3791 State St #E
Santa Barbara, CA 93105

As a teacher and parent of three children who attended Vieja Valley K-6, I can confidently say that it is a school that you would ABSOLUTELY want your children to learn and grow in through their elementary school years. The staff loves each other as family and that permeates through to the love they have for families that attend. The school is fairly diverse and that diversity is a strength of the school. My kids felt safe and I feel valued as a staff member and stakeholder.

I would definitely not recommend sending your children here. There has been more than one incidents here. Recent one affected my sibling. She was harmed and threatened. Coming from a public safety family and in public safety I am highly disappointed in the administration. La Colina Admin failed at preventing something that shouldn’t have occurred and should have been resolved and watched. We met with La Colina Admin several times over this past year to prevent anything from happening. They are mandatory mandators and did not call police. Instead I contacted family in law enforcement and we took it into our hands. La Colina does not report when fights happen on campus, they do their own internal investigation. They tend to hide it so that they get more kids to come there and they receive their yearly grant money. This incident was uncalled for and 100% preventable.