Mardan School

1 Osborn

Irvine, CA 92604

8 Reviews

School District
Grade

1-12
Type

private

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Submitted by parent on March 13, 2024

Mardan has been an amazing place for our child! The campus is lovely and spacious, but most importantly the staff are wonderful. the teachers, administrators, counselor, and support team have all played such an important role in our lives these last several years. They are true professionals in their field and through a combination of teamwork and individual meaningful relationships with our son, they have changed his educational and social/emotional paths in very positive ways. Thank you all so much for your support and for making Mardan such a great place!
Submitted by other on August 14, 2023

Mardan was a great school and I enjoyed attending school there
Submitted by parent on August 30, 2022

Our experience with this school started off very nice the first year. The year following was truly an eye opener. If you have a child on the spectrum and have lost hope...keep looking. This school doesn't have a program. It's simply a daycare center.
Submitted by other on May 26, 2021

I went to this school in the early to mid 1990s and it's the source of quite a lot of the educational gaps I suffered from roughly 3rd grade through mid 5th grade. It was more or less treated as a place to keep students under control and very little if anything was taught. It's a mixed blessing, most public education in that period of time is not fantastic, but I was not given an adequate base and had to be tutored outside of school to re-integrate into public school (against the will of the Mardan school and after a very large battle with the school district) for the second semester of 5th grade. I hope many things have changed since then, but I doubt they have. They were a leech surviving off diverted public funds and they prioritized the receipt of those funds over student well-being while I was a student there, and calling myself a student is a generous use of terminology.
Submitted by student on May 24, 2021

My experience at this school was definitely a change when a first got there. However it was traumatic because no one really wanted to be socially active with me there. A couple of students even got excluded just because of the way they looked. It was nonsensical! The education is not the part that is the most upsetting but the students there were very mean and excluding. I even once helped a student I cared about to stop someone from reaching them and I felt ashamed for doing that because there's no reason to be ignorant and excluding to anyone. The teachers there are so delusional because they think that rejecting is okay and is a gift. It's so unnecessary to attend this school, and on social media, I had over 4 people there block me and none of the teachers did anything about it. Please do yourself a favor and parents who are reading this, I love and care for you all and want your child to have a safe and educational environment. This school is hard to get in but I personally feel like it's a scam because it does not allow every student to have good friendships or embrace others without anyone telling you it is bothersome. Other schools around are a better way to help your child feel accepted and welcome. There are schools out there however that may have problems that this one does not, but there's no need to find a perfect school, the whole point is that it's safe, educational, accepting, and protective.
Submitted by parent on November 30, 2016

This school has changed my sons life after a really dreadful experience in the public schools. David and his team have an extraordinary heart for these children and it shows in everything that they do. I cannot recommend Mardan highly enough.
Submitted by parent on February 09, 2013

Well I don't 'do' reviews... But after reading the silly one about double standards of school paid vs. parent paid, I feel compeled to write a review. Mardan has changed our lives. And trust me these people are not in it for the money. They are passionate about what they do for these kids. You wil see no flashy cars in their parking lot. My child has been going to Mardan for four years. He is diagnosed 'high functioning autism'. We were in public school for two years. We were able to fight for a one to one aid at his public school. My son would try to run away from school daily at his public school. He was misrable, we were misrable! We started in the summer session at Mardan several years ago (self/parent paid). When that first summer session was over I came accross him at home laying on the couch quiely crying. I asked him why he was crying? He wouldn' t answer. I asked him if he missed school (Mardan) he said 'yes'. What a difference! Oh, how's he doing accedemically? Better than he ever did at public. How's he doing socially? A million times better than he ever did at public. He is not ever going to be ostersized for being different at Mardan. Best decision we ever made!!
Submitted by other on November 08, 2012

Well, when this racket unravels its gonna be interesting. If only the parents knew of the instigation and double standards this organizations endows itself with. The different treatment of district payed kids versus private pay versus scholarship is hilarious. Lets just say they know who's paying them.