouragement of school clubs. Due to this combination of unfortunate factors, teachers are leaving left and right. I cannot blame them. The school has increased tuition for this coming year by 11%, citing "maintenance needed for air conditioning, and more, etc." to the campus. While they have increased tuition by 11% for every student, they are cutting teacher salaries. If they increased tuition, to keep the teachers, it is something parents would understand and have to accept. To be told tuition is going up at this rate, and to know that teachers are all being told to take a pay cut - raises the question - where is all this money going? It is not benefitting the teachers, and not benefitting the students. I can only imagine it lining the coffers of I.S.P. and the management salaries of those who work there. I feel we are now stuck - I don't want to move my kids and upend their school life. I used to be able to "recommend" this school to parents who wanted an option for a private school. I do not recommend this school anymore, because the current owning company is only interested in increasing their profit, and promoting all their portfolio of international private schools, rather than actually caring for each campus, the happiness and motivation of the teachers, and the offerings and education for each student. I will be very fair. If you a family from outside United States and would like to send your child to an expensive international private school through a student visa, I believe you are the target market. They can place your child with a host family or house them in a dorm, and bus them to school, etc. This will cost you yearly about the same as a US Private College tuition, but if money is not an object, this will not matter. You are the most important target market for I.S.P., and your child will attend Fairmont Preparatory with many other children just like them. This is not derogatory- my children have many international student friends, precisely due to this marketing strategy which heavily influences the student population. If I had known another entity would purchase the school, raise tuition, and order pay cuts for teachers (again, where is all the money going then?) which then causes an exodus of great teachers, then I would have looked for another private school for my children's high school education.

My son's used to go to one of the schools in Norwalk and due to a move here at Cerritos we had to…read moretransfer them over. After covid and homeschooling my kids were shocked from being home to now going back to school and socializing. My eldest son had to slowly learn how to make friends again and at the end of the year I am so glad to see him happy and glow again. My youngest son was at a daycare prior, so he was scared to even enter kindergarten after not going to school during the pandemic. My son had Miss Kvale, and he always came home with more content such as reading and doing math in his head such as addition. I felt like he was ahead of the game and I appreciate both the teachers my sons had. He always came home better then the last day, and I love the fact that the parents are able to keep in contact with the teachers if any parents had concerns. The principal is very friendly and open and is willing to answer any questions without any attitude unlike any other principal I've experienced when asking questions concerning your child. The only reason why I gave it four Stars was due to the bullying and missed report by a recess supervisor... when the incident was reported by my own son I brought it to the principal's attention in which the issue was fixed immediately. Another issue is mainly due to the driving of the parents picking up their children and acting crazy... I literally had to call police once far from the school after them cutting me off and following me around my home to scare me. Other than that the school is good in my book and my boys will continue to go to school here for another few years. Not all parents are crazy and I've met a few parents here who are pretty cool. We also have exchanged phone numbers for play dates.

Back, then in my days of Juarez since i was diagnosed with ADHD/Mild Autism i wasn't treated the…read moreright way like i wasn't getting the help that i needed for myself. Like Ms Balbuena was the one of the only ones who understood me and thought of me as a good kid, Even Mr Goldmann and Ms Heeran back then. But, in 4th grade-6th grade i didn't get help and i've seen people getting bullied and having poor social emotional developement and i was a victim as they didn't understand me at all. I was being bullied and even i was getting rejected by my peers in my class and they laughed at me as if i was a joke and i sometimes falsely accused of doing something wrong. Sometimes I did do wrong things but it was rarely in occasion not frequently. But i wasn't like happy during 4-6th grade as i had poor social skils and low self-esteem. Plus, I didn't have proper friends as well so. Also, some of my friends backstabbed me and my friend group and one of them, I'm not gonna say any names, but he got me in trouble, and I was set up, and I was frustrated bout it and most of the time i got peer-pressured.

My son recently turned 4 and has been attending two consecutive 30-minute weekly Speech Therapy…read moresessions at Expression Speech Therapy in Garden Grove for the last 1.5 years. By the time he started speech therapy at 2.5 years old, our son's spontaneous vocabulary had actually decreased to practically nothing--he was unable to say his own name and mostly communicated by just grunting or pointing, so he was definitely behind most 2.5 year olds' language ability. While it did help that our son started attending childcare full time a couple months after starting speech therapy, most of the children in his classroom were younger than him--and many were still learning English as their second language, so I'm not sure how much English language reinforcement our son really got at school initially. Fortunately, within a few weeks of starting speech therapy as Expressions in late February 2017, his primary therapist, Miss Anya, was able to establish a great connection with our son and not only did he enjoy his speech therapy sessions, but after just 4 months of weekly speech therapy sessions, by the end of June 2017, Miss Anya was able to help our son make the following improvements: * Spontaneous vocabulary increased to 8+ words - increased from basically 0 words * Able to imitate single words with 30% accuracy - increased from no ability * Able to say "more + noun" to request and "all done + noun" to end play - improved from only grunting/pointing to request/lead * Able to make a few requests with word approximations with 30% accuracy - improved from only grunting requests * Able to label 4 nouns & 2 verbs with 80% accuracy - increased from no ability * Able to state his name with 50% accuracy - increased from no ability So, in addition to our being very happy with our son's progress in speaking and pronunciation at Expressions, we're also constantly impressed with the support and care that Expressions' staff exhibit toward our son as one the their patients--and us, as his parents, too. We especially appreciate that Expressions' therapists are also always happy to recommend different strategies, resources, and activities to help reinforce what our son learns during speech therapy. ^_^

We have had our daughter going to them for a little over six months . She was not saying any words…read morereally at 18 months. Since being with them she is speaking so much more language ! We have loved all the teachers she has had , as well as the front office staff. They are so helpful and give great care to our child. They are attentive, and really know her personality and what works best for her. We are so thankful for their care and understanding and skills, we highly recommend them.