3913 Eminence St
Dublin, CA 94568

This school had changed my life when I attended it. I did a complete 180 and I am very grateful of this school. The staff are friendly and caring and the school makes students feel like we are a big family. I graduated in 2008 with the spirit award and more credits than I needed. Thank you Valley High staff for everything. Sincerely, Angelena Branch

This school has gone extremely downhill. Way too competitive and the staff and teachers are not helpful. Just go to Wells or better avoid the district.

This review is for minority parents - by which I mean non-asian parents. My child attended Kolb a few years ago and I've struggled with my nagging feeling ever since that the school is prejudiced against non-asian kids, but when I saw this site added an equity overview, I decided to share. This is my experience: Me and my husband (white and hispanic) have advanced degrees from elite schools and have been IQ tested in the 99th%. We got excellent grades and test scores. So it surprised me when my child was falling behind at Kolb. I got much more involved in the classroom, observing the classes and homework. My child would just stare at the wall (clearly, to me, bored to tears). When I met the teacher they would say that my child was in the 60th% which was "doing good." I expressed my concern, given my child's potential. The teacher said that just because we were smart did not mean my child was too, and would hyperfocus on things that culturally express intelligence in the asian community: like being neat or high achieving. I began to suspect they meant "doing good for a non-asian kid" and the evidence of, frankly, prejudice kept mounting: - the teachers and students would call my child the wrong name (the name of the other only "white" kid in class, even though they look nothing alike). My child would be disciplined because multiple witnesses had seen my child get physical with someone - something my child has never done or been accused of before or since, but which the one other white kid did. One Mom even asked if me and the only other white mom were sisters (she's a foot taller than me and looks nothing like me). The mom insisted that "we all thought so." I have no problem being in the minority - I'm a woman in a field that is 98% male - but it angered me that my child was limited by it. i finally rearranged my career to take my child out of school and sought out online instruction. My "not necessarily smart too" kid has now been accepted to an ultra-elite middle school - which requires an IQ test of 145+ - and recently scored a 1280/1600 on the SAT at 11 years old - a 99.99th% score for their age - thanks to being taught according to actual ability, not a perception of what kids who look like us are capable of. If you look at the equity overview on this site, you'll see Kolb has _much_ lower test scores and academic progress for non-asian students. Maybe all the non-asian kids are just dumber.. or maybe they are just treated that way, like my child.