10814 Crossdale Ave
Downey, CA 90241

I write this review years later, not for sympathy, but as a necessary record of a profound institutional failure. As a 15-year-old student, I experienced a complete nightmare in this school's care.After purchasing lunch, the cafeteria manager confiscated my food and called security because she suspected the cash I used—given to me by my father—was counterfeit. She had checked it with a permanent marker.What followed was a multi-hour ordeal. I was detained and questioned by police for over two hours. No one called my parents. The police implied and school security implied that my father was a counterfeiter. I was a terrified child, crying and unable to understand what was happening.The resolution was as absurd as the accusation was cruel. After more than two hours, someone realized the manager had used a standard permanent marker, not a counterfeit-detection pen. The police abruptly left. There was no apology, only the chilling realization that the entire system—the school staff, security, and police—had collectively failed to exercise a single ounce of reason, compassion, or due process.They took food from a child, accused my family of a felony, and subjected me to a traumatic interrogation without parental consent. This was more than a mistake; it was a violation of my basic rights and a testament to how easily prejudice can override protocol and humanity.I share this as a stark warning. This institution demonstrated it was capable of traumatizing a child over a simple misunderstanding. No student should ever feel this unsafe.

School cares more about dress code and grades than student wellbeing the teachers are favoriting girls and the lunches are bad with hard breads and rubbery cheese the water fountains dispense murky metal tasting water and to get good cold water you have to pay. The principal is rude. Students get bullied constantly. they will take you’re belongings (phone clothes) and refuse to give them back. very few good teachers and you will be punished for absences even if they are excused and are important.

The kids there were really mean to me.