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San Diego, CA 92130

As comments below, although it is a nice school, the school isn't focused in student participation and academic learning. Also, you need to make rather large amount of donations for running STEM programs . It's not mandatory but you know how it is... Doesn't have GATE program for kids who are ahead of their age level, and they tell us it's because all of our kids are gifted! A lot of ESL or ELD kids in school, and they tend to put them together into the same class, which I don't think is a good idea to let them learn English quickly. But, they say it's to promote education according to their learning skills. Some teachers are good but others don't seem to care much. Too many substitute teacher days. Teachers are absent frequently without notice, and you have to find it out from you kid.

Our experience with this school was very bad. The teacher always treated my daughter badly in front of her friends, blaming her. We complained to the administration but they protected her and did not want to communicate with us. My daughter was bullied all year by the teacher and students. It is a school full of racism. The teachers want a perfect student, there is no effort from them. Bad administration and arrogant and rude students.

This school silences and suspends students who support ice.

Coming from a former student, PLEASE do not send your kids here. I went here for a year and it was by far the worst experience I've had among any of the schools I've attended. During the year I was there, multiple teachers made hateful, sometimes even racist and homophobic comments towards students in my classes, admin did virtually nothing about people's concerns, and the quality of education and food was very poor. I specifically remember an incident in which there were threats made and admin assured everyone that nothing was wrong only for the school to go on lockdown a few days later. The police showed up to search everyone and parents were given zero communication for upwards of an hour about the wellbeing of their kids. This happened at the end of the day and I don't think they let anybody go until around 5pm, and my mom was waiting outside for over an hour with no idea why I wasn't leaving.PE Class was also bad, I remember coming home from PE class often with a bruised spine because the teachers had us doing upwards of 50 curl-ups on the concrete pavement every class, and we spent maybe 30 minutes/class playing actual PE games. In general I often found the content I was learning across all classes to be too easy and there was a lack of challenging work, even in honors classes. The campus security/staff seemed overly focused on the wrong issues while letting bigger things slide (For example, I got punished multiple times using my phone for legitimate reasons, and they made having no phones a huge deal. On occasion, I also saw staff members looking through the cracks of occupied bathroom stalls to check if people were using their phones.Having said all this, it's been a couple years since my time here, and I hope that with the changes in admin over time, things have changed, but from my experience there, your kid is infinitely better off at Pacific Trails.