515 S Mcdowell Boulevard
Petaluma, CA 94954

La Tercera is a fantastic school. The STEM program offers students opportunities to think like a scientist not only in the science lab and Maker Space settings, but from a social/emotional perspective too. If student conflict arises, teachers, classified employees, or the principal will work together with students to address the matter at hand. Solutions include immediate intervention to discuss the actions that lead to conflict, in addition to "Think Sheets" which provide students the opportunity to step outside of themselves and participate in self-reflection. The school also focuses on community engagement with events like Family Dance Night, Scavenger Hunts, Engineering Night, as well as other great activities. Field trips are fun and educational with trips to museums, Gold Country, and more as they relate to STEM. Additionally, PE, art and music education are included in the the learning experience. Lastly, the site practices inclusion, ensuring a welcoming atmosphere for students in the special education program. From my experience, for the last 7 years, La Tercera has been impactful and instrumental in creating a successful learning environment for its students.

In my experience as a parent of a child with a disability this is not the right place. There are some good teachers that really care and have empathy. Bullying and sexual harassment is a BIG issue at Casa, they will ask the student to fill out a "report" of the incident but often times this so called "incident report" gets swept under the rug. The district changes administration often there is not a strong leadership. They offer a period called: Advisory this period is at the end of the school day it is meant to serve as study time or homework time but often times students cut during this time and get out and wonder around school or simply leave campus, a total waste of resources. School is overcrowded, the teacher ratio per student is 30 to 32 students per teacher with some teachers having a teacher aid others do not have any help.

I would not recommend this school, multiple kids carry drugs and smoke at school and crafty harmful things around, they give too much homework to my daughter and half of the time she’s complaining about her some of her teacher are treating her like trash probably because of her race, always complaining about people cussing and the principal does not care about anything except for if they’re doing as little as skipping class, when I went for back to school night everything looked dirty and gross so I have already switched my daughter out but I would NOT recommend