Pacific Ridge School

As former students we believe that this school is trying to gaslight their students into believing the narrative that staff and administrators believe is “correct” and that only. Anything but what is taught is shut down faster than students can share their viewpoint. Students are taught that individual opinions are not welcome which teaches them to be incapable of forming their own unique opinions throughout their young adult lives. Not to mention how the teachers, admin, staff, and students will collectively harass your child. If that’s not enough for you the curriculum is devoid of all educational content and leaves alumni completely unprepared for college level courses, particularly in the science department. Middle schoolers are aggressively indoctrinated with liberal agendas and schooled on gender and sexuality rather than the summary of the book they read in social studies! If you want to best prepare your child for the real world we recommend you look elsewhere!!!!

It just gets worse and worse each year. This school doesn't educate...it INDOCTRINATES. I tutor students from PRS as well as other schools in the area. PRS isn't just "woke"...they are cramming gallons of metaphorical coffee down the throats of their students. 7th graders being drilled on gender theory? Really? How about just teach them tolerance and be satisfied with that? Maybe have them read To Kill a Mockingbird? But no, they have to take a heavy-handed approach that "teaches" students the "correct" way to see the world. How about teaching them HOW to think, read, write, do math instead of focusing on WHAT you want them to parrot back to please their hand-selected progressive teachers, many of whom have little experience in the classroom, by the way. Just sad to see how far this place has sunk since it first began as an attempt to offer a quality private school alternative in North county. Just a complete waste of money and A LOT of money at that.

My daughter attended this school and experienced many major issues. For the last 2 years of her time at the school she was constantly bullied and harassed and the school refused to acknowledge the problem. She also was held back in one class and no matter how hard we tried to have her take a placement test they wouldn’t even give her a chance to do so.Every positive aspect this school advertises is a lie, you will pay $40k for a damaging experience.

Extremely disappointed with my experience at PRS. I attended this school for two years and dealt with continuous bullying and sexual harassment from other students. I was harassed at school, online and even had a voicemail leaving me a death threat. Nothing was done about this despite bringing it up to the head of school multiple times. Not only that, but their mothers also harassed me and my parents as a result of these rumors. My grades suffered as a result and I fell into a serious depression. The perpetrators were never reprimanded due to their ties to founding members and large financial contributions. I never spoke about my experience and chose to leave the school instead. My academic performance thrived upon leaving and attending public school instead. I am writing this review after seeing that PRS claims to handle bullying immediately. This could not be further from the truth. To add to my horrible experience here, the teachers also get involved with rumors at this school and will treat you badly as a result. There is a serious problem with cliques here. PRS lacks diversity and the head of school is a victim blamer.

Besides the obvious problem with an extremely liberal bias that is forced upon the students, my main complaint is that they have dumbed down both the math and science curricula to the point where they are putting their students at a disadvantage when they get to college. PRS students learn NO chemistry. The 9th and 10th grade mish-mosh science curriculum is devoid of any real content. My older child took 1st year chemistry in college and was forced to use tutors because he knew nothing compared to his peers. This school insisted on dispensing with textbooks because they were so confident they could design their own curricula. Problem is their young, often inexperienced teachers have no clue what they are doing. Couple with the influx of under-prepared students who bog things down and teachers who don't want to fail anyone, students learn nothing. Similar with social studies, although I will give them a little credit for trying to use primary sources.