The lunch food here is HORRIBLE. 2 of my friends got FOOD POISONING from the chicken sandwich's. I…read morerecommend bringing your own food at this point DONT TRUST THE FOOD!!

Update: although staff are nice, not impressed with teachers or safety. Pulled my daughter.read more

I attended this school & now my daughter is a student here! We love the teachers and entire admin…read morestaff. This school offers so much more than an academic education, it offers a religious and moral foundation for our children. The class sizes are much smaller than public school classrooms which in turn means more one on one interaction with their teachers. I would highly recommend this school to anyone desiring a faith based education for their children

GOD AWFUL school! I have had three kids attend this school (two have graduated). There have always…read morebeen issues (teacher arrested/imprisoned for sex with student, campus police officer arrested for sex with students, science teacher having mental breakdown in class), but nothing like the problems I've had this year with my youngest son. I didn't know when I came on here to leave this review that there were already two other reviews about bullying, but they are ABSOLUTELY correct! My son (a junior this year) has dealt with SO much bullying and harassment, and the school has done absolutely nothing about it. NOTHING. I could go on and on because I have kept very detailed documentation, but the review would way be too long. Long story short, my son has been harassed for months by kids on the football team (which he joined briefly)-- by harassed I mean verbal harassment, threats and MULTIPLE incidents of vandalism to his car. When I called the first time to report the vandalism (which occurred on campus), I had to leave a message and was never called back. My son's car has been egged, paintballed, punctured through the trunk (a literal hole in the trunk that had to be repaired at a body shop), and lastly PAINT poured all over it. And not washable paint. Paint like house paint. Only one incident was caught on camera at the school, and it took TWO weeks for the students to be punished (with a measly few days of suspension). I'm sure that FINALLY happened only because I kept pressing the issue (my son was told by the vice-principal to stop asking if they knew who it was or what was going to be done about it). My son has had mustard thrown on him (stained his white pants), soap thrown on him, and he has been threatened. Of course the student who made the threat denied it, so again, nothing done. The campus police officer (if you can call her that), Officer Provencio is a freaking joke. I'm sure she works at the school because she couldn't hang on the streets. She is rude, arrogant, incompetent and thinks she is owed respect simply because she puts on her uniform every day. You can't have a conversation with her because she will talk over you and cut you off every chance she gets, then hang up on you (like a tantrum-throwing child) if you say something she doesn't like. I've dealt with two different vice principals, the learning director and even the useless principal, Mr. Sutton. There is absolutely NO consistency in discipline. My son was suspended from school for a "verbal altercation" after arguing with another kid in class over a seat, but the kid who threw mustard on my son got one day of in-house suspension. Mr. Sutton's advice to me was to make sure my son reports every incident to the office, "and the student involved will be addressed accordingly." My son DID report every incident (instead of taking matters into his own hands which became increasingly difficult NOT to do) and NOTHING happened. When I complained about my son getting soap thrown on him, this joke of a principal told me (and I quote) that the student who did it "was horse playing, throwing soap on several people," not just my son. How does that make it okay? You'd think that would make it worse, but maybe I'm thinking too logically. I get that it's only soap, but that's not the point. It is still unwelcome, which makes it harassment, especially when the asshole who did it has been involved in other incidents with my son. My son quit the football team and dropped his optional zero period class to distance himself from all of this, but it didn't help. Finally we decided to un-enroll him from this treacherous, garbage school and do independent study. It's for the best, but it's still unfortunate that my son is going to miss his senior year with his friends because this school failed him. I kept him home the entire last week of school besides a few minutes today. He went to campus today (the last day of school) only to turn in his computer and pick up paperwork to dis-enroll. He was there no longer than 20 minutes, and encountered some of the asshole kids (who were roaming around campus during class time with no consequences, as usual). He was back home no more than 10 minutes before the POS Officer Provencio showed up AT OUR HOUSE, telling my son there was "an anonymous tip" that he had a handgun in his glovebox. Are you freaking kidding me? I understand follow up is necessary, but it's not a coincidence that the first time my son was on campus in a week, after encountering these kids, there was a "tip." Nobody in our home owns a handgun, and we denied the officer permission to search his car or the home, and she was not happy about it. She basically told my son that he brought everything upon himself, that he was disrespectful and "wasn't raised right." She was just pissed her "authority" couldn't get her what she wanted. SOOOO glad I will never have to deal with this school again.

This school has horrible security, my son has told me that there are groups of 10+ boys in the…read morerestrooms all smoking together and the security even encourages they smoke! He told me the security told the group of students to keep smoking or else they were "p***ies". There is supposed to be security walking around the school everyday but suddenly when a group of guys starts fighting all the security disappear! And don't get me started on their joke of a curriculum. My son says the teachers don't explain anything in the lessons, they just give the answers for the assignments so the students don't complain. This school is completely outrageous! The school has metal detectors but students are being let in by security even when they have a backpack full of vapes! This school needs to replace every employee with someone who truly cares for the children and not just their paycheck.

We moved her to los banos a year ago and this was my daughter's first year and last year at this…read moremiddle school. She has enjoyed this school and has made many friends. She loves the teachers and feels that they are there for her when she needs the help. Thank You Los Banos Middle School for making my daughters 8th grade year the best!

Known as the prison to my kids. God I want to slap the crap out of the receptionist. Basically rude…read morestupid people(for the most part).When i registered my kids, we sat and listened to the large-bottomed receptionist talk about how she was taking her husbands prescription pain medicine to the other lady in the office while occasionally yelling at a student passing by. You have no idea how I wanted my kids to go anywhere else than this dump.No such luck, no other middle school in town. Finally my older kids are in Pacheco(who rocks) but alas I have 3 more going to this s**thole in a year or 2.

School allows bullying and does nothing to stop it except keep allowing bullying and pushing it…read moreunder the carpet and principal loves to bully kids who is in a sdc class or has special needs

This is in reply to the last comment…read more Sorry to hear these concerns! It's true that I'm a mother, use a laptop and "eats", but my students do not suffer because of these things and I'm happy to schedule a conversation to discuss, if you are a parent. -Mrs. Lara

During this time when parents need guidance and have questions to this "distance learning" there is…read moreNO ONE to answer calls and questions. We just get a mass email with limited information and told to call with questions yet no one is ever there to answer the phone regardless of the time being called. Very discouraging to the parents to be left out here with no way of getting questions answered or help in a timely manner. The only reason I gave this 2 stars is because my daughters teacher was amazing before the homeschooling. Thank you Mr. Duni for everything you did.

PLEASE don't send your children to this school. Insist on a transfer to any other school…read more My son was originally assigned to this school, and came home telling me about his teacher being stalked/threatened by her boyfriend. After a little bit of investigating, I found out that his teacher (2nd grade) was receiving cell phone calls during class time. The conversations were inappropriate for any child to hear of and the professionality of the teacher had to be questioned. Understandably, my son was worried that his teacher was going to be hurt because of what the teacher shared with the class. NO child should have to deal with this these kind of issues! To make matters worse, trying to reason with the teacher was impossible. She refused to keep her private life private. I thought that speaking with the principal would help resolve this issue, but the principal refused to assist in any way. After the principal refused to speak with the teacher, I insisted on a classroom transfer--no such luck. I was left with no other choice but to keep my son home until changes could be made. The next morning after my son was absent, I received a call from the principal, threatening me with criminal sanctions for keeping my son out of school! I had to pay a visit to the school district and file a grievance. I was immediately given a transfer to another school, but I have lost so much respect for this school district. Needless to say, Los Banos Unified will not be educating my child--EVER, nor will they ever receive my vote for increased funding. IF YOUR CHILD MUST ATTEND THIS SCHOOL AND YOU CANNOT GET A TRANSFER OR AFFORD PRIVATE SCHOOLING, BE SURE TO MAKE MANY UNANNOUNCED VISITS TO THE CLASSROOM.

During this time when parents need guidance and have questions to this "distance learning" there is…read moreNO ONE to answer calls and questions. We just get a mass email with limited information and told to call with questions yet no one is ever there to answer the phone regardless of the time being called. Very discouraging to the parents to be left out here with no way of getting questions answered or help in a timely manner.

Let me start off by saying that Yellow Brick Road has been a wonderful preschool and daycare for…read moremy daughter.She started off when she was three years old Mrs. Sandy worked with her for one Year. My daughter loved her so much that when she left temporarily she got so sad and would ask about her every single day it felt like family .Mrs. Karen and all the staff are amazing . This summer she was moved up to the preschool age kids class with Mrs. Ronette she is a wonderful teacher my daughter has learned a lot in only two months she learned how to write her name and how to spell it and every day she comes home with beautiful daily prayers and crafts ,She even started praying at dinner time ,and now she's has the whole family doing a prayer before meals. We absolutely love this school and recommended .

This is a small town and there aren't that many child care facilities here I thought I was doing my…read morekids good by sending them to a center instead of a home daycare but after a short time at YBR they are now in a better environment with a home daycare. My first red flag should have been that they had the kids playing outside when there were advisories to stay in because of the poor air quality from the fires. I'm only going to review the experience that I had directly with this center because I often had a relative who would pick up and drop off the kids for me. The plus is that they provide transportation from the schools, they have a third party (mom and daughter) who have a van and pick kids up from the different schools and bring them to YBR for after school care. The times that I went in to the center myself, it was just my observation that none of the teachers looked happy, including the program director, Karen. That should have been my second red flag, but I thought maybe it was just early that they are tired. The thing that made me stop bringing my kids here is that their communication isn't the greatest they could improve on how they let parent's know when their kids are running low on diapers or other materials that they need to make them comfortable throughout the day. That said, my son ran out of diapers and no one called us to come bring him any he had pooped and they left him in a dirty diaper for so long that his entire bottom was red and irritated he cried when I gave him a bath because it hurt. I put my 2 weeks in right away and literally felt sick with worry the whole time they were there. After giving my 2 weeks and letting Karen know why she responded and said that they had gone out to play he must have pooped out there and when he was picked up no one checked him before leaving. That would have been believable except for how severe my sons bottom was inflamed and his BM dried and was very stuck to his butt it seemed that he was that way for a long time. In any case, if that is really what happened to him, in my opinion, and with my experiences with other child care providers, a better response would have been to apologize and let the parent know how they are going to avoid something like that happening (ie. next time we will be sure to check children before they leave or at least offer to change before leaving) instead of making excuses. I hope YBR does better I wouldn't want this happening to someone else's child.