We love Maybeck! It gives students a rigorous education that is based in deep reading, thorough…read moreresearch, considered discussion, labs and experimentation. The school has the principles of honesty, integrity, and democracy. The staff gets to know the students well and the students form lifelong friendships. Many annual school trips and camping trips help the community grow close. Social justice and democracy are foundational principles at the school. It doesn't just talk the talk, it walks the walk. It's one in a million.

Honestly don't know where to start with this.. This school…read moreclaims to be a safe and helpful place for alt students and students with unique learning style but it is quite the opposite. Most of the teachers who made the school special and unique have been pushed out in order to create a shitty excuse for a college prep school. In my two years here before transferring to a far better alt school was called "Lazy" when not preforming well despite not receiving the accommodations I was promised. This only scratches the surface of what is wrong with this school.

Best teachers and staff from Administrators to Counselors to coaches and best of all really…read morecommitted and dedicated teachers. Great experience for my kid so far.

girl this school is messy and the drama is crazyyyyy... the teachers are okay but the food is nasty…read moreasf

If you are still at BHS or just graduated you will be shocked to learn that my class is having…read moretheir 65th reunion next week. Yes, we graduated in 1960. It was one of the top schools in the US in those days. we won the Bellamy award in 1959. It saddens me to read these reviews with one star. Most of the content of the poor reviews seems to center around lack of organization and social problems. I hope the academic aspect of the school is still high.

This school has gone completely down hill. There is absolutely no safety or control in that school…read more The staff are only there for the paycheck! The dean of students is completely useless, they swear they are here for the students but they don't care at all. SAVE YOUR KIDS!!! DON'T SEND THEM TO THIS HORRIBLE SCHOOL

The process of looking for a new school is overwhelming due to the sheer number of options. You…read morecome up with a comprehensive list of 10-15 schools you are considering and try to knock any of them out for even random reasons so that you can focus on touring and applying to a more manageable list of schools. Berkwood Hedge was on my long list - and when I read some of the negative reviews, I almost just crossed it off of our list. I am so thankful that I kept my mind open and saw Berkwood Hedge for myself. My son joined the 4th grade class this past Fall and it has been truly transformational for him and our family. After years of unhealthy social situations in his past schools and lack of attention to his learning needs, due to the care from Berkwood Hedge, he is now starting to come out from a haze of low confidence. His teachers, Olivia and Elisa, have been invaluable in helping him grow in confidence. Before you make any decisions about schooling for your child, I implore you to just attend one community meeting that happens in person every Wednesday morning at 8:45 on campus. It really does take a village and Berkwood Hedge has set up just that - a loving village around our children. When you hear the head of school, Love Weinstock, speak, you know that this care for the whole child is everywhere in the school's culture. You will definitely see the intentional approach in your child's classroom but you will also see it with restorative justice with Silver, music with Ajayi, learning with Edie, art with Laura, school operations with Kris, and the list goes on. We will be moving to Berkwod Hedge's upper campus next year and we are really looking forward to it. They have really been able to increase the diversity in the upper grades. Furthermore, Love leads with so much clarity that I look forward to seeing that come alive in middle school.

My child started at Berkwood Hedge this year after transferring from a much larger public…read moreelementary school. The difference in his enthusiasm for learning has been night & day. He is thriving -- academically, emotionally, and socially -- at Berkwood Hedge, and we are grateful! I can't say enough good things about this incredible school. The quality of teaching, arts programming, and true care demonstrated between adults and kids is phenomenal. Each time I think about our experience, I realize "but wait, there's more!" The list of wonderful things about Berkwood Hedge just goes on and on.

I am a little biased. I only spent three years here. But I even remember my teachers' names…read more Mr. Meadows for Kindergarten, Class A. Mrs. Barnhart for 1st Grade, Class A. Mrs. Klitza for 2nd Grade, I forget which Class I was in. I have fond memories of sitting on the stone walls with my best little friend and pulling the aloe, breaking it, and watching the clear goo ooze out of its veins, sharing a red delicious apple, pulling string cheese and wrapping it around all of our fingers. We often broke into the locked art closet to steal cat's eyes (plastic ones), climbed into the fenced garden to pick mint leaves, climbed over the stone walls to trespass into the neighbor's manicured back lawn, played hide and seek around the portable class rooms and permanently locked swimming pool. I collected dead bees and live caterpillars from all over the playground and showed my teachers. Both of my parents worked long hours, so I had daycare and afterschool extracurricular classes: stamp-making, ceramics, and book-making. I swung on the jungle gym bars, doing cherry drops - once I fell flat on my chest, which knocked the breath out of me, and for the first time in my young but conscious life, I realized I was mortal. I have almost endless memories of the part of my childhood that occurred here. Even at the beginning of summer, at the end of my 2nd grade school year, when I knew I wouldn't be coming back the next year because we were moving, I sat by the yard looking out over the playground with my hand-writing and math papers, and some craft I had made in art class, warmed by the sun, and feeling infinite (yes, children especially feel infinite), I cherished my time here. Education (one word for such a great thing?), good teachers (and good meaning sees to the children in their intellectual, emotional and spiritual development in school), good parenting, are the most important part of a child's life in their young years. A nurturing, creative environment it was, with fun, fair and disciplining hands to keep the mischievous ones in check.

While bullying from other students is always a concern, Bentley School has the unique problem of…read morehaving one of its teachers bully her students. Over the course of the year (school events, play dates, birthday parties), without prompting, classmate after classmate informed us that our child's teacher constantly put down our child and those other students who were not favored by her. Weekly, often daily, she would demean and certain students in front of the class. And yet while fellow students saw the problem, and the matter was brought to the school's attention, the school administration did nothing. Enabling bad people is what bad schools do. This is a bad school.

Our Journey with our son's learning issues began in elementary school. As time progressed he fell…read morefarther behind. In middle school we put him in a one on one school where he could be succesful as he could learn at his own pace.( Tilden prep). He had gained confidence in that time and was ready for high school, but we could not find a high school which combined working on how to deal with his learning disability and to provide the academic rigor necessary to get him into a college which is what he wanted. He came out of the school with confidence and with skills for self advocacy which has enabled him to be independent in college. His entire demeanor about learning changed in Bayhill as they showed him that he was able to learn and to enjoy it. The staff and director were extremely supportive and tailored to his needs

Bayhill is an amazing school! In my 13 years working at the school, I've witnessed so many success…read morestories, students who arrived with little confidence in their abilities become lifelong learners ready for college and so much more!

A real gem hidden in the Oakland Hills. Small, close-knit student body; beautiful campus; STEM and…read moresocial justice focus. Any young person would be deeply fortunate to go here and is certain to have a bright future in front of them as far as self-confidence, support systems, and college acceptances go.

I am a proud alumni of HNHS and would recommend those looking for a good education with a solid…read morefoundation take a look at Holy Names. I still wear my class ring just about everyday and love whenever I get a chance to go back for a play, the crab feed, or a luncheon. I do have a few lifelong friends that I made there and am happy to have chosen to go there. I lived in Hercules and would commute via yellow school bus (when they had a bus route and offered this service) leaving at 6:30 in the morning and getting home around 4:30 in the afternoon from school. The challenge for me was participating in extra curricular activities. Living so far away, there weren't many ways for me to "get a ride" or participate as much as I had wanted to. Most of my participation was being a part of on-campus groups like Campus Ministry. Go Monarchs! :D