556 Arden Ave
Glendale, CA 91203

The staff and students discriminate against minorities and LGBTQ students. There is no anonymous reporting system for bullying. If the students want to report bullying anonymously due to retaliation from staff they cannot do so. And a lot of the prejudice come from staff who protect the students who do the bullying. How can you report bullying to the same people who enable it? It just doesn’t work that way. That is why this school has a serious bullying issue and a lot of fights. It’s the administration who should address this but willfully fails to.

I think the teachers are caring and have a lot of years of teaching experience under their belts. But, I’m not a big fan of the dual immersion program. While it’s great that students can learn two languages simultaneously, I don’t think it’s beneficial for all. In some ways, I feel like it hinders them from mastering English language arts because they’re spending the other half of the time trying to master the target language.

My Son, now in 7th grade loves Toll! It was a struggle to get the hang of Jr. High in 6th grade after two academic years distanced learning (4th and 5th.) We worked with his counselor, I taught him to communicate with his teachers and advocate for himself and is now taking advanced classes, highly motivated and loves his most his teachers. I went to my first in-school open house recently and thought the teachers were all great! you could tell they are excited to teach which is so important. The school was clean, the Principal is super friendly, front office staff is always lovely. Overall it felt really welcoming and like everyone was energetically hyped for the year, including the parents I met. My advice for parents is to stay on top of your kids through portal and goggle classrooms, If I didn't stay on top of my son's grades and advocate for him during that adjustment period, which was more social than academic we might have a completely different 7th grade experience currently. This is where the academic, mental health, social aspects of this very important transformative period can feel very intense for kids, but given what I've seen so far from the staff I have no concerns that that helping the kids and parents balance this all out to achieve their highest academic success is the priority.