Monta Vista is great! I really enjoyed my time spent here! I found the students and staff to both be so accepting and kind! I w...  Read More

Monta Vista is great! I really enjoyed my time spent here! I found the students and staff to both be so accepting and kind! I would truly recommend this school to anyone who wants to have a great high school experience!  Read Less

This school already has a reputation for being cut-throat, academically intense, and for a student population of mindless zombi...  Read More

This school already has a reputation for being cut-throat, academically intense, and for a student population of mindless zombies focused only on grades. As a student who attended this school up until the 2017-2018 school year, this is completely true. The majority of students who do well academically get there by cheating or paying hundreds of dollars for private tutors. Administration is known for being incompetent, careless, and racist. Aside from the recent incidents of student hate speech, student produced hate videos (made for a group project and shown in class), and anti-semitic yearbook edits, there is an overall disadvantage for black and latino students. The school claims that it's diverse due to the large asian demographic, but administration will openly profile other students of color. Beware- you will be accused of selling/holding/taking drugs on campus or cutting class weekly. Administration is fairly conservative, and will do their best to push their values onto the students. This is in no way a comment on the teachers- many of whom are amazing professionals (many, not all)- but on the office administrators. Like playing sports? Be prepared to be verbally abused (or even sexually) by the school coaches. In the '17-'18 school year, a student from another school broke his arm trying out for the MV soccer team, even though he was not legally allowed to try out and should have been stopped by the coach. It's a common complaint amongst students that coaches are verbally abusive, and specific complaints have been brought against many of the coaches. The teacher in charge of all sports does nothing. I myself have brought complaints against my own former coach (for negligence, verbal abuse, and stealing money). This "student advocate" is well aware of the issue and has done nothing, even though several of my former teammates had complained as well. There is no student protection or advocation for student safety, on or off the playing field. This school has a huge mental health crisis. Yet, the only student counselor available specifically for mental health/ personal problems is not a qualified therapist/counselor at all. Instead, he's a whack job who advises students to meditate, look into past reincarnations, and makes volatile home situations worse. The two licensed psychologists who work there are not available for appointment with the student body. The only way to meet with them is if they contact you, making them virtually inaccessible to 99. 9% of student population. While there are 4 counselors available for general help, they're completely overworked, and it's pretty obvious. You're lucky to get 15 minutes with them at a time. The overall attitude on campus is extremely entitled, depressing, and hypocritical. I've never seen multiple teslas in a student parking lot, or experienced such rampant discrimination in a school that prides itself on being ethnically diverse. Please don't send your child here. There are many other good schools, who don't have the same toxic energy as this one. After attending, I had a near perfect GPA and lots of extracurriculars, but I left with permanent anxiety issues and a warped world view.  Read Less

Mr. Post, my mentor, made this place.  The ROP program gave me a future to look forward to.  I look back and get pissed about h...  Read More

Mr. Post, my mentor, made this place.  The ROP program gave me a future to look forward to.  I look back and get pissed about how the art programs were always cut but thats because they were a total joke.  Where a Math or Science teacher is involved with their students; Mr. Sackman is out smoking in his VW Van while you are drawing the same fucking still life over and over from a single angle.  There needs to be more opportunities to cultivate potential and not be the first thing the budget cuts.  Highschool... sucked.  Read Less