15320 Live Oak Springs Canyon Rd
Santa Clarita, CA 91387

The special needs program has been great, from what I can tell the teachers are amazing and so are the assistants. I just wish there was more accommodations for autistic students during assembly, picture day, recess etc. they also don’t have classrooms designed for specific needs, which would be helpful to target potty training, academic and social skills, transition etc. It’s hard to focus on 9 kids if half are still struggling with transition and are nonverbal, and the other half speaks, writes and is potty trained. Some kids need more support, and another kids need more socialization and I haven’t really seen that available at Sulphur springs. I feel like the kids are being held back from their real potential, and it’s not all the staffs fault but perhaps a lack of funding or district issue.

I personally only had a good experience because I wasn’t so involved. However my sister is constantly bullied in Canyon ASB and when it came to getting help, the staff was extremely unhelpful and actually made things worse

I can't explain how good it makes me feel that my daughter loves all her teachers, she seems to go the extra mile to pelase them. She was always a good student, but here she strived to make the honor society and did it..I couldn't be more happy. Two things my daughter loves is the new class rooms that have been added and that her science class room is set up to do experiments not regular desks.

AOC has to rethink its policies and create a student-focused school environment and it especially needs to readjust its policies and treatment of special needs students.There is too much unnecessary homework at this school. The instructions are confusing, sometimes conflict, and the instructions change without email notice to the students.Most weekends and holidays have to be spent doing homework and projects and studying for tests for AOC and COC classes. There is not much free time or time to develop a students' individual interests and goals that would help them in their college applications. Too much group projects where some of the students try to dominate and mistreat others and/or do not do their fair share of the work. Some of these students even use profanity and encourage each other to do sex and drugs in group texts.The large clique of group of students exclude and bully some of the students. Some of the teachers can be rude, mean, and incredibly unjust in their policies. A teacher even made threatening comments to students. But not much is done about issues when it's reported.In order to even attend this school, special needs students' parents have been required to sign away their rights to special needs services such as speech and language therapy or resource therapy. AOC sometimes does not follow the IEP accommodations such as extra time that is stated in their IEP (as is mandated by IDEA law) during the regular school year or summer school. For example, during the Summer Honors Geometry, students with special needs were not granted extra time as stated in their IEP and they felt forced to drop out of this class when they worked so hard to qualify for this class (when they got As in Honors Algebra 1, Honors Algebra 2/ Trig classes that they had to take prior to Summer Honors Geometry. This summer geometry teacher emailed that even if a students fails one test the student would fail entire geometry course (even because of an illness or internet issues). In fact they got all As in their classes were not allowed to move onto COC precalculus in the fall (whey they qualified with their A grades and COC algorithm for math) and now are forced to take regular geometry over the school year (because AOC does not have summer geometry over the school year) where they are not being given complete test reviews with problems and solutions (as the rest of the math classes are for AOC or other jr. high and high schools in the district have been given)