Willow Academy

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.

We have spent a whole year here at Jefferson since boundary changes sent us from Clovis Elementary to here! We are unsatisfied with the year the kids have had. Kids here are rude and know more than kids their age should know. My kids have not made any best friends this year because they are so much different than the kids here. Fitting in has been terrible. Unfortunately we will likely have to buy a new house like the other reviews stated since they aren’t accepting transfers back to the school we were at before. My kids and myself are more than disappointed after giving this school entire year!!! The teachers are great but they were learning way more stuff at their old school. I feel my kids staying at this school will be behind once junior high hits.

The school is very dirty and the students are able to do whatever they want and the teachers and principals and staffs don't care then ppl throw food fight bully each other and say racist slurs even the teachers and principals then the students yell at teachers and beat up other students DON'T RECOMMEND NEVER COME HERE WITH YOUR KID

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 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).