8312 Snowbird Dr
Huntington Beach, CA 92646

The majority of the bullying was resolved from my experience. and the majority of my teachers were nice, and understanding over outside-of-school situations. I just wish the students were a bit nicer to others instead of judging them for what they like or dress like.

This school USE to be really good. My two oldest children attended this school for all grades, K-5. By the time my oldest was in 5th grade she was being bullied, the teachers and school have no preventive measure against this but it resulted in her having to work through a ton of mental health issues and we had to switch her middle schools because of this bully. A teacher called me to inform me that my child was speaking ill of her and using foul language (at recess to another student), when I asked the teacher if they had spoken to my child yet to confirm this was true, their response was "No." The teacher then proceeded to back track because they knew they were out of line and they should have spoken to my child, then reached out to me if it was not being handled correctly or to inform of the situation/consequence. Lastly, my children have seen other children bring vapes, USE the vapes at recess, bring knives and NOTHING happened to those children UNTIL it was their 5th offense so they have no desire to protect the children from other children who break the rules repeatedly! The principal always looks mean, teaches his staff to be rude and condensing to parents and doesn't handle anything that is required of him to be an effective principal. He is not approachable and the communication with this school is terrible! All the good teachers have left this school, minus 1-2. Most of the teachers are very short tempered with the kids, even yelling at them multiple times a day. My children and their friends would tell me who they hoped NOT to get the next grade because of this. I have had to sit a teacher down and tell her not to speak to my child that way and she lost ALL trust with my child because of how this teacher behaved and how poorly they knew how to regulate their emotions with these small children. Now that my children are out of this school they are THRIVING! Getting straight A's and actually excited for school! Before they never looked forward and never wanted to go to school and struggling in ALL areas of academic as well. Which shows how much these teachers do not care for these children. The younger of the 2, was getting D's and F's on tests, the teacher never scheduled a call with me to discuss the issue, not even an email! I had to reach out, after about 4 tests they totally failed and had to ask the teacher what we should do to help. The response was very short & generic which never helped my child succeed. DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE!

I'm alumni from 80s. The school has certainly fallen in terms of whom it hires. So much bloat in staff. The AD is a joke and leaves at noon everyday yet I am sure collects a full paycheck. The Asst Principals are almost 1/2 dozen and work as hard as old Twitter employees before Elon Musk bought the place. The teachers aren't the problem here though they aren't half bad just a little bit less intelligent than their predecessors. They give loads of homework in lieu of actual teaching the students how to think. The place is way different than it used to be in terms of sports because the AD has clearly made many bad decisions and just cares about his pension and nothing else. A great place to go if you're woke and you want your kids to work at Starbucks.