4174 Mount Vernon Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90008

I was very diappointed. Mr Pounders helped, cares and tutored.

My sister went here for a year. The emotional trauma she went through from the students themselves and at the hands of the staff affected her for the rest of her middle school years. She is special needs and her teachers did absolutely nothing for her. They would give her packets printed off of Google and would never answer her questions or show her the lectures on subjects. Students would attempt to throw water on her hearing aids and staff never attempted to discipline them. Don’t bring your child here.

I had two children that went to this school so let me just say please do not let the high test scores fool you! This school is a mess. After COVID teachers were scarce. Classrooms were bonded together with substitutes then they would just up and leave but let’s start with supervision. This school does not only have no support staff to make sure children are safe the kids walk in and out and do whatever they want. There was group vapping in the bathroom. No announcement or anti-drug actions sent home or given to the kids. Children “missing” for an hour on campus. Fighting in the bathrooms and being inappropriate. Teachers with no classroom management so then all the kids are now acting out. The principal might as well be a ghost because your not gonna see him. Social-emotional… nothing special done on the 1st day of school. Nothing special for graduating kids unless parents do it. No anti drug rallies or anti bullying group discussions. The 5th and 6th graders bully the kinders. A mess. All info comes last minute. If your child is going to win an award they do not even tell you. You miss core memories with your child. Main office nobody knows anything except how to mark your kid tardy. School is dirty. Trash all over the place. Lunch time is MESS! And it’s just lunch but so unorganized! Especially for kindergarten. Parent involvement is hard to get because there is no investment made from the school. Parents are not encouraged to help, they are asked to help last minute and then if an event is cancelled they will not even tell you! After buying a ton of uniforms you see it’s not enforced AT ALL! The magnet testing person is rude and discouraged the children publicly. When there is a struggling class they do not know how to manage it and help the children. Staff does not care. Good things- more programs then most schools in the area. Music, chorus, great art teacher, etc. FLI is a great program with good teachers. All the arts are nice and a few teachers care but most are subs or new to teaching. The school is large and has a lot of wasted land. No garden etc.

I am a black parent of a child who was attending Crenshaw H.S. This is an under performing school that needs to be shut down. The inner city need vouchers. They need to shut down this school for failing students in both math and English. People, we need to wake up...we are and should not be victims of our own government institutions!!!!!