I just read some of the reviews for Birmingham and I beg you to take these reviews with "a grain of…read moresalt". Many of the reviewers sound bitter and want someone to blame for their lack of discipline. If you want to be successful at Birmingham, you CAN be successful at Birmingham, period. The simple facts are these: #1 The campus is beautiful (BIG but beautiful). The groundskeepers and the students take good care of "their home". There are new covered eating areas, new Amazing murals on the walls "Patriot Pride" and if there is a bit of "tagging", it's removed immediately. #2 High security. They installed hundreds of cameras recording all activities on campus. These recordings have been used to prosecute wrong doing. If a student is doing something wrong, security is dispatched immediately. Most students complain about too many security guards yelling at them to get to class! #3 Teachers who push their students to succeed and genuinely care about their students. Many teachers offer many hours of extra tutoring time if students need it. #4 Every sport, club, music, theater, and art class is offered at Birmingham. The sports teams are amazing! The band program, choir program, and theater programs win numerous awards and produce many successful concerts/shows. There are many visual arts programs including drawing, photography, digital imaging and even ceramics. # 5 SLC's (Small Learning Communities) that really tailor to your child's interests and goals. #6 Mr. Parks is a great principal! The staff will help you if you ask. I've seen many schools and most are not as organized and committed to excellence as Birmingham Community Charter High School. Can your child have issues if they go there? Maybe. As a parent, YOU need to check up on your child. You can go online and check your students progress on the Aries computer grading system.You the parent can see if your child "ditched" a class (which isn't hard to do with a population over 3,000 if a kid wants to do that) by looking on the system or calling the school. Don't wait for the school to inform you. Most students (and parents) who complain about Birmingham, are the ones who complain about everything! I know it's not the "Braves" anymore, it's the "Patriots" now---get over it already!! Did I mention how good the food is there now!?!?

Do not send your kids here ... this school is a melting pot.. it sucks, shame on Birmingham for…read moreallowing it . It used to be a lot better, disgusting!!

Everything! We had such a meaningful exploration of Daniel Pearl Magnet High. The school offered a…read morefeeling of a close knit and highly invested community of students and faculty. The students presenting in the booths all spoke with such enthusiasm and affection for the school. We are attending 9th grade in the fall and today's tour really confirms that we made the right choice!

My son has taken a liking into the media production side of this school's curriculum. He has never…read morebeen more excited to help out on his free time, than to go help with video productions. Highly recommend this small student body High School, which makes student feel welcomed and appreciated.

Very great school, including the taiko when I was there in 2023 (I didn't attend Crespi high…read moreschool) but I came in Crespi with my mom and dad for Ivana cuz she invited us back then to Crespi for her taiko. Anyways, it was great taiko performance including Yatai. KEEP IT UP CRESPI + LOUISVILLE TAIKO! God bless. -Anthony Elaneh from LA Pierce College Graduated VAAS in 6/6/24

Here for the first round of the CIF State Basketball Championship tournament…read more Bishop Amat High School (29-5) vs Crespi High School (20-13). The gym is very small, seating is extremely limited, seats are VERY tight from the person seated in front and behind but the AC works GREAT! This is a much older gym, and based on the championship banners hanging throughout, this school knows how to win championships.

Very bad school. Sent my kid kidpool here and she got bullied very much because of those kids…read morethere. The counselors are both much help they just act like they help you but in reality they do NOT. Also a little of fighting here and i love violence which is shocking coming from me.

Very good school I would recommend sending your children here. It is very clean and staff is…read morehelpful and friendly.

Solid 4/5, being a first year of high school…read more This school is known for its small capability and territory, though a good ratio of students to teachers. The classes that the school provides for its first year is alright, but could be improved, by asking students what they willing to learn. Math, English and Spanish is a great periods that you would have, but the rest - digital art, computer science, and the most "doubtful" is ancient civilisations. Digital art provides students with a small peace of information, and though gives a lot of opportunities to open yourself in this topic is great, but it has a lack of useful information that the teacher needs to tell to students. But mostly, it's you just researching how to do "this and that" material. Computer science is a great way to start your experience with coding, and has a lot of material how to code, create a game and etc. Ancient civilisations, is a period where you expect it to be something interesting about the history of the past, such as different continents, how did the people were lived in the part and etc. BUT, the teacher gives a social studies material, and would be the best at jt. But yet still, no. It's a lot of water information that you would forget in the few weeks. And of course me, being very interested and fired up, wanted to learn history, upsets me. This kind of class does not suppose to hold "ancient civilisations" name at its first profile. I hope that my opinion will change in the future 3 years of school, and I could leave a solid 5 star rating.

2014 alumni & I have nothing but good reviews for HTLA. It's focused on college-prep and…read moretransitioning into the "real world" outside of education which is amazing. Staff is wonderful -- caring & supportive. Many pros of being a small charter high school located in the valley -- smaller staff to student ratio which is always a plus. It provides education on a more personal level where all your teachers know you and your strengths and weaknesses and thus are able to cater to provide exceptional academic support. HTLA is the main reason I was able to get accepted to UCLA straight out of high school (unlike many of my peers from other schools). They set up a great foundation for you and are with you during every step of your academic journey in order to help you achieve your goals. 11 years later & looking back, I might have changed some things in my life, but my choice in high schools is definitely not one of them.

This school's education system is extremely horrible. I'm just completely flabbergasted on how they…read moreteach kids. As a student myself, I literally can't learn anything from there. Either the stuff they teach is extremely irrelevant, or you'll never understand anything. A class I want to specifically mention in this review is Math Honors. I literally can't understand anything from the teacher. Not only that, regular math is literally just 7TH GRADE MATH. Finally, I want to talk about the food. Please bring your own lunch. The LAUSD lunch they bring there is really garbage. I literally found a cockroach crawling on the table where they serve lunch. Don't apply to this school if you want better education for your child.

This is a good school to transfer to if you enjoy rigorous work and teachers who enjoy…read moreproject-based learning. The teachers here are very well-versed with their students and due to the small amount of students in the school, people can easily get to know each other. However, the teachers are easily persuaded when it comes to students misbehaving. The students who misbehave often talk their way out of punishments and are still noisy even after getting a scolding. This sometimes makes the classroom environment extremely loud and difficult to work in. Otherwise, it's a good school and has a very project-based curriculum.

So small, nothing to do, and the teachers are alright. Don't like the principal because he had no…read morereason and canceled things he promised. If you want to play a sport it is almost a guarantee because the sports teams suck, so you can play on a team with little to no experience

I went here about 7 years ago. I transferred for 9-12, got bullied, and I faced a lot of people…read morepicking on me because of my lisp. There are definitely better schools to send your children to. I'm so glad I graduated and I was able to be accepted into a good college on the east coast where I'll be far away from this school and all the horrible memories buried within it.

If I could give this school 7 stars I would. They K program is unbelievable . The teacher care so…read moremuch , do field trips, art , cooking etc Thank you to the principal (Kathleen), Ms Lori, Ms Kim , Ms. Jessica for being the most amazing teachers! I've never seen a school care and do so much for kids!

They didn't seem to want to answer emails or calls when I had a few questions. Decided to send my…read morekid to a school that cared to respond.

This has been a great school for the last 20 years! I went to this school from 1991 to 1995…read more Having emigrated only 3 weeks before school started, I did not speak or understand much English at all, and I was placed in ESL classes. Thanks to great teachers and a caring and encouraging counselor (Mrs. McDonald), I was able to learn English fast, and transfer to the honors program starting 11th grade. I ended up taking AP English and Honors English 11 simultaneously in the 12th grade! I graduated taking all my A through G UC required classes, and got accepted into several UCs and Cal States. And once at UC San Diego, I was able to keep up and even graduate with honors with a major and two minors. And why did UCs want me, despite my low SAT verbal score? It was thanks to the abundance of clubs and activities that I was involved with at Reseda High. There were so many clubs at this school, you had your pick of several for each day of the week. And teachers encouraged students to join things, like a very active student cabinet, journalism, a second newsletter put out by ESL students for ESL students, a great drama program, cheer, flag, all sorts of sports teams, choir, band, 18 different clubs, volunteering opportunities such as planting trees on earth day, and more. My ESL teacher (Mrs. Worman) encouraged me and my best friend to run for office and join Student Cabinet, and I am so grateful that we did. We ended up becoming very involved with a whole lot of things, not knowing that colleges would like that, but because teacher after teacher made it feel good to be involved. And now, long after high school I have remained involved wherever I go, because I learned the value of being involved. This school was full of very caring teachers and office staff, who went out of their way to engage and teach students. The only staff members I did not like were one Spanish teacher who could not control her class (Mrs. Swanson?) and the college counselor (Mrs. Stanzberry). She stuck out, because she was not friendly and was intimidating. The rest of the teachers I had were fantastic, especially the ones in the social science department (especially Mr. Kaz and Dr. Shaffer) and the ESL department. Now, years later, I have tracked some of these teachers down via facebook and we have become facebook friends. I was shocked that they even remembered me 18 years later. They tell me that they remember most of their students. And they do! They remember distinct things about personalities of my classmates and cousins who went to the same school. (Meanwhile, for the few months that I attended Taft High school, 2 teachers didn't even take the time to properly learn my name then, and I couldn't tell you any of their names either cause they did not connect with me in any way.) The campus was beautiful, complete with its own little forest at one end, and clean. The kids were nice, and inclusive. My lunch group looked like a mini united nations, complete with two white guys and a white girl who hung out with us Persians, Rumanians, Armenian, El Salvadorians, Mexicans, and Russian! And others came and went, hanging out with different groups on different days as they pleased. Because of this, I got plenty of opportunity to practice my conversational English, and people marveled at how well I spoke English for the amount of time I had been in the US. This could be because in some schools the culture is such that different races self-segregate and recent immigrants end up together with others who are not fluent in English and fluent in a different language so they speak to each other in that language. Me? I don't speak Rumanian or Armenian or Russian or Spanish. The only way to communicate for my lunch group was English. And now the there is a magnet program on campus too, and I hear that it is wonderful. My cousins went through the magnet program and loved it. Interestingly, most of their teachers were the same as I had. And for the relatively low socioeconomic neighborhood full of recent immigrants, Reseda high and its magnet have unusually high test scores, college admissions, and scholarship recipients. I attribute it to the school culture and the attentive teachers and staff who go above and beyond to pull kids up and encourage them to explore different avenues and apply for all sorts of different opportunities.

A 12 year old girl died on Feb 25, 2026 because the school did not take bullying seriously. Her…read morename was Khimberly and she was trying to help her older sister because she was also being bullied. I wonder who the teachers and principal are at this school. .... as caregivers they need to do better.

I go to this school and it is quite amazing actually. All the teachers are nice but sometimes…read moreunfair. The counsellor is fair when I get mocked and credits to Mrs. Hall for always supporting me.

This school has been very disappointing. My brother has clearly needed additional help in school…read morebecause he has a difficult time concentrating. The school counselor (Ms. Donna Lee) never reached out to us about our concerns and what methods we could take to help him. I then reach out to the principal who refers me to the special education counselor (Ms. Berman) who promised to set up a SSPT plan for him and also meet with him once a week. Never happened... very disappointing