24001 Muirlands Blvd #373
Lake Forest, CA 92630

My daughter is a Sophomore at El Toro High School and it has been an amazing experience. She loves it, her classes are challenging, her teachers obviously care, her friends are polite and nice. The opportunity to get involved is abundant there seems to be a sport, club, or extracurricular program for just about every kid's interest. We have been attending the football games and I am so glad there is so much school spirit. The kids love going to games and jump into the dress up days. My daughter is part of Pep Squad, Best Buddies Club, Sunset Club, and ASB and I have been impressed with how kind the Juniors and Seniors are to the younger kids. As well as have observed these kids with all of the classes and they are stand-up kids. We have only had one issue with a teacher, so far and that was last year during COVID but other then that it has been great. Overall I have been impressed with the quality of education and also the transparency on how she is doing with the Aeries site as well as the proactive communications that they send out. For the parents who said they didn't know their kids were doing bad... Umm how is that possible? All of the teachers post the grades on every project, test, quiz and piece of homework. As well as you have transparency to what upcoming work the kids have.

This school fails in regards to diversity, for the school has a student body that is mostly Hispanic. I am not sure what happened to the other demographics, but they have seemed to move onto to other choices in education. Nevertheless, my nephew went to kindergarten here. The teacher was fine at educating, and he progressed well in his studies, but he was one of only a couple non-Hispanic kids, and the parents were downright hostile because he is white. He invited all of the kids to his birthday party (despite never being invited to any of theirs), and was told outright from the other kids that their moms wouldn't let them go to the party. So, here we have a heartbroken 5 year old who has been told that the other kids aren't allowed to be his friend. It's a horrible situation and the school is aware of it, but won't do anything for fear of offending the Hispanic families. As I mentioned, the teacher (Mrs. Gray) was great and did her best despite the student body and administrative support. The only saving grace is that my nephew and his family will be moved into their new home and he will be attending a new school that has a higher score and a more diverse student body. Therefore, from what I witnessed and was told by my nephew, brother and sister-in-law, if your child is not Hispanic, prepare them to be the outcast socially. Hence, I can't recommend this school at this time!

Our son received great support from the teachers and administrators. The STEAM program is the main reason we sent our son here. We were impressed on the different assignments he received. He loves the school and we appreciate how hard the teachers worked especially during distance learning.