Cedarwood Elementary School

I've been involved in 5 school districts in this area and dozens of elementary schools. I can honestly say, I have been impressed with our 4+ years at Dry Creek elementary. The school administration, teachers, and staff, all put in a noticable amount of effort in to provide a positive environment for students to grow both academically, physically, and socially. There's an impressive variety of activities for students to participate in. Chess club, student council, cultural events, sports, and many family oriented dances, movie nights, and an annual carnival. Every student has several opportunities to try new things. Parents can be as involved, or not involved, as they choose. The homework load has been low. Usually, the homework is an online program at the students individual level, a small amount of review, or any work that was not completed in class. For our family, it has not be an inordinate amount of homework. The best thing is that this school is always trying to improve. No school is perfect, every student has different talents and challenges, but this school does a great job helping students do their best.

This school has low standards and the students are rude to the other students. There is no communication with this school to the parents. Awful school.

I went here for 2nd semester of my sixth grade year, I had a terrible experience at my old school and this school changed everything for me. Some kids may be mean but the teachers are great and the current principal is great I’ve heard.

Century is a wonderful school with wonderful staff.

My daughter was unhappy here. Never enough time for her to eat her lunch. She was picked on by a few other kids. And she was never intested in sports which this school seems to value. We look forward to putting her back in the Fresno district where she was never bullied!

This school is an absolute joke. Clovis Unified should be ashamed of who they picked to lead this school. The GIS, Shannon Tyson, does the bare minimum when investigating ongoing issues at the school. She does not notify parents of updates until the parent confronts her. The front desk staff are incredibly rude when answering the phones. The school nurse, Virginia Espinoza, is one of the most unprofessional “nurses”. Corrine Folmer should be embarrassed by how this school’s staff operates.

My kids have been enrolled here since 2019. We had an amazing upgrade with Principal since they moved Dr Vue to the district office and brought in Mrs Torres. She truly loves the kids and cares about their safety as well as creating fun experiences to give them lifetime memories. My son is finishing his 6th grade year and has had an amazing education here. My only negative comment would be that they don’t acknowledge academic awards during school awards, they just hand them certificates for good grades in the classroom. It would be nice to acknowledge hard work in front of everyone instead of only acknowledging behavioral awards. With that being said it would also be nice if K-3rd were allowed to give more awards. They are limited to only 2 kids per award which is kind of a smack in the face to kids who are always performing well and they don’t always get acknowledged for it. I’m not an “everyone gets an award” parent but I do believe if the kids are doing what is expected of them they deserve the acknowledgement to reinforce the positive behavior. We are moving out of state at the end of this school year though because we can see the insanity of CA starting to creep into our little corner of Clovis. I also do not want to send my kids to Clark for 7th/8th grade. Overall my kids have done amazing here and their favorite teachers have been Mr Brown (5th grade) and Mrs Alaman (2nd grade, both of my kids have been blessed to be in her class).