Santa Rita Elementary School

2014 Santa Rita Street

School District

Santa Rita Union Elementary
Grade

K-5
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:21
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on July 27, 2021

The principal is an amazing person in all aspects.The teachers who have taught my child are wonderful , caring, beautiful day compassionate. The nurse and the office staff are great. My child has have a great experience while learning at santa Rita Elementary School
Submitted by parent on August 11, 2014

The Staff in the office at Santa Rita are unprofessional, to say the least. Showing a clear disrespect by cutting off parents who are trying to explain important information, being short or condisending when asked for help or parents are unsure of where to go, and a principal who is more afraid of being used than he is about the safety of his students. As a parent of a child who attends this school, I must say I am HORRENDOUSLY unimpressed by the Santa Rita elementary staff. Not to mention showing favoritism among the Spanish and Caucasian students. My lovely daughter spent more time in the office than she did a classroom her first grade year, because her teacher refused to acknowledge the child who was bullying my daughter. Instead, my daughter was targeted and I was told to hope for a better year in second grade. If you can take your children anywhere else or have the time to homeschool them, I strongly recommend it.
Submitted by other on November 07, 2013

My grandson has been attending Santa Rita for 3 months, he was one of the lucky few to have gone to a full time private preschool. The teacher does her best to teach the class even though she has about 17+ children for the first 2 hours of the day then another 15 + come in around 10:30. She is forced to discipline the children constantly due to a couple of them who just can't learn in this type of structure they are very intelligent but always being seated drives them crazy therefore they are in trouble all the time. Also many of the children lack the basic manners they should have learned at home like, not running to and from one place to another, returning items after use, not respecting a persons personal space. And since when is kindergarten limited to 3.5 hours? That leaves little time for instruction. Yet to her credit she does a pretty fair job of teaching given these circumstances. I go to the school as often as I can and volunteer my time one, to help the kids who know practically nothing, and two, to keep an eye out for my grandson. A parents presence is mandatory if you want your child to survive and maybe even thrive in many of today's public schools.
Submitted by parent on March 31, 2010

I have been a teacher at Santa Rita for 13 years. My job is to teach intervention level of 2nd language learners at our school. Five years ago I made the choice to have my daughter attend Santa Rita with me instead of the higher achieving school near our home. Over the years our principal and team of teacher leaders have put in countless hours to focus on how we can continue to improve our school and best teach all of our students regardless of their learning abilities. The fact that my child has scored consistently at the top the STAR Test reflects 2 things about Santa Rita; first, the academic pacing in her classes has ensured that the difficult state standards have been taught and second, that any child with parent's that support their learning can succeed at our title 1 school.
Submitted by parent on November 16, 2007

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