277 Oconnor St
Menlo Park, CA 94025

M-A is an impressive place, especially given the extreme socioeconomic diversity and varying high school readiness of its student body. The curriculum provides for courses ranging from remedial to AP and beyond. There are extensive resources for academic help (ranging from office hours to after school help to peer tutoring), a huge number of clubs and extracurricular activities, highly competitive athletics, nationally-ranked debate, award-winning orchestra and jazz bands, the list goes on. Students are given opportunities to participate and excel regardless of family financial situation. And this is borne out in the college outcomes - the majority enter college, and many go to Ivies, Stanford, MIT and top UCs. Most importantly, I have found that the teachers work hard and really care about their students - not just their academic outcomes but their entire well-being. During the pandemic, many teachers went well above and beyond to ensure that their students' mental and physical health was secure. It is a hard thing to measure, but, as a parent, heartwarming to see in action.

I do not recommend the school because my student has had a lot of problems with the teachers and teachers. Don’t want to do anything about it in the classroom. It’s crazy all the time he actually had his teacher quit earlier this last school year and ever since they’ve had nonstop substitutes so the school needs to find better teachers who they know will stay and will take care and show students how to learn and respect each other because my son has also gotten really hurt at that school