4858 Devonshire Place
Santa Rosa, CA 95405

Slater is a great school. They offer a varied academic schedule as well as zero period for students wanting to take an extra elective. There are many clubs and after school sports and activities for the students. The principal and staff are great.

I am a student in my Sophmore year and have wished to transfer almost the entirety of both years. The school smells of vape and marijuana constantly, and there have been several students getting drunk and high on campus. I am physically disabled, and, although I am personally able to traverse campus easily, it sometimes feels as if the school has done the bare minimum to be accessible. The SpecialED program is horrendous from what I've seen. A few of the staff in it have absolutely zero discipline and just allow the students to get away with anything unless the behavior reported to a different staff member via student.The other students are definitely the main issue in my experience. The classrooms are basically run by them. You can't go a single class without hearing slurs being thrown around or some sort of joke about sexual assault or "being spED" or just general disrespect to teachers and staff. There have been so many students who just straight up refuse basic requests from the teacher to their face. The bullying is rarely physical but there is plenty of it to and from both staff and students.Most of the teachers are fine, if not really good. I loved Ms. Peakes and Mrs. Clark and respect most of the other teachers I have had. Despite that, there is a good portion of teachers that are very passive aggressive or just straight up rude and will yell and curse every class... though with how some students act, I can't entirely blame them. The substitutes are AWFUL; my freshman year had at least 6 subs that had to be fired due to racism or showing adult content. The teachers/staff are very often absent; we've had waves of up to 24 or more absent around every month. Althought I believe these staff deserve breaks and sick days, the substitutes don't teach and if they aren't on their phone, they're probably being offensive.Overall, the school feels very unprofessional and unaccepting, mostly due to students, and the teachers are very poorly funded (especially classes like Ceramics).

Our daughter has attended Spring Creek for two years. She has had two very caring and nurturing teachers who have helped her grow both academically and socially. Principal Shawne Kearney is very engaged as is the Parent Teacher Association. Our daughter loves going to school and is very proud to be a Spring Creek Cheetah. There is a strong focus on the social/emotional side of learning as well as academics. They are teaching the whole student and it shows in interactions across campus. Spring Creek is a special place for families.

We reached out to Hannah Bates (principal) on 8/20/2025 in regards to transferring our child out of their assigned school to this campus. At the time, we had concerns over the Junior High merging with the Highschool. We were told that there were 10 students on the wait-list already, but she stressed that hardly any of the people she had reached out to, wanted to remove their now established kids from their current campuses. So the chances seemed pretty likely that we'd get our child in, she made it seem very promising. They sent us a registration packet, we returned it within an hour. Today is 9/9/2025. I have since reached out to Hannah to see what the current status is, and gotten no response back. I can now see why families are opting to not send their children there, after all. Why would I send my child to a campus where the Principal can't even respond to messages, or follow-up with any questions we may have? Such incredible negligence. No thanks, we'll take our chances on the other campus. She has zero sense of urgency. Beware.