Will C. Wood High School

998 Marshall Road

School District

Vacaville Unified
Grade

9-12
Teacher/Student Ratio

1:22
Type

public

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Reviews

Submitted by parent on May 16, 2023

My kid was miserable here, for a myriad of reasons. Glad we got them out and away to better schools.
Submitted by parent on January 10, 2023

My family moved to Vacaville 3 years ago. My daughter attended schools in Vallejo for a few more years due to close proximity to my job. The Vacaville school system has its flaws, but the schools are far better than Vallejo or Fairfield. Anyone whose moved through different districts can tell you that. My first day of taking my daughter to freshman orientation. I was truly amazed at how many families were there. Her first year at Wood has been great the teachers are all responsive and helpful and so is the staff. I will say what makes the school other than the staff is the amazing family involvement. I love the constant updates from the teachers, and also the Parent Square app that sends me notifications for any school activities and emergency announcements. I worried having a first-time high schooler that I would feel a bit more disconnected from what was going on at school, but I feel well informed of everything that is going on at school.
Submitted by other on November 16, 2019

It was alright until I finished woodI was not treated that well and I find wood the worse school in Solano county. I hope it'll go lower In rank in the future and the students will go To Vaca high or Vacaville Christian school.
Submitted by parent on May 31, 2018

I have continuously had kids in WCW for over 10 years and still do. I am far from impressed with the academics, counseling, and overall quality of teachers. There are some excellent teachers, many average, and several mediocre to lazy. The soccer team is almost all Hispanic and clearly turns a blind eye to other races of players with skill. The money is spent on football and baseball, including a brand new stadium that was grossly expensive. The campus, overall, is crowded, dated, and dirty. It was originally built as a middle school. Many students that graduate to attend a 4 year university find themselves ill prepared and move back home within a year. Counselors regularly encourage students to settle and attend a JC instead of encouraging them to push themselves and get accepted into a 4 year. As a parent, do not expect this school to push your child to succeed. It will be up to you. WCW is great at graduating blue collar workers or service industry workers, but not high tech careers or the like. All of my kids have commented the following about WCW: boring, low energy, lack of academic assistance, favoritism, poor academic counseling, lack of knowledge about scholarships beyond the common or local ones, very limited culture, overall an uninteresting or engaging campus/community at school. These opinions come from my kids and family. (a teacher, a military officer, a current college attendee, a current student) (all were involved in sports and clubs)
Submitted by parent on February 02, 2012

We moved to Vacaville from the midwest and I was very nervous about the reputation that "California public schools" seem to have in the rest of the country. I have been VERY pleasntly surprised by the quality of this school. The teachers are genuine and very supportive, the athletics are competitive in the region, and the student body seems generally supportive of each other, and accepting of diversity and differences. The "bless you" incident was completely blown entirely out pof proportion, no points were ever taken from students and it was a matter of the teacher actually doing his job and trying to control his class (from a bunch of disruptive out of line students) and not one of religion or separation of church and state.
Submitted by other on September 30, 2011

i find it disturbing that this school district would employ a teacher would deduct points from a student for saying god bless you. not only has this teacher violated this student's right of free speech, but his views are representative of polital correctness that has been crippling for some time now. in this case, it should be the teacher that is repremanded, not the student!
Submitted by parent on September 29, 2011

As a district that employs a teacher who deducts points from a student's grades for saying "bless you" after someone sneezes, I cannot rate this school anything other than "Awful". This type of arbitrary communistic indoctrination should not be tolerated anywhere in the United States. Until this teacher is removed, I suggest to all parents that they remove their children from the school.
Submitted by parent on September 29, 2011

...Even though I don't see the harm in the occasional "Bless you"...the separation of church and state is for a very, very good reason. Religions are many, and belong in the home or church....not in a government building for all people of that community. The average parent who hasn't spent much time in the classroom preferably like a fly on the wall, doesn't know what their little angels are doing to disrupt the learning for all the students. Many who really do care about getting an education, some who only want to pretend to sneeze so their friends say "bless you" so many times the teacher hardly has a chance to teach. Isn't that one of the reasons we pay our taxes, so that teachers can give our kids some education? If being able to say bless you is more important than education, your child belongs in a religious school, not a public one.
Submitted by parent on September 25, 2010

I feel this school is wonderful. The reason I only give it a four is because of the LInk Crew and Cat Kartel. The link crew is a bunch of overrated upperclassmen who claim to help freshmen when they only push them aside. The people in charge don't really help them reconnect and my freshman son felt more punished by having a link leader. The other reason, Cat Kartel, is a school approved bully group. They have students invited in to a world of drugs and sex. It goes on right under the school's nose. The badmintion and tennis programs are woderful. The football team is rising. The band program is struggling to get back on its feet after a director change but seems to be stepping up in marching. The chior is wonderful and amazing. You will not find a better one.
Submitted by parent on May 25, 2010

My daughter has been a freshman at WCW this past year and had many opportunities for personal growth. WCW offers Band, Choir, Performing Arts, and Successful Sport Teams. Teachers are very attentive and easy to communicate with. The Principal, Teachers and Counselors show sincere interest in guiding students to succeed. The students are genuine and down to earth. Not a lot of big egos bidding to out do each other. Instead they support and cheer each other on! Academically WCW is like all other schools, If you complete your work, pay attention in class and do your part you learn. You get out what you put in. We have been happy with the material my daughter has learned this year. She gets alot out because she puts alot in!
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