GOD AWFUL school! I have had three kids attend this school (two have graduated). There have always been 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. read more

This school has horrible security, my son has told me that there are groups of 10+ boys in the restrooms 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. read more

This school is awful. Food is too they always be rotting, my friend and there was almost like a black vein inside, I ate one then I had diarrhea. The nurse is always rude for some reason and the counseling never helps. Based on the stories I've read from the reviews this school is damn awful read more

Pacheco High School - Middle Schools & High Schools Near Me - Los Banos, California

Principal models and supports an atmosphere conducive to bullying. No teacher support. I taught there several years ago and was scapegoated by a paraprofessional who gossiped and encouraged other staff to follow suit. Counselors double registered my students in other classes so that my attendance was erased by other teachers who marked my students absent. Learning director called my class and screamed at me about this. Later I found out that the responsabilty for this lay with the counselors . No apologies for the most profoundly unprofessional behavior I've ever experienced. No explanation to the parents about what the counselors had done. After IEP meetings teachers would laugh and make their own decisions about what the plan for the student ought be, completely disregarding parent input, mocking parents. Having worked in the field of Special Ed for over 20 years my experience aching at this school was surreal. There is not a school in the nation that I feel more disdain and disgust. Send your kids to any school but Spacheco High. Parents, watch the staff at this site like a hawk. read more

School has severe bulling and has been unable to keep people safe. There has been recent fights and none of the teachers care. No one is really safe and Ive seen many people get bullied in and outside of school. Pacheco high is a dangerous place. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO THIS SCHOOL. It might seem pointless if you live near Pacheco high but its guarantee to not send your kid here if you don't want your child to be bullied or be the bully. I had my child come here and been bullied many times and been hurt by other students who don't seem to care. If you do send your kid here, Make sure to ASK WHAT AND WHAT HAPPEN to make sure they aren't getting bullied. The staff is terrible and the teachers are too. My daughter has even told me shes been sexually harass and assaulted coming to this school and beg me to not come to this school anymore. I confronted the school about this AND THEY DID NOTHING to solve this problem. Its better to send your children to another school and not this one. I please beg of every parent to stop sending their kids here and to never come here again. read more

Not good school. no one even helps especially counselors never do their jobs. Food here is the worst. They want students to return while corona outbreak and think they can keep everyone safe and place sanitized but before schools shut down this school couldn't keep their own bathrooms clean. Tampons and bloody pads on the floor. Never any toilet paper. Soap always ran out. How do you expect students to keep themselves clean especially during covid. Trash everywhere, and full. No bathroom mirrors this school took them off. Especially the class ASB. They never do anything might as well call it a free period. read more

I went to this restraunt last year. There was lots of kids running around. And the bathrooms are covered in piss. There cafeteria does not serve five star food. And the bjs from the janitor were the worst I've had. Will not be going back anytime soon read more