21075 Redwood Ln
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

If your family is looking for a nurturing academic environment that fosters a love of learning, look elsewhere. This school is a mechanistic learning factory trying to churn out graduates. The counsellors do very little to look out for the mental health impacts this approach has on students. Some of the teachers create a cliquey atmosphere and alienate the kids who don't fit their preferred social profile. Within a year our child has plummeted from a high-achieving A+ student to someone who is now struggling to even get passing grades. This is while continuing to flourish in their extracurriculars external to the school. We regret sending our child to La Paz Intermediate.

Del Lago is a great school with a supportive, awesome community. Also, there are many wonderful activities for families!

My kid is Senior in upcoming year. The experience I have in the past three years has been frustration from the school administrations.They are non-responsive to parent's communications and would not work with the parents. Despite the great promises and "care about our students" talk in every school meets, there's no follow through. The courses offered are limited and my kid had to "self-studied" on few subjects in order to full-fill the requirements because the courses are not offered while they are commonly available at other schools. The students coming out of the school are ill-prepared and poorly competitive when applying for colleges. Above all, the school would not work with parents and listen to parents. They post on social media for school announcements instead of the proper channels such as emails. Parents get silent treatments if they want to engage with school. There were few instances of school shut-down last year due to violent near by and getting information from school were impossible. I would NOT mess up some other parent's kid by recommending to this school!