Cesar Chavez Elementary School

As a substitute teacher in this district, I can tell you the teachers at this school are dedicate to the students, and do as much as they can to get them to succeed, but todays students just want to talk. talk, talk, talk.....There is very little parent involvement in the education of the children, and what is important to the parent, is what is important to the child. And do you know it is a state law that you can not expel a student? Can you imagine what the borderline student is saying to himself when he sees a child who doesn't work, disrupts the class, and is doing what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and there are no consequences for his actions. Maybe, "Why don't I do the same thing. It looks like fun'. You who judge teachers and their effectiveness, try teaching for a month, better yet, if you are a man, send your wife for that month, they treat women different men.

The teachers are attentive and thorough. They amaze me at the lengths they go for their students to learn. And, the efforts made to encourage good social skills.

This school is terrible! I had my daughter in the Dual language program because when teachers speak about it, they make it sound so amazing so of course I wanted my kid apart of that...well I was truly disappointed with this school. Not only are the principals too busy to ever speak with a parent but the teacher doesn’t even notice that she hasn’t graded weeks of competed homework in a child’s backpack. Overall I did try and give the school benefit of the doubt when everyone told me to stay away but this school made all those warnings valid. I would never recommend this school and I feel that they only brought the program to only this school to give them more funding since I’m sure parents want to stay as far away from this school as possible.

Alpha is in a low income area, and the school staff is very welcoming.

One of the best elementary schools in Madera!

This school was very different from any other school I had ever been too the teachers cared and at lunch time we had a taco truck with good food and it was center for a lot of my memories at this amazing school. my math teacher was a great guy Mr. Sanchez I will not forget him he really taught me math effectively. I first went to this school my 2nd half of my 9th grade year and left after my jr year in those years i made good memories.

MCIA has helped my grandchild a lot by providing a flexible schedule, excellent teachers, and the encouragement she needs. They provide a positive environment for her to gain the education she needs to succeed in life but without the social difficulties and negatives she was experiencing at her previous school.