I just went on a school tour today! It's a great campus that consists of 3 schools. Our tour was…read moreled by an 8th and 7th grader who were both enthusiastic about their school. If you want to get a feel for a school, pay attention to the students. In each class, the students were participating and clearly excited to be there. In reading some of the negative comments below, I have to say that I got a very different impression. Maybe changes have been made since but considering what I witnessed today...Portola is excellent‼ Go check it out for yourself.

My experience with the administration, especially Dean Mr. Jones, has been extremely disappointing…read more Instead of feeling supported by leadership, I've often felt ignored and treated unfairly. A school environment should make students feel respected and heard, but that hasn't been my experience here. Situations that needed understanding and communication were handled in a way that felt dismissive and overly harsh. I hope the school seriously reflects on how students are treated and works to create a more supportive environment in the future.

This is the best middle school in California! My daughter absolutely loved it…read more Kathy Jamison was great. We asked her to fill out my daughter's entertainment application and a letter of recommendation, and Mrs. Jamison did it so fast! She was always there for us! We also loved the whole office staff especially Megan! She always helped with a great smile! Teachers were great! My daughter went to Calabasas High School and still misses her Chime Charter a lot)))

This school sucked the teachers would harass you about small things and they diddint actually teach…read moreus anything and based everything around takeing care of the sped kids and made everything about them

Very great school, including the taiko when I was there in 2023 (I didn't attend Crespi high…read moreschool) but I came in Crespi with my mom and dad for Ivana cuz she invited us back then to Crespi for her taiko. Anyways, it was great taiko performance including Yatai. KEEP IT UP CRESPI + LOUISVILLE TAIKO! God bless. -Anthony Elaneh from LA Pierce College Graduated VAAS in 6/6/24

Here for the first round of the CIF State Basketball Championship tournament…read more Bishop Amat High School (29-5) vs Crespi High School (20-13). The gym is very small, seating is extremely limited, seats are VERY tight from the person seated in front and behind but the AC works GREAT! This is a much older gym, and based on the championship banners hanging throughout, this school knows how to win championships.

Attended Wilbur from 1963 to 1969 with amazing memories. Adam West used to put on his Batman…read morecostume and attend every Halloween Carnival. My earliest memory is from 1st grade, Mrs Gillean's class. She announced we should all go out to the flagpole as our Moms were picking us up. "The President had just passed away." That was all we were told. Anyway, hope the food has gotten better--including the fish sticks served every Friday!

Correction. The name of the school is Wilbur Charter for enriched academics. One of the best drama…read moreclubs which continues on to middle school at Portola which is a sister school to Wilbur.

As a concerned parent, I feel compelled to share our difficult experience with this school,…read moreparticularly under the new principal's leadership Jennifer Di Lorenzo. Since the change in administration, my husband and I have been repeatedly contacted over very minor issues, while more serious matters involving our son were not handled appropriately. Our son was physically hit by other students on multiple occasions, yet instead of addressing the issue, the principal continuously placed the blame on him. He was made to feel responsible and even told it was wrong to "lie" to his parents when he tried to explain his side of the story something no child should have to go through. This is not only unprofessional, but deeply upsetting. Additionally, we noticed a pattern of unkind and dismissive behavior from other staff, including the campus aide, Lobat, who often ignored him when he greeted her in the mornings. On days we were slightly late, she singled him out for a tardy slip even when he was the first to arrive among the late students. The final straw was on the last day of school, when a girl hit our son and he could barely walk afterward. We took him to the office and spoke with school coordinator named Bree. She showed little concern and told him he should have reported it to his teacher, essentially dismissing him. Another child walked in shortly after and was immediately offered ice, yet my son who had been explaining his situation for nearly 20 minutes was only offered ice as an afterthought. It was clear there was no empathy for him. Unfortunately, I was pregnant during much of this time and unable to advocate for him as strongly as I would have liked, and my husband was trying to remain respectful. But the emotional toll this experience has taken on our son and our family has been significant. We have since decided to transfer him to a different school in hopes that he can move on from this experience. We do not recommend this school. No child should feel targeted or unheard in an environment that is supposed to be safe and supportive.

Mrs glucksman is the most amazing and caring preschool teacher. She goes above and beyond for her…read morestudents. My son still gives her hugs 3 years later every chance he gets. School is well organized and fun for the kids. Feels safe and I've never had to worry.

My husband, Charles, and I have been happily married for 24 years. My 2 sons attended school here…read morefor 2 years. The teachers harassed my sons by playing the cool kid rap music and my kids came home and using curse words such as, "poop", "butt" and "stupid". (My kids are in 5th grade they shouldn't be using this kind of language.) Not only that the female children that do go to this school have frequently asked for playdates with my eldest son, Trevor. I don't know what kind of radical, leftist ideals this school is promoting, but they sure aren't encouraging our children to act in an appropriate manner. My youngest son, Hunter, recently came home crying as his teacher, Mrs. Arisen, had asked for a hug after yelling at him for not completing his civil war reenactment script. Another terrible atrocity that occurred on school grounds left my son, Trevor, traumatized. He unfortunately has a peanut allergy, do he must sit at the peanut allegory table, alone. One day he told me that one kid had aggressively thrown a bag of peanut m&m's directly at him and yelled "BOMB!". And the staff did nothing to help. This is a terrible school and I would never send my worst enemy to this school.

My daughter attended Serrania for K-5. For all grades except 4th grade we had a great experience!…read more However, her experience with her fourth grade teacher, Ms. Tenzer, was beyond unacceptable and our multiple requests for meetings and inquiries into issues my daughter was having with her went unresolved. After much consideration we decided to pull her out of LAUSD for Middle School and High School.

Thank you Woodland Hills Academy's staff for your dedicated work with our children at these…read morecritical times and at this critical age experience. Your work and guidance are much appreciated. Shoshana Ben-Horin

I went there for 6th grade and would give my old school one star if I could give less. The school…read morewas terrible at handling bullying, and I never felt safe or supported. The dean was extremely sexist--I once wore plaid pants on a free dress day, and he accused me of wearing pajamas. He made me walk around all day in booty shorts underneath, which was humiliating. He also called every girl 'young lady' in a way that felt really creepy. The education itself was a joke; I learned almost nothing there. I would never recommend this school to anyone. i am no longer a student there.

This has been a great school for the last 20 years! I went to this school from 1991 to 1995…read more Having emigrated only 3 weeks before school started, I did not speak or understand much English at all, and I was placed in ESL classes. Thanks to great teachers and a caring and encouraging counselor (Mrs. McDonald), I was able to learn English fast, and transfer to the honors program starting 11th grade. I ended up taking AP English and Honors English 11 simultaneously in the 12th grade! I graduated taking all my A through G UC required classes, and got accepted into several UCs and Cal States. And once at UC San Diego, I was able to keep up and even graduate with honors with a major and two minors. And why did UCs want me, despite my low SAT verbal score? It was thanks to the abundance of clubs and activities that I was involved with at Reseda High. There were so many clubs at this school, you had your pick of several for each day of the week. And teachers encouraged students to join things, like a very active student cabinet, journalism, a second newsletter put out by ESL students for ESL students, a great drama program, cheer, flag, all sorts of sports teams, choir, band, 18 different clubs, volunteering opportunities such as planting trees on earth day, and more. My ESL teacher (Mrs. Worman) encouraged me and my best friend to run for office and join Student Cabinet, and I am so grateful that we did. We ended up becoming very involved with a whole lot of things, not knowing that colleges would like that, but because teacher after teacher made it feel good to be involved. And now, long after high school I have remained involved wherever I go, because I learned the value of being involved. This school was full of very caring teachers and office staff, who went out of their way to engage and teach students. The only staff members I did not like were one Spanish teacher who could not control her class (Mrs. Swanson?) and the college counselor (Mrs. Stanzberry). She stuck out, because she was not friendly and was intimidating. The rest of the teachers I had were fantastic, especially the ones in the social science department (especially Mr. Kaz and Dr. Shaffer) and the ESL department. Now, years later, I have tracked some of these teachers down via facebook and we have become facebook friends. I was shocked that they even remembered me 18 years later. They tell me that they remember most of their students. And they do! They remember distinct things about personalities of my classmates and cousins who went to the same school. (Meanwhile, for the few months that I attended Taft High school, 2 teachers didn't even take the time to properly learn my name then, and I couldn't tell you any of their names either cause they did not connect with me in any way.) The campus was beautiful, complete with its own little forest at one end, and clean. The kids were nice, and inclusive. My lunch group looked like a mini united nations, complete with two white guys and a white girl who hung out with us Persians, Rumanians, Armenian, El Salvadorians, Mexicans, and Russian! And others came and went, hanging out with different groups on different days as they pleased. Because of this, I got plenty of opportunity to practice my conversational English, and people marveled at how well I spoke English for the amount of time I had been in the US. This could be because in some schools the culture is such that different races self-segregate and recent immigrants end up together with others who are not fluent in English and fluent in a different language so they speak to each other in that language. Me? I don't speak Rumanian or Armenian or Russian or Spanish. The only way to communicate for my lunch group was English. And now the there is a magnet program on campus too, and I hear that it is wonderful. My cousins went through the magnet program and loved it. Interestingly, most of their teachers were the same as I had. And for the relatively low socioeconomic neighborhood full of recent immigrants, Reseda high and its magnet have unusually high test scores, college admissions, and scholarship recipients. I attribute it to the school culture and the attentive teachers and staff who go above and beyond to pull kids up and encourage them to explore different avenues and apply for all sorts of different opportunities.

A 12 year old girl died on Feb 25, 2026 because the school did not take bullying seriously. Her…read morename was Khimberly and she was trying to help her older sister because she was also being bullied. I wonder who the teachers and principal are at this school. .... as caregivers they need to do better.

I went here from 2004 - 2006 and I was bullied quite a bit…read more The fact that I came to look at this page and see reviews of people talking about their kids getting bullied even to this day breaks my heart. I see that it hasn't gotten any better. I had some good times too and all, some of my teachers were really cool, but still.

The school is just so ghetto. There are so many incidents of bullying and the staff just simply…read moreignores it. There were girls mocking an autistic kid and nothing was done about it. The adults at the school simply don't try to protect other kids, and it's just upsetting. There'a also a teacher that bullies her students and the first time she was reported nothing happened.

Everything! We had such a meaningful exploration of Daniel Pearl Magnet High. The school offered a…read morefeeling of a close knit and highly invested community of students and faculty. The students presenting in the booths all spoke with such enthusiasm and affection for the school. We are attending 9th grade in the fall and today's tour really confirms that we made the right choice!

Daniel Pearl Magnet High School is a small school with a big heart. Because it's smaller, everyone…read morereally knows each other. The staff truly care about the students and go out of their way to support them. It's a safe, welcoming environment where kids don't get lost in the shuffle like they might at a bigger campus. The students are respectful, the teachers are dedicated, and there's a real sense of community.