Baird Rd
Santa rosa, CA 95409

Don’t pay attention to the bad reviews! This school is totally different than it was a few years ago. The teaching and academics have always been great, but the behavior did go downhill with a few poor administrators. My son has a great two years and is excelling in high school.

Homework no good me very much sad ):

The teachers at Binkley are amazing and dedicated and the families are involved! It’s overall a good school, however if you ever have to work with/deal with the principal that’s when there are issues. She behaves/ says things to students one way and does a 180 in front of and to parents. She is extremely disingenuous no matter how hard (and she tries very hard) to portray something else. I don’t believe the students come first for her, she is more interested in looking for the easy way out for herself. Sadly she has even been caught in many lies etc. I am not the type to leave these reviews, and again the teachers are lovely overall but she is a huge deficit for this school. We had an amazing principal before and the difference between the two is stark!

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.