Oxford Preparatory Academy - South Orange County

This is such a fantastic elementary school. The Chancellor is absolutely wonderful, and in general, the teachers are experienced, supportive, and have high expectations for all students. The level of education the kids are receiving is top-notch. The school also focuses heavily on character development and positive behavior, and offers lots of fun clubs for kids after school. Highly recommend it for kids at all levels!

The only thing worse than the children's appalling behavior is the staff's. Yes, it was shocking to hear about lack of yard supervision, backpacks in toilets, young children's obscene language, violence, and the rate at which they occurred, but when we observed staff condoning the language and vandalism, and YELLING AT PARENTS, it became a game of survival with a focus on getting out of there. Administration showed no remorse. It seems to be a culture that starts at the top.

Racist, sexist, homophobic entitled culture. administration looked the other way when multiple students were being bullied. Victim-blaming, food thrown at students, slurs, racist language in classes, student had his personal novels ripped up, books were deliberately knocked off tables. School had a problem with "don't be homophobic" messages but students using the n word in classroom was allowed. Be warned that this school gives lip service to kindness, but allows the worst kind of bullying. When I complained about bullying, there was absolutely NO follow-up with me as one of the parents whose kids reported the bullying. The bathrooms were disgusting and the language elective class (Spanish) was overcrowded (60 kids crammed into one classroom, not enough seats. etc.} This charter school is a MESS. The only point of view the administration wants to hear about is the parents who want a private school without paying for it. The parents park in residents' driveways, make u-turns in the middle of the street during the busy pick-up/drop-off times, pick their kids up in the middle of the road, walk down the middle of the road during busy times. They don't slow down for pedestrians, are rude to residents, jay-walk, and generally, do whatever they want, regardless of safety and traffic laws. They did have a good response to COVID and the distance learning and most of the teachers are not the problem. It's the senior administration.

I began working at this school as an SLP via tele-therapy late last school year but was not impressed with the leadership especially the special education leadership. I was supervised by a school psychologist who was not familiar with most speech and language testing procedures and explained to me that they can place a child in special ed if the team thinks the student needs it even though the student does not qualify as special ed on formal assessments. This is contrary to American Speech and Hearing Association Ethics and special education law.I was brought in to provide missed IEP speech and language service minutes for students. There was another SLP working tele-therapy who was case-managing and supervising two slpa's on two campuses for 115 students. She was working up to 60 hours per week. I offered to help out with her case management load but leadership did not back her up with additional help from me. I had several students on my caseload who did not qualify for speech and language services on standardized assessment but the IEP team determined they needed intervention for social skills like having a conversation, so labeled them as students with speech and language disorders. Some of these students had mild emotional / behavioral issues, while others did not demonstrate any issues. This school bragged about having 30 students per classroom including special needs students. Teachers were great to work with collaboratively but the teacher and leadership turnover at this school is significantly high and I did not want to return. I was not impressed with this Charter School.

Staff is extremely unhelpful and condescending. Wouldn’t feel comfortable having my child going to them for any help. Teachers are always competing and they do not stay long.