horrible fcken school, worse than all 3 high schools ive been too. counselor are useless and never…read morein there office, you need help? welp there not there. all the APs are weird and they make you uncomfortable, they follow you around enter bathroom. they have grown adults in the bathrooms at all times.

I would give the school 0 stars if I could. the way they run shit over here is stupid. The way the…read moreAPs and staffs run this school is unprofessional and needs to be fixed. The restroom is a place where students should feel safe, but every minute security and APs stick their head in to kick everyone out. Let's also talk about the uncleanliness of the school as well. What are the funds being used for when there is a cockroach and rodent problem in this school? Along with the trail of ants that are in classes and restroom. They need to fix their fucked up system and the well being of students.

The teacher is yells at children and discriminates against them. My child feels scared and does not…read morewant to go to school. He feels he is not treated fairly and is forced to admit his mistakes when he has done nothing wrong.

I am very disappointed in this school. I have been living near the area and both my siblings went…read moreto this school for about three to four years; my little sister was honored and praised constantly for her academic achievements: principal honor roll, honor roll, and a bunch of other silly colorful papers. Whereas my little brother was picked on and shunned by his teachers because he goofed around in class (what little young boy does not goof around through out his life). Everytime when my little brother comes home sad, I would ask him to tell me about his day at school: "the teacher does not listen to my side of the story at all. He keeps thinking I'm the one doing all the bad things." And these are just usual stories he would tell me when he come home looking like he's hiding something. I am very displeased and confound of the specific faculties that can side with "good" kids and neglects the "bad" ones. This does not goes to only faculties but also the principal: she does not listen to both sides of the story before executing her "I don't care but you're suspended." I know my little brother would not lie to me; I would put my life on the line for him. My frustration is that this school does not know how to handle their disclinary actions and how to monitor their faculties progression. Today was the last straw when my little brother was suspended for something that he did not get a chance to explain. My father does not speak english so he does not understand fully of what was going on, just that "your son is suspended for 'stealing' another student's item." As I questioned my little brother, the story is quite the opposite. Everything they wrote on his piece of paper were all accusations coming from one side of the story; how arrogant. I'm not letting this one slide off and let my little brother be scarred with authority figures doing the things THEY think are right. Listen to all your students for goodness sake.

After years of experience and having to move my children from school to school because of work-life…read morebalance, I feel with deep confidence this was one of the best elementary schools my children attended. Special Thanks: - Dr. Gary Gerstner and prior principal - Ms. Zachach (pardon the misspelling) - IEP staff - Speech therapist - Dolly Chatterton - Lilia (a name similar to Lily) - Parent/Community Advisory Committee - Parents in action Let me give you some context to compare amongst the other reviewers vs my review as a parent. When my children attended this school, I was a single parent, attending UCI as an engineering student, with a child in the IEP program, and having to manage my children's mother who was later found neglectful by CPS. All of this while working at Disney in customer service and born into poverty. Therefore, I had minimal chances to succeed as a parent, let alone the patience for all the possible mistakes I might encounter from being inexperienced. The Community: The people here are great and the kids are decently behaved. There might be a conflict between children every now and then but they do resolve it. The Parents In Action (PIA) cares about making a difference in the children's involvement with school activities. I've never attended a PTA meeting, sorry. The Staff: I don't like to generalize but they were awesome. I especially recall Dolly and Lilia (similar name to Lily). I put Dr Gary Gerstner and possibly the staff through some stuff with CPA getting involved, like the conflicts between the mother and I. In the end, I wish they knew it saved my children's life. Parent/Community Advisory Committee: The Advisory Committee is another level. I recommend attending if you're a parent looking for advance information regarding how to make the best of your interaction with the school system. For example, I asked what was the best way I can make the most out of the IEP meetings with advance resources. The person who answered my question was highly educated and very prepared. They taught me the steps on making a meaningful impact at each IEP meeting. IEP: The help in the beginning was profound. However, to make the changes necessary to improve as a parent for a child in the IEP, I had to be more involved. The specialists and teachers knew my limitations and made the best decisions available to them. The absolute best advice I received was from Ms. Zachach (pardon the misspelling), to make my child love reading and there is no limit to how much they should read.

As someone who went to the schools under this district, I can safely say that this is not a good…read moredistrict at all. Everyone in this district are the rudest people I've come across and it's no wonder why the students feel so miserable being there. They also treat asking questions and help like you'd ask the dumbest question possible and expect you to know that right off the bat. They wondered why some people are afraid to ask and that is why. In short, they act like you're annoying them. They even require you to have community experience and get involved with school activities to get into college or universities but how can you even do that when everyone is immediately rude to you for just talking. When you are part in a school club, they all used and throw you under the bus once you graduate. You thought "isn't socializing with others and making friends an important part of life", whelp not in GGUSD schools apparently as all that does is make it worse for you. Especially in the students case where you get accused for following them even though you just want to socialize with them. You know just like how everyone else does. It's even worse if you special ed and/or have autism and as someone who is both of those (at least was special ed before), they do not care about those people at all and the district would rather place you in the middle and expect you to figure everything out by yourself with absolutely zero guidance. They might as well tell you that you're not allowed to make friends unless you're with those friends since elementary school. Otherwise, every student will tell you "I don't know who you are". Even worse when it comes to picking a partner or get into groups because you will never be picked nor accepted. I've went to therapy regarding this and even though it is helpful, I guarantee you that all the methods I was taught will not work here or make it worse. The student are that closed off. I wouldn't even be surprised if they rigged test scores just to have certain students fail and even more so since common core is a thing. Even during the CAHSEE era, I was marked a 0 on the writing portions even though I did exactly as instructed. Though I did pass it the second time. You wondered how this even relate to your review you may ask? Well, it's because it relates to the students who falsely accuse me of following her and spread false rumors about me. One of the so called false rumors was me giving out her phone number (which I never did as I don't even know hers to begin with) that everyone instantly believed without a second thought. Here's what I think happened, I believe that someone made a fake/burner account with my name on it and did all of that just for people to blame me. My parents suggested we talk to the district about it but I was against that. If my high school was anything to go by, the district would 100% side with her and her friends because she was "a honor student and top 5 students who's praised by the whole school". I will get in trouble and told to "stay away from her" or worse, expelled from the district completely and I've seen this happened to other innocent people before. Apparently if you're nice and friendly person, you get punished for it. However, if you're rude, closed off and lie a lot, you get away with almost anything and even more so if you're really popular and have a lot of friends. Same applies to bullies where you can get in trouble for getting involved while the bullies are simply let go without any trouble. See my review on La Quinta regarding this as my stance hasn't changed much. If it wasn't obvious, this district really doesn't care about the mental health and the safety of the students here at all. Resulting in having an awful school life and tons of conflicts with parents thanks to their bad school experience. They seems to only care about higher test scores and being number one. One time, my mom wants to transfer my sister to McGarvin but they don't even respond to this transfers until the first day of school starts. Even then it's already far too late once she got a confirmation letter. What I'm trying to say is that they will force you to a school you don't want. Even worse if that school is lower ranking like Fitz and they wondered why their school year wasn't good. Normally, I would tell you to not recommend going to this district but depending on where you live, you're almost forced to attend the schools under GGUSD's belt. Looking back and seeing all the reviews here, seems like not much has changed since I left.

Great school Class of 2016 Best teacher there Mr. Garin…read moreLove the campus

In class I was awfully disappointed and discriminated as the two Hispanic boys behind me were…read moretouching each other, and the other older guy told them to stop, they stop and I was targeted by the teacher as they suspected me for doing it, because of this I was forced to stay in the front of the class for the entire period. Even though a lot of people said it wasn't me the teacher targeted me, and said it was me. Awfully felt target and unfair

Its a great school and all the people there are nice!! I would also like to say how fun it is there…read moreis so many electives but the one im doing right now is steam.

This school should do more for the students by giving them school busses kids are walking more then…read more25 min just to get to school then another 25 min back, this is so unacceptable .Garden Grove district doesn't see how this plays so much in their education. I would give no star to this school and Garden Grove district is horrible and they don't return calls or helping parents.

No Yelp pg for LQHS proper, so guess the review goes here. +…read moreGrateful for the AP classes offered here to kickstart my college career. Saved me time and $ to help pursue higher (under)graduate studies sooner and more productively. - Never realized how much the workout cage resembled a prison yard. - No pickleball courts. Qué lástima. - The literature teachers weren't good at teaching logical students how to excel in the arts. + The sciences teachers were excellent at teaching us the sciences and maths. Glad they were passionate about their fields too. - Their dance club organization was poorly executed. For every assembly performance, you were required to show up to practice 4am the day of or else you wouldn't be allowed to participate, even if you had been loyally attending all weekly practices prior. Since their 2025 remodeling, nothing's recognizable to us old alumni anymore. Fresh new grounds and buildings. Revitalized look.

To the mom wearing "Vietnamese student association la Quinta high school" shirt who smacked her…read moredaughter and embarrassed her in front of people Costco, way to show your narcissistic traits. Smacked her daughter so loud you could hear it with all the noise inside. I watched as the daughter was about to eat a sample only to be smacked! The daughter just looked straight ahead and took the verbal lashing her mom gave her. A teenage boy soon arrived to say only a few words only to be loudly scolded by the narcissistic mom, boy looked down in silence. I am familiar with those behaviors, looking down as it's a familiar feeling by my own mother. Neither child said a word. Why? Because they are used to being berated and if you even dare attempt to defend yourself, well be ready to be beat or unjustly accused of attitude for speaking up. Dear mom, I can only imagine who you treat your child in private if you so boldly assault your child in public. Seeing your face with that heavy eyeliner and trashy fake lashes brings back unpleasant memories of my own mother. Your behavior represents that high school simply by wearing it. DO BETTER.

Class of 2012!! Proud to say that this is one of the best schools out there. Made memories worth…read morecherishing. Workload wasn't too bad, students were far more friendly than they were in elementary school. Excellent music program though (although the teacher is a fascist who only seeks to win).

Mcgarbage is ok i do not like it though. Mrs. Diama gives a lot of homework, basically a whole…read moreessay everyday! That is the worst teacher. Mr. Vo is chill, my daughter has told me how boring mcgarbage is. I recommend this school for learning and no time to play

As always we begin this review with the bad. It was expected that our warm up area would be…read moreadequate to our standards, but we were extremely disappointed in the reality. It was, to say the least, terrifying to practice our backwards marching on a bumpy grass ground, as opposed to the smooth concrete floors that we should have had made available during this warm up. It's almost as if we were set up to fail, or that they were doing everything they could to encourage us to earn a low score. I truly do understand this effort, as I know that our school does pose as a threat towards others wishing to earn the title of first place. Next, to assess this schools environment, we will look to the overall vibe conveyed. I and other performers agree that a "fall feeling" was in the air. Nice trees, fallen leaves, and a peaceful area around our unloading and bus area. The halls were nice, and, to summarize, you could say we were grateful for the richness of this school, but also for the lack of money to make this one of those huge schools you could get lost in. Congratulations to Bolsa Grande HS for earning these four stars. -Marching Band Pro Performers

terrible and teachers were mentally ill they have favorites (shout out mrs steel and me van they…read moreare the best ever)

My niece's primary language is English. She was born here and we've corrected them multiple times…read morealready. Yet they insist on paper that her primary language is Vietnamese and make her do assessment test (which she aced). Please don't make me pull out the racial discrimination card because I genuinely hope the school and its staff are all nice and fair people.

The new principal doesn't know how to handle things he needs to be replaced! I went to this school…read moresince I was 5 and i went though a lot of things all he did was suspend me when I did one little thing he does not deserve to be a principal.He kicked me out of the school when this was the school I was going to my whole life!