1516 Matanzas Rd
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

I have had one son graduate from strawberry. He did odyssey of the mind and his teacher was his coach. He also was in the safe student ambasador program. He also had a 504 plan and succeeded very well at this school. I niw have a 5th grader at this school. He loves going to his school. He has an 11th grade reading level and gets bored but the teacher is always making sure he isnt bored.

The teachers and admin are not up to date on best practices for teaching or emotional literacy, especially kids with learning differences. They insist that they provide the "gold standard" of intervention but when their old bag to tricks runs out they blame the child and parents for lack of progress. This place is full of rules and blame with no innovation or understanding of children's development and individual differences.

Slater is a great school. They offer a varied academic schedule as well as zero period for students wanting to take an extra elective. There are many clubs and after school sports and activities for the students. The principal and staff are great.

I am a student in my Sophmore year and have wished to transfer almost the entirety of both years. The school smells of vape and marijuana constantly, and there have been several students getting drunk and high on campus. I am physically disabled, and, although I am personally able to traverse campus easily, it sometimes feels as if the school has done the bare minimum to be accessible. The SpecialED program is horrendous from what I've seen. A few of the staff in it have absolutely zero discipline and just allow the students to get away with anything unless the behavior reported to a different staff member via student.The other students are definitely the main issue in my experience. The classrooms are basically run by them. You can't go a single class without hearing slurs being thrown around or some sort of joke about sexual assault or "being spED" or just general disrespect to teachers and staff. There have been so many students who just straight up refuse basic requests from the teacher to their face. The bullying is rarely physical but there is plenty of it to and from both staff and students.Most of the teachers are fine, if not really good. I loved Ms. Peakes and Mrs. Clark and respect most of the other teachers I have had. Despite that, there is a good portion of teachers that are very passive aggressive or just straight up rude and will yell and curse every class... though with how some students act, I can't entirely blame them. The substitutes are AWFUL; my freshman year had at least 6 subs that had to be fired due to racism or showing adult content. The teachers/staff are very often absent; we've had waves of up to 24 or more absent around every month. Althought I believe these staff deserve breaks and sick days, the substitutes don't teach and if they aren't on their phone, they're probably being offensive.Overall, the school feels very unprofessional and unaccepting, mostly due to students, and the teachers are very poorly funded (especially classes like Ceramics).