River View Drive
San Jose, CA 95111

As a middle school student attending the STEM program at this school, the school and the staff engage very much with the students and try their hardest to learn about them. Although test scores aren’t very good due to the rise of Covid-19, the staff try their best to encourage the students to focus more by having events for each month. The school has improved very much since the beginning and I feel like stuff can improve but mostly everything that is bad comes from the environment students create from one another.

Great middle school for my two kids. They learned a lot and was supported by the staff throughout the journey. Parents are very involved and the school encourages that .

In my experience the teachers are very nice, helpful, and understanding of students' education and well-being. It very much depends on the people you hang out with or the class that you're in that determines excitement/enthusiasm about what is being learned and I've heard many mixed reviews from other students, so I can't speak for the whole student population for the better or worse. I've also heard mixed reviews about the counselors but I've had nothing but good experiences with them myself. There are regular calls, meetings, and other opportunities for family engagement, and accommodations are made for students with both mental and physical disabilities. I'm not exactly what to say about safety: I've never felt unsafe, and I've never seen or known someone to take a weapon to school (apart from the occasional accidental pocket knife), but fights aren't too infrequent (maybe 1-2/month, but I don't know, and I don't know what the average is). Just don't go around antagonizing people or calling others offensive or racist slurs and you should be okay; the general population is patient and understanding, but everyone has a limit. Overall this is a pretty good school with a neutral-positive environment, many good teachers, good programs, and lots of student resources.