20371 Bluffside Cir #B-204
Huntington Beach, CA 92646

I am a student at Sowers. Do not send your kids here!!! The teachers seem more excited to head to the lounge at Lunch than to teach you! Not to mention, a (Karen) teacher lost it when I told her she could not take my personal belongings. The only bright light among the teachers is Mr. Will Johnson, the math teacher. Principal’s also very lame, cares more about his image than promoting safety and discipline. He expelled a student for making an AI-generated post about him, for example! If you’re looking for a school where your kid is going to enjoy learning (learn real topics), this should be the last place to consider unless you want your kid to fail. Go to Dwyer or Ensign instead, they’re far from decent, but still totally better than Sowers!

This school USE to be really good. My two oldest children attended this school for all grades, K-5. By the time my oldest was in 5th grade she was being bullied, the teachers and school have no preventive measure against this but it resulted in her having to work through a ton of mental health issues and we had to switch her middle schools because of this bully. A teacher called me to inform me that my child was speaking ill of her and using foul language (at recess to another student), when I asked the teacher if they had spoken to my child yet to confirm this was true, their response was "No." The teacher then proceeded to back track because they knew they were out of line and they should have spoken to my child, then reached out to me if it was not being handled correctly or to inform of the situation/consequence. Lastly, my children have seen other children bring vapes, USE the vapes at recess, bring knives and NOTHING happened to those children UNTIL it was their 5th offense so they have no desire to protect the children from other children who break the rules repeatedly! The principal always looks mean, teaches his staff to be rude and condensing to parents and doesn't handle anything that is required of him to be an effective principal. He is not approachable and the communication with this school is terrible! All the good teachers have left this school, minus 1-2. Most of the teachers are very short tempered with the kids, even yelling at them multiple times a day. My children and their friends would tell me who they hoped NOT to get the next grade because of this. I have had to sit a teacher down and tell her not to speak to my child that way and she lost ALL trust with my child because of how this teacher behaved and how poorly they knew how to regulate their emotions with these small children. Now that my children are out of this school they are THRIVING! Getting straight A's and actually excited for school! Before they never looked forward and never wanted to go to school and struggling in ALL areas of academic as well. Which shows how much these teachers do not care for these children. The younger of the 2, was getting D's and F's on tests, the teacher never scheduled a call with me to discuss the issue, not even an email! I had to reach out, after about 4 tests they totally failed and had to ask the teacher what we should do to help. The response was very short & generic which never helped my child succeed. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE!

I was a student at Edison high school in the 1980s. I can’t speak for the school today but when I was a student here we excelled at art, athletics, drama, music, and extracurricular activities. The school is really close to the beach and the kids are healthy because it’s a very athletic and outdoorsy culture despite the fact that it is not as academic and is more sports oriented, my classmates went on to become very successful. This includes one who became a rocket scientist who went to Harvard and is now the vice president of an aerospace company, the valedictorian who went on to become the Superior Court Judge in Orange County, another friend went into County Supervisor politics, a friend runs her father‘s family business and a friend who went all the way to the US sailing team and the Olympics. I became a successful journalist and public relations executive in Silicon Valley. I feel that my art education at Edison and the journalism program prepared me for my career.