41814 30th St W
Palmdale, CA 93551

During my four years of attending Lancaster High School, I could say I've had quite an interesting experience. The teachers here are very hit-or-miss. The adults aren't exactly what I'd deem as "professional'. It is clear a lot of adults try to be buddy-buddy with some students. A lot of teachers rub me the wrong way with how "comfortable" they want to be with certain students. We have experienced full-blown unprofessional behavior from a teacher acting like a kid who was messing with my injured friend who denied her a wheelchair, bullied her, and harassed us the whole time during a field trip. She talked to her teacher and they planned to accommodate her but the chaperone denied this and straight up bullied her for enjoyment because he thought it was hilarious to see a teenage girl in pain getting bullied. It was truly sad to see and genuinely boiled my blood. We planned to go to administration about it but she was so broken down from the situation she didn't want to talk about it.This school is ravaged by drugs and violence. My first year or year back from COVID, all the kids were violent and fights were about an everyday occurrence. Hearing about students overdosing isn't uncommon and hearing about violent beatdowns and people getting jumped isn't out of the ordinary.There was a literal race war that occurred during school that required large crowd control, air support, and multiple police units to subdue the giant fight.There was a fake shooting where our whole school went on lockdown and we were getting cleared by officers, some at gunpoint, and trying to go home afterward was a mess.There was a student who threatened to commit violent crimes with proof of weapons and graphic media but the school administration said "We can't do anything unless they act". We had to attend school and class with this student and hope they didn't go through with their threats so the school would finally remove him.The school is nasty but the students are to blame for that. The bathrooms are a genuine biohazard. I've seen sanitary items on walls and other vile objects laying about. If you take extra classes you are separated from the general population and you get to be with more students and teachers who care about what they do, but most are mediocre or straight or shouldn't be teaching, or around kids.Overall, I've experienced some crazy stuff and the people here are a part of the problem, but if you take special classes or activities it's not all bad.

Teachers are not helpful and are on their phones, the dress code is a problem they need to adress since they don't apply it to the teachers as well, and the food is either rotten, undercooked, and inedible.

I've had nothing but issues with their dismissal. Has to be the worst organization I've ever experienced, it's a complete joke. Kids wander off daily, and their excuse, "we just have so many children to release". Direct from a teacher I complained to. I told her my son had been walking to the other side of the school for 2 weeks because that's where I park. "It's the first time I catch it", so for 2 weeks he went unnoticed. 2Nd grade kid,smh, I've never complained about a school so much as I have with this one. Very disappointed,and my youngest just started kindergarten, already considering taking both to another school. With every issue I've had and complained to someone I've gotten no valid excuse,only apologies. I want the issue corrected, I'm tired of apologies. Other than their dismissal disasters,I guess they have somewhat of a bully problem. Both my sons have complained about other classmates pushing them or grabbing them. What is the point of raising my sons right and being respectful if they're going to be disrespected themselves? There's only so many times they can tell the teacher before I have to tell them to defend themselves, which is exactly what I've been telling them to do.It has been the worst school my boys have ever attended.

Excellent school! The principals are amazing and do their absolute best to know each and every child individually. The teachers care about their students and make themselves easily available to contact them if ever I had a comment, question or concern. The school promotes school spirit and unity and is extremely clean and well kept. I feel safe sending my student there and feel that she is receiving a great education.