Oh how much i hated coming to this school sometimes you seriously get some teachers that actually…read morecare and the rest they Just worry about the bad kids and forget about the good ones , its always so unorganized i remember my senior year having to STAY IN DETENTION also know as ALC class because they didn't have my schedule and didn't know where to put me,why I'm in punishment class because you are unorganized. It is so beautiful now with remodeling but i wouldn't be that fooled from the looks your still in the east side and have to put up with all the drama and ghetto people who cause problems for you and some that wanna disturb the class if you decide to come here get into IB or TLC where you get teachers that care and students to actually motivated to graduate and want to go to college, i wish i would have i regret it ever since.

My children are still doing well in the Ib program but I needed to speak to an Assistant Principal…read moreregarding an issue. I spoke to Mr. Taylor (I believe is his name) and was passed over to Ms. Gayle. She wasn't professional at all, actually quite rude! Spoke with a negative attitude and shouldn't be working around children because she comes off very COLD, not caring or sympathetic at all! Too bad they don't appreciate the good kids that go there! If my children didn't already have good friends there we would be off to a better school! Wouldn't recommend going there for 6-8th grade either, when my child finished 8th grade they didn't get to go to Great America or really do anything special for the 8th graders at all. Just a short pathetic ceremony that the staff appeared bored at and ready to go home! Too bad, I wanted to like this school!!!

Located in downtown Stockton and ranked as one of the best high schools in California. This is not…read moreyour ordinary school and the curriculum is no joke. The academic standards are high, the work is tough and the students that attend this school are among the brightest. It's a small school with teachers that are ready and willing to give the students one on one help when needed and are available via e-mail or to meet in person. Something I greatly appreciate. My son is now a junior and I will miss this place and the incredible staff once he graduates.

This school is one of the best schools nationwide. They prepare their students for what is up…read moreahead. There is no playing around on this school because even summer my kids are still doing homework for next grade level that they are going to be in. The teachers and staff are exceptional. They are very knowledgeable on their job and can be easily reachable by email or in person. This school's curriculum will drill your brain. There are a lot of studying going on but if you need help they will not hesitate to help you out.

Pros: Won outstanding awards in the music department…read moreGreat art teachers Understandable Teachers Video production Animation classes available 4x4 schedule Cons: Food is terrible School built like a prison trash everywhere (damn budget cuts...) Its a great school over all. Just careful with who you hang out with. Many teachers are great and will help you with whatever you need. The counselors are sometimes busy but will help you when they have the time. Perfect school for music. Cesar Chavez has awesome band teachers, Art Coleman and Kristin Florek. Great choir teacher, Mel Suigitan, will help you individually if needed and is down to earth. Awesome school!

i got jumped by students that go there and there basketball team lost by dang near 40 against…read moreEdison this isn't a good look no hate tho just my opinion ps the kids that jumped me jumped me over a bet that I won.

My step-son attends this school currently. We have had a GREAT experience so far in his first two…read moreyears at the school. We don't see much, hear much, or have lots of interaction with schools administration and principals (not necessarily a bad thing, haha), and we had nothing but positive interactions with all other depts. of school. The Counselors are TOP-NOTCH! They are always accessible and very easy going and energetic. His teachers have mostly been quick to respond anytime we reach out about anything and very reasonable. The teaching here is very personal and unique and seems to grab our sons attention and keep him engaged. There will always be a sub-par teacher here or there, but you can tell the vibe at the school with teachers is a positive one for sure. He also participates in a number of extra activities including sports, which have really grown and been successful. The coaches and athletic director are also very responsive, outgoing, and professional. They know their stuff and we love working with them all the time. Especially now with the virus situation all schools have been dealt with, we are even more happy to be a part of this school. There was a seamless transition and extremely open, honest, and quick to lend a hand and be available all the time. This school was prepared for an on-line distance learning transition and our son has not lost a step or feels left behind. Overall, a GREAT school and we wouldn't trade it for any other. Best kept secret in Stockton area!

My children are currently attending in elementary and middle school academies. It is different than…read moreyour typical school but adjusting has been a breeze and the staff has helped so much in that transition. My children so far are happy, engaged, and excited to go to school and that's what's truly important. Is it perfect? No but no school is and this school's pros definitely outweigh the cons. I plan on keeping my children here until they graduate and transferring my children 2 years ago was the best decision I made. :)

Yeah I guess you can say I am a fan of Delta Sierra Middle School…read more.. This is another one of those Lodi Unified schools that is actually located in Stockton. North Stockton to be exact. It actually opened RIGHT across the street from were I grew up right in the middle of my 7th grade year so I got to go to a brand new school for a year and a half. It was so new that some of the water fountains didn't work for a couple weeks and some of the classrooms didn't have enough chairs for everyone to sit in. I did not care, it was awesome going to a new school and being right across the street from home...short walks at the end of the day. (And not to mention sneaking home at lunch sometimes.) We even had to vote in a mascot...I believe we voted the Seahawks. Not my choice, but the students vote spoke differently. They have a wonderful play / activity area...it is huge and also included two baseball fields. There was a hill out back that was almost like an auditorium and we used to hang out back there after school. I even got my first real kiss from my first girlfriend back there. I bet I wasn't a very good kisser back then. Ha. How things have changed! Ahhh memories. It was a memorable two years and another part of my great education from Lodi Unified School District. :0)

The lunch food is nice and basic, but I don't like the teachers. Overall it's great for learning,…read morethe outdoors to go for recess are pretty average size.

Back in 84' parents had to sleep out on the street to get into this public school. Which meant that…read morethe school attracted kids with parents who cared and teachers that wanted to teach the kids of parents that cared. This was a time when public school in Stockton was in high demand. Pops slept out there for 4 days to get me in. Somehow in 1985, sleeping on the street was deemed "unfair" and the school became a traditional public school, opened to any kid with a pulse. Now, I've seen people sleep on the street before. Waiting for concert tickets, homeless, just plain tired. Whatever the reason I have never thought to myself " That looks nice, I'd like to sleep on the street but I can't. Hey you there...yeah you..... sleeping on the street. That's "unfair" of you for being miserable and not getting a good nights sleep and although I'm unwilling to do the same I do have the time to petition the schoolboard and prevent this "unfair" practice of waiting in line for 4 days via "street sleeping" to get my kid in school." Side note: Prior to 1984 you didn't have to sleep on the street if you were a close friend of Principle Coffee who let in the his friends kids automatically. We weren't. (Fucker) After enrollment I began my first day of school. Terrible experience. Especially when Stacey Carter told me at lunch that tuna fish smelled and that I was gross. It took me 15 yrs to get back on the horse and eat some albacore. Since I wouldn't wear shoes with laces or pants that weren't sweats mom tried to compensate by putting me in a izod shirt with a collar. Which only made me look homeless. You know how homeless people sometimes have one piece of clothing thats just too nice and looks out of place when compared to the rest of their clothes. i.e. Drunken man in an unbuttoned ripped windbreaker, filthy tight jeans and bandana but has brand new polished Sperry deck shoes w/ tassels. My homeless style continued through grammer school until highschool where uniforms were mandatory. No joke. Ask Ben: http://smartestmanalive.yelp.com There are two kinds of white kids at public schools in Stockton. Those with ethnic last names and those without. Even if you were albino but had a last name like "Ramirez" you were free from beatings, harassment, name-calling and the usual rough housing. Because of course no one with an ethnic last name was considered white. (Ask Ben) http://smartestmanalive.yelp.com I was the other type of white guy. Especially during recess. Ah recess. Time for a little physical activity...outdoors...fresh air. More like a time to let all the crack babies out all at once and let them kill each other. Seriously there were skirmishes or for sake of a better word brawls everyday. Why ? Cause none of the kids brought food and the school lunch provided was so gross that I wouldn't feed it to a dog. Nothing crazier than 250 kids hungrey for food and fighting. (This was also back when public schools had dedicated smoke lounges so all the teachers would smoke a pack and half in a effort to try and kill themselves before lunch ended and we returned to class) 1990 was the best year of all due to a teachers strike. It was the usual bullshit about more money, more benefits, larger smoking lounges, free cigarettes.... blah, blah, blah. Luckily neither side could agree for 3 weeks so we got a huge jump start on summer. Yes !!! (Who else has been to the waterslides in the Costco parking lot 10 days in a row? Me.) In 4th grade we met Webster Slaugher a wide reciever for the Browns. I had absolutley no idea who he was. Turns out he not only had an awesome last name but, was a 2 time pro-bowler and and related to Ms. Wyatt, our 4th grade teacher. Then in 5th grade we had to donate out clothes for the 2nd time to Armando's family cause his dumb fuck dad burned the house down (again). This time he left hot coals in a paper bag on the carpet and went to the store. Future Darwin Award Winner huh? In sixth grade we went to Science camp. The highlight had next to nothing to do with Science. Seeing what would happen if a close friend of mine could keep a bet to not shit for the entire week was far more compeling. Turns out he kept the bet and nothing that cool happened. Seventh and eight grade was spent hoping that the glue and staples we jammed into the door locks would postpone class for at least a half hour.

I was one of the lucky kids who's parents cared enough about them to sleep outside to get my name…read moreon the attendance list of this premier Stockton public school. In it's heyday CSSS was unsurpassed in teacher dedication, classroom participation, and parent participation. Kindergarten was fun, until I saw Stacy Carter throw up white stuff (my first cognitive vomit memory), and someone stole my Dukes of Hazzard lunch box (still painful). The next year the admission rules had changed and the influx of crack babies began. (See Joe's comments about unfair ground sleeping practices: http://burritoeater.yelp.com) Still the great teachers were there, for quite a few years after that. I continued to receive the best education that Stockton had to offer. The various crack babies taught me street smarts and the value of diplomacy.(Muhammad was 6'4" with a mustache in 4th grade, there was no way I was going to take him on.) The teachers taught me all about science, and social studies. As the years passed on, being white in a predominantly crack-baby school wasn't the easiest thing, I did have an "ethnic" last name so some people didn't mess with me as much. (ask Joe: http://burritoeater.yelp.com) Recess was like "Rise of the Crack Babies". Aside from Edmund punching the teatherball poles straight-on as hard as he could...kids were running rampant, destroying everything in their wake. Throwing rocks at passing cars, shoving pebbles into the locks, etc. A sight to behold for sure. I would stick to the "white kid games" such as teatherball, and four square, but some fucker always came in and got really good so we couldn't play any more. There was also a time when Regan shut down all mental institutions and released all the psyhcos into the world. It just so happened that there was a mental institution across the street from our school. How convenient! Shortly thereafter, a rule was imposed to stay away from the fence on that side of the street and not talk to anyone walking or loitering nearby. Then Bart Simpson shirts were banned and all hell broke loose. I was also the "artist" at school so I would sell drawings of low-riders, cholas, pot leaves, and "tag" peoples names for them. My first business venture. The drawings more than paid for my supplies (Hershey's chocolate scented pencils, porsche pencil sharpener). This school was such a huge part of my childhood, maybe because I went there for 9 years in a row (Ask Joe: http://burritoeater.yelp.com). Or maybe because the teachers really cared about my education, talked to my parents regularly, and helped me in any way they could. There was no way I was growing up to be an ignorant dumb-ass like many other kids who came in later through my elementary career. We were the core group of kids who were there from the beginning, we were the smart ones.

I will start out with the positives, which would be the type of classes that they offer, and some…read moreof the staff like the teachers for the most part my daughter did love. However, she was a transfer there during her senior year and every senior wants to have a great experience and for the most part, she did have good experiences, but my complaint as a mother would be the lack of care during the organization of the school events as well as communication in general . From the very beginning, how her transfer was done was horrible . We also couldn't really get a hold of her counselor which we obviously needed to get in touch with to be able to start her school year, but he had an extremely bad attitude from the beginning and it seemed to be like that throughout the rest of the school year. I was trying to have my daughter not go to the school, but she insisted because of the type of classes that they had to offer . The attendance office seem to for the most part have an attitude problem one in particular Latina lady always seems to have an attitude and give my daughter an extremely hard time! They often didn't really have any answers to basic questions! The assistant vice principal was a student who lacks care and didn't really provide accurate communication. He often seem to lie, and when I would catch him in lies, he would then later change his story or move the goal post to deter the conversation. She was also harassed by another young lady in which she went to the office to report the incident and was told that she would be later on, followed up with a solution and that never happened. The senior prom was orchestrated with the most lack of care. The senior prom tickets was basically a little cut out piece of binder paper that had sloppy handwriting that pretty much say that this is your ticket. I wouldn't recommend this school to any student. They have a lot of typical things that occur in high school but there are a lot of fights there a lot of illegal activity that occurs in the bathrooms and the type of teaching that was done wasn't really all that good. It seems like the teachers for the most part were there for a paycheck didn't really challenge the students and for a parent to witness their child go from kindergarten to 12th grade overall her entire senior year was by far the most disappointing.

This school has some amazing staff Mrs. Taylor is one of the few admin that truly cares the rest…read morejust talk to get you out of the office with no action behind there words. Mr. Hit should not be an instructor here, he genuinely abuses his power as an educator and is missing from the class 80% of the time when he is present he's on his phone arguing I have 3 students in his class different periods all have taken videos reporting the issues. During elections he was very vocal his stance and excitement making kids uncomfortable. On cold weather days he continued to have kids in the pool. Ms.Cuerpo is another instructor there to make kids life hard took all year to get my kids out of her class she was literally failing my kids even with the work turned in because of attendance (due to deaths in our family) when she gets sick she wants understanding but if her students miss a day she doesn't care as if she's in the attendance office. My kids were switched both maintained an A and B. Now I'm just the crazy parent in the office eyes because you have to literally raise hell to get things done for your kids. Don't get me wrong not saying my kids are saints but when you know it's a issue you know I've learned Lodi unified is more concerned about receiving funding then the students academics success and they seem to hire whoever and just turn they head when it's an issue. We are from Sacramento center unified and never did we deal with any of these problems until moving here. Students being threatened to have cars towed, in my school they were thankful we were showing up to class daily. Why make these kids lives harder? Just let them get through high school

Great place to send your kids. My son enjoyed his time there as a student and now gives back to the…read moreprogram as a football coach .

When I was a student at St. Mary's our religion teachers would offer extra credit in their classes…read moreif we created anti-abortion/pro-life signs and picketed outside of abortion clinics. My freshman religion teacher also made a student burst into tears because she told him his dog wasn't going to heaven (his dog had just died). Also in that same freshman year she asked a group of girls to line up in front of the class and have a boy walk up and stick a piece of tape on one of the girls' hands. He then proceeded to take that piece of tape and put it on the next girls' hands and then the next girls' until the tape lost its stickiness. And that was how she tried to teach us girls that for every sexual partner you have your value decreases until it's nothing.