Alameda

The office staff and teachers are very welcoming. My child is warmly greeted by multiple teachers every morning when I drop her off. The school is doing more outdoor learning and field trips than in the past. There was a agriculture day with llamas, chickens, games and special visitors recently. It was so cool to hear my child come home talking about soil and farming. The class sizes are small, whcih I really like. Teachers are helpful and work with my student on reading especially. I like the direction the school is taking.

This school has completely feral children. Very little rules on the playground. Communication from teachers is minimal. My student was held down by multiple girls while being bullied..I was not contacted. I was told about the incident when I volunteered for play day at the very end of the year. Also another very alarming incident happened when one student told mine they would bring a gun to school and murder her. Once again I was not notified. My student came home, shared what happened and I had to call the principal. The principal said they handled the situation. Now let's talk about education. With the children not held accountable for their actions they misbehave during class. Which does in turn distract the students that actually want to learn. My student fell behind in class and was submitted to a tutor, in the last three weeks of school. There are no extra curricular activities. There are some good teachers and the counselor is excellent. The front office lady has an attitude most days. I do not recommend this school. If you live in this district I highly recommend transferring to another school.

All around horrible experience. From communication to programs to education my child did not get what the needed or deserved. When i advocated for my child who was struggling with reading they did absolutely nothing. My childs confidence plummeted and she hated coming to school. The counselor did nothing to support her declining mental health and no one would communicate with me when my child would spend several minutes crying non stop.

Oak Grove is okay for elementary, but quite lacking for middle and high school. The STEM program is abysmal, and the student's standardized test scores in math and science attest to that. Grammar and writing programs are excellent, but the subject matter and reading material as the students progress to higher grades are boring and tedious. Many of the teachers do not use the classical method to teach, and there are teachers who are not certified to teach at all. Sports and arts programs are pretty much nonexistent. The school has been renting space in a church for like 15 years now, with no hope of ever having a permanent building, so students never get to hang their artwork on the walls, leave their science projects on display, etc. They have to schlep all their books and materials back and forth between school and home, and the "sentinels" have to police every piece of loose paper or pencils, water spilled, or anything left behind they aren't allowed to leave one shred of evidence that they were ever there, lest the church has a fit. The headmaster came from another school that had no strategic plan, and he brought that same lack of skill and planning to OGA. So there is really no plan for a permanent school. The description of the school is grossly inaccurate also. This is not a non-denominational Christian school. This is an Evangelical church ONLY school. Families will be looked down upon for being Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc. Evangelical students will make negative comments to non-Evangelical students, how they are wrong, etc...and there is very little done about it, bc the teachers and admin agree that there way is the only "right" way. There is a strict, but unspoken but very thinly veiled code there that if you aren't part of a working dad, SAHM trad-wife family, you are lesser. There is also a very strong current of right wing political sentiment, and quite a bit of hierarchy among students whose parents are deemed more important due to money or having a special standing in church, etc.