Review is solely for the field during a high school marching band competition…read more Parking was avail across the street from the school at a local college. The filed is in excellent condition, plenty of seating and if you are about working ion your tan, sitting in the bleachers here is the perfect place to bet the job done.

THE NURSE STAFF NEEDS TO IMPROVE!! KRISTY Craig and her…read moreassistant ARE SO UNPROFESSIONAL Always MAKING COMMENTS ABOUT Students PARENTS. Saying comments like "like mother, like daughter" "parents needs to learn a hard lesson" and making parents feel bad for not being able to pick up their child on time.. they denied permission for my eldest daughter to pick up my youngest. Kristy and her assistant then continued to talk bad about the parent TO THE STUDENT leaving the student feeling Very uncomfortable and upset. Kristy and her assistant kept laughing about the situation and continued to make jokes with the student present. The student no longer feels comfortable or safe to talk to the nurses when needed. Please help them improve on their behavior and attitudes. Or get new sympathetic nurses who actually care for the students and parents. THANK YOU

Adding to my past review because at this point it's a lawsuit. The worst and I mean worst place to…read moresend your child ESPECIALLY if you have girls !!! Keep them away from this school! The messages are from today November 10th 2022 If the texts do not post it's my sister telling me that her male teacher refused to let her go to the bathroom and now she bled through her jeans. Honestly do better Segerstrom.

This school makes me so sad and depressed I feel like everyone hates me at this school I don't feel…read morelike going there anymore as more and more days pass I feel like no one cares anymore

Good school. Good history. Good values…read more I would recommend this school to anyone who wants to put their kids in a challenging warm environment.

As a parent of a student who currently attends MD, it's a great school for academic. the teachers…read moreand school faculty are very supportive. BUT if you are coming here for football and you don't fit the vision of the coaches then look at other schools. There is a reason why they are #1 in the nation. Their top players are transferred in not groomed at MD. Don't expect to be coached, parents be ready to pay for private coaches or your son will experience feeling like a worthless human from coaches to players forcing them to just quit. So putting football aside, it's a great school.

This school needs to improve so much more. It can cause so much traffic from going in and trying to…read moreleave. They need to do better. Such an horrible area and to deal with cars doing llegal turns and blocking

Fraudulent business! Left their teachers multiple times homeless. And even left their international…read morestudents (minors with no parents in the country) homeless and don't refund people! Awful people! Have many lawsuits against them.

Place is over controlled by staff members, including the "school president" and her mother. We have…read morefound that the school is very strict with their policies, including not letting certain children sit together at lunch, not letting children go outside of the school at all, and manipulating student's personal preferences. Students have told me that the staff is allowed to interrupt the classes multiple times a day and yell at the teachers for not teaching exactly what the staff wants. The school perhaps is "toxic" and I personally would not reccomend it to anyone.

CdM is a great school with great amenities, courses, clubs, teachers, and amazing students. I have…read morebeen here since 7th grade for 3 years and the school has far exceeded my expectations, and I enjoy every day I'm here. There are some bad things about it, but it's overall a decent school. The problems have become much less significant over time, and are over-exaggerated and drummed up by the media to grab people's attention and get more views, but these stereotypes hold little actual ground. It's impulsive for us to just slap a label on a place or group of people, but it isn't as simple as black and white. It's important to recognize that stereotypes are often exploited by people who've had no experience in a place to just assume everyone's a certain way, without trying to understand and empathize. At CdM, there is little prejudice and is usually subtle and unintended. The academic environment can be stressful, but you have the choice of taking more advanced classes. If parents are forcing their kids to get really good grades and take challenging courses, that's a parental issue. If a teacher is unhelpful, others are always willing to help. Many of the negative reviews stem from misunderstanding, as parents are prone to just taking their kid's word when they have a complaint rather than assessing the full situation, and this lack of understanding leads to further escalation of the situations. For a new student, there will always be potential friends. Many kids at CdM were negatively influenced, but that's because they didn't choose good friends. While there are many entitled and troublesome kids, the overwhelming majority are kind, humble, and respectful; it's just about avoiding the minority of bad students. For most of my time at CdM, I was shy and never had much of a friend group; yet other kids have always made to effort to be kind to me when they could have stayed comfortable with their own friends. Most students have been quick to forgive me and move on after I changed for the better even if I had done something bad in the past. Most kids won't peer pressure you if you say no to something. Your school experience is what you make it and how you perceive things, and you can make good choices. The problem is that a lot of people get dissatisfied even because of minor things. THIS is the entitlement in CdM people complain about: the ones who can't take any shit and who have no gratitude. It's the ones who care about CdM and try to make it a better place that love CdM because the other students respect and appreciate them. If you come into CdM with an open mind, a kind personality, and a drive to succeed and make friends, the rest will already be taken care of. You know the negative reviews are due to entitlement because it's always the parents that are doing the dirty work for their kids when as students, they should take control of their academic experience. It doesn't make you look good as a parent to be the one bailing out your kid by contacting a teacher. It's the inconsiderate students that want to leave CdM. These people are troublemakers. They are surrounded by their ego and have no idea that they're pissing everyone off, and their parents who only see one side of the story assume that CdM is a horrible school after hearing their kid nonstop complain and they move their kid to another school to cause more trouble. I was once one of these obnoxious kids, but I recognized that my actions were unappreciated by others and have changed since then. Kids who I once annoyed now respect me, a testament to the forgiveness of CdM students. The school has issues with parent cliques, and the administration does have some issues with inefficiency and management, just like any other school, but as a student, the most important thing is to be able to go to school every day and just be yourself and to be surrounded by respectful students and teachers, not whether the school decides how often the bathrooms are cleaned. Your main interactions with the administration will be regarding attendance or course changes, which it's really efficient at. Why wouldn't you give CdM a chance? In the small chance you don't like it, there's little risk in transferring. People move from CdM to other local private schools or vice versa all the time, and they can still keep their friends because they live in the same area; but if you do like it, you'll save a ton on tuition, and that money can be better used on other things to further develop your child's interest and to ensure future success, or even just for enjoyment. I kept this review brief to address the general issues. If you want to know something more specific about CdM, you can email me at wynneyoung555@yahoo.com or text me at (949)375-0086, but don't call me because I don't take calls from unknown numbers.Here's why many of the points made in other reviews are wrong: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DxEqbhM7_oP2kjPJT8EhDTro5y5afy0m9LM7c4KwO-4/edit?usp=sharing

Vicki Gilmore the principals assistant refused to help my daughter who was taking the initiative to…read moreproactively plan a strategic move on her own wanted to schedule appointment. Wow this lady was incredibly rude. I cannot believe it. We left with no appointment made and my daughter FEELING that Vicki Gilmore will never HELP her. I will file a formal complaint against HER ABUSE OF POWER.

Horrible!!!! The teachers don't know what there doing, they call there own programs the wrong…read morenames: example "go to buzz to have your child submit there homework" there IS no program called buzz leaving me searching and fustrated for hours, the real program was called critical thinking. They over use different platforms to the point it's confusing, "sign in here, now go here, now go to this program for a minute just to sign over to this one and then open two more....." There instructional videos are glitchy and laggy and don't play right at all. They force the parents to taking an orientation quiz to pass, the quiz itsef is discfuctional not allowing any correct answers. Again making us waste hours trying to get it right, when the problem is THEM. I was hoping my daughter would get some social interactions with the other kids on the computer, but they mute every body and even during the little dance sessions they have for kindergarteners they pause the camera feed so my daughter feels like shes the only one participating, and it's super sad. I have nothing nice to say about this school and program. we submitted a withdraw from the school before 10 days. countless problems to many to list here

A wonderful online school with great staff. They worked with us when we were having problems with…read moreone of the teachers and came to a very good compromise. And they were wonderful when we were in the midst of a move and uncertain as to what city we were going to end up in so it was a good solution at the time. A lot of the students probably don't thrive as well in an in-person setting seemed like some kids had a problem following attention and maybe some bullying which is why we originally ended up there. But great staff who are very interested in the success in education of our children. I do recommend

So this school is big, it looks like a High School. Lots of football fields, a big gym along with a…read morebig track and field area. I have friends with kids that go here and they love it. My son plays basketball here on the weekends and it's great that we get to use the courts and the parking lots. I read in the paper that the school district was installing new AC units on all the glass rooms and office buildings. This is very nice because other schools in the area are still very hot. So from an outsiders view this school gets 5 stars all the way.

Honestly as a former student, if you make friends and do your work it's fun an easy. The only bad…read morething is the staff. They don't care about bullying, think everyone is suicidal or depressed, and I can't stress this enough, but they look for any excuse to take away and look through your cell phone. Like you get in trouble and even for non cell phone related things, phone check, if you complain your being bullied, phone check, they see your phone out at lunch, oh well we are gonna try and unlock it while it's sitting in the office. In regards to bullying, if you were to walk into the office and report that you have been bullied, they would avoid doing anything about it, somehow ask for your phone, then get mad at you about something small. Like the cartoon character on your Lock Screen is inappropriate, we are calling your parents. Overall not bad. Just the staff is sometimes untrustworthy. Oh and also they accuse you of things all the time. They will call your parents into the office just to tell them that they think you did a bad thing or whatever. Also the school fails state evaluations constantly. Keep that in mind.

As a parent I continue to be impressed with the amount of opportunity at Newport Harbor high…read moreschool. From STEM classes, to Culinary, Mentorship programs to every club imaginable, There's something for everyone here. I have to say the bathrooms could use more attention. And make sure your kids lock their bikes properly. All in all the teachers care and it was a positive experience.

Oh boy, where to start on this school. Well, to end this negative review off on a positive note, we…read moremight as well start with the negatives. The absolute worst is the social climate. The most entitled, selfish, and arrogant little boogers crowd up this school, and they are an absolute headache to have to deal with, in addition to schoolwork. Speaking of schoolwork, the teachers have no idea when to draw the line in terms of pushing students. They push STEM subjects, while also completely ignoring how that isn't everyone's area. One Chemistry teacher here in particular is who deflated my self-esteem and put my mental health on a downward spiral. He would berate my class nearly every day. He would call us lazy and stupid if we want to go into the easier IPC class. He convinced everyone that school is all about retaining a bunch of information and unimportant facts, which is complete BS. Problem is, scumbags like this are authoritative figures, so me being the good student I was, listened to him. It took me months and several talks with both my parents and various counselors to reprogram me. Seriously, someone would sneeze in class, and he would give a 35 minute speech about it. I found myself nearly crying from stress several times in class, and I just had to drop out. Even after this class was behind me, I was still brainwashed by this teacher, which ruined my self esteem, and made me feel like I had no future. Things came to a point, and I was eventually hospitalized. So, way to go, science department, you ruined a teenager's self esteem. I hope you're proud of yourselves. Another flaw is the demographic and overall hygiene of the campus. There is garbage all over the place, which is sort of uncontrollable, but the bathrooms are improperly maintained and several of the buildings are either old, dirty, or both. The bell tower is the star attraction of this school, and it has a giant dirt stain on its side. Not cool. Now, onto the positives. If anything, it's that MOST of the teachers are pretty nice, the main Robins-Loats building is pretty, and the counseling staff is stellar. Those are definitely admirable things, but since the social aspect is one of the most integral parts of public school, I found myself too distracted by the negatives to focus much on the positives. I would recommend avoiding this school. And if you do go, steer clear of the tougher science classes, and don't be too socially active. Chances are, you will find yourself hurt, rejected, and crushed.