173 E Kellogg St
Ventura, CA 93001

There are a couple of pearls in this school. It’s well known that the maker space labs are top notch. Then, there’s everything else - and from ELA to math to science to computer science, the quality of education at DATA is deplorable. Reviewing assignments shows flawed questions, misspelled words, “trick” questions. The implementation of the Aeries online portal is completely chaotic as grades published can fluctuate from F to A to F within a week. Aside from the low quality teaching, the administration that can’t seem to keep a principal to save itself, a student body that knows not to use the vape bathrooms lest they get assaulted, you have possibly one of the worst middle schools in the county. And I think I just misspelled country.

4 Stars, however since Sheridan adopted the name (Academy of International Language Study) they post this phraseology on every bit of paper and communication they can. The amount of irrelevant communications they bombard parents in texts and emails is very annoying. This new “Duel Immersion” emphasis on is holding our kids back. Children that elect to learn Spanish, Mandarin or any other foreign language should be able to decided that later in their scholastic career. Forcing kids to learn foreign languages before they have developed their own native tounge is counter productive and causing inevitable delays in reading writing, phonological, lexical, and grammatical systems. You would be shocked how much time is dominated and dedicated to learning foreign language. These very young minds could be absorbing so many more productive subjects instead. We continue to see a downward trajectory of scholastic scores and testing (especially in Eng. Literacy) over the last few decades here in VCSD. Also, as the same with any review sites It’s of course up to us as parents to filter though the reviews that sound like a biased administrator wrote them.

Didn't suck too much. Still wouldn't go back though. Got bullied and nobody did anything. Other than that it's pretty okay.