20522 Valerio St
Winnetka, CA 91306

I am very happy with Amara’s teachers and progress she is making on a Dailey basis.

Canoga Park High School is very adamant about students doing the best they can and getting into college; assemblies are made to see where students are academically and to remind them about where they are supposed to be. They offer good magnets, academic resources, and extra summer learning apart from the usual summer credit make-up such as ninth-grade summer geometry classes. While CPHS has good initiative in academics they do a poorer job in almost every other aspect. Many of the non-magnet counselors (only ever encountered non-magnet) never answer their emails or are never in their offices, the campus is dirty with trash and writings on the bathroom stalls, and they lack a sense of urgency with student complaints (about other students/teachers/campus. There is very little accessibility for those who require a wheelchair apart from the one(maybe two) elevator/s on campus. Students are rowdy, ill-mannered, and have very little desire to learn; many classes get interrupted by a student who complains or tries to be funny in a disrespectful manner. Recently, mirrors have been removed from bathroom stalls in an alleged attempt to keep students in classes in the morning/during class time but to no avail students still linger in the bathroom and around campus.

Do not recommend this school at all! My child has been here from K-5 (as a gifted student) and the school has progressively gone down academically. The principal seems to be here to cash his check and is not interested whatsoever in the student's or parent's opinions. But don't bring that up to him because he will belittle you. There's no sense of community, aside from a few teachers who go the full mile for students.