Highlands Academy

This school is really bad. The bathrooms are a mess, the teachers are bad at motivating kids to teach, the students barely learn, and the staff hates their jobs. My experience with the school is horrible. My mom tried to call the school, they didn't answer or call my mom back. When I got Covid, I didn't know that I had to get a packet of work, so when I got back, I was the one that got in trouble. I hate this school, but this school can't ba saved.

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Zemorah Christian Academy in Lower Lake, CA. This will be my son 2nd year attending and my daughters 1st year. I have had the best exprience here. The curriculum is great, the student to teacher ratio is even better. Very warm friendly and welcoming enviroment. Not only are they getting the education they deserve but a Christian education at that!!!

Probably the worst and most horribly run school ever made, thank god this abomination was shut down. In 8 years there were at least 3 different sets of Principles and Vice Principals. There was no structure or oversight for a lot of the curriculum that was taught by many of the teachers, leading some teachers to not actually ever teach or lecture whatsoever, and just give you online assignments as their way of teaching. I was often told by one that I had for 3 years, to "look it up" whenever I had a question about the subject matter we had an assignment on. Very sad to be acting like this as a teacher towards an eager student asking to learn in order to do their assignment. They also did not care about bullying, there are no consequences, and they didn't want to expel students for doing things worthy of so because it would "make their statistics look bad". My first year here, the first year they opened, they didn't have a math teacher, and our school counselor had to fill in!! Almost halfway through the school year he mentioned that he had not gotten paid yet. They would also claim that if you switched schools, you "can't switch back" because it's a "special school", and yet probably had to allow every student who wanted to because it's a public school. This is not an actual professional trade or private school, but they really wanted to act like it. They also forced highschool students to either choose a college or medical path and were told we had to do at least one or both in order to get a diploma, and yet those who somehow slipped through the cracks by dropping college classes and medical internships while everyone else worked for it were still allowed to graduate, and there was no reason given for this inconsistency when it was asked about. There were so many mistakes within the administration of this school and they did not prioritize the students whatsoever.