Donaldson Way Elementary School

I was a student at Dan Mini Elementary School from kindergarden to the 6th grade. I had the most amazing Teachers. It was a excellent School back then as I am sure it still is . The teachers cared about us as a Individual, Took the time to spend with each one of us. They cared about our home life. We had a camp callled Camp Gawalla. It was a great time and made The most wonderful memories.

I attended this school back in my K-2 grade years during 2000. This school brings a lot of lovely memories to me and their staff are wonderful. I miss this place!

When I was a student her I learned that I can't be the best without asking for help at times that I need to here in loma vista it felt like family.

I had to remove both my kids from Napa Junction due to lack of care and concern for my kids overall education. The principal was more concerned about her social status than my children’s wellbeing and education! I fought tooth and nail with the school & NVUSD to get my children’s the help and support an entire school year but they denied my children support and even proper staff and made it look like they were “on paper” but myself, other parents and even aids we’re reporting these issues, but it wasn’t a priority to them. Since I’ve pulled my children out of NVUSD it has been night and day and I wish I did so sooner!

I'm a parent/volunteer yard duty at Canyon Oaks. It may be just luck, but my son has had amazing teachers for the 3 years he's attended. They've helped him with his struggles and I've seen real improvement. As a yard duty, I interact with nearly all the students. The administration's guidance for how we guide behavior is refreshing, which is focused on positive reinforcement and social/emotional learning.

Vallejo school district is notoriously bad in terms of public schools scores. There are not many choices for parents in this area and some other private schools are overcrowded. The CBCA school is hidden gem and I'm glad we found it when moved to Vallejo two years ago. We highly appreciate small classes (3-4 combined grade class has 11 kids) where teacher can dedicate enough time to each student. Curriculum is pretty strong as far as I can judge by 3rd and 4th grades. And we're up to speed paying attention to serious home work. Principal and teachers are doing great job, tremendous respect to them! And by the way speaking of tuition cost it's MUCH lower than average.