Love this school my niece and nephews go here and it’s just amazing

Amazing school! The teachers there are fantastic, the playground is very fun (swings would be nice, but that might just be personal preference,) and overall, I really dont have that many complaints! Ive been going there since kindergarten, and will actually be graduating this year as a fifth-grader. I have enjoyed my experience, and though I cannot wait for middle school, I also cannot claim that I wont miss this school.

Awesome school! Awesome teachers! This school is innovative and using research based ideas. Children play more by getting 30 min recess in the morning, 50 minute lunch/recess, and another 10 minute afternoon recess! They are also big in teaching and learning How to Play by The Bay which is a philosophy and curriculum. Children engage in multiple fieldtrips and Assemblies!! The school also offers an afterschool program (Alameda Arts) that is phenomenal!!!! You guys rock!!!!

This is a terrible school. My son went there for only a year, it was so bad!Katherine Barr, the principal, is the worst principal that Ive ever met in my life. She claims that shes teaching kids lifeskills when in reality, she yells at little kids when theyre crying.Along with that, shes very forgetful. She forgot the birthdays of so many kids that it wasnt even funny; why, when she forgot my sons birthday last year, I gave her a piece of my mind!She seems to think that any sort of noise level in the lunchroom is unacceptable; its LUNCH! Kids are supposed to be loud because theyre kids! She yelled at my son for talking in a NORMAL TONE about Batman! She just makes me very angry.Why, one of my sons friends has an older brother who goes to that school, and he told me that today in the lunchroom, a group of girls were yelled at... for choosing their seats. Apparently, she got angry at them all because they were standing there (no one was actually walking around, but they were trying to figure out where to sit,) and she just yelled at them! I honestly feel that thats just rude; along with that, every student was that shed yelled at was either poor or a minority. The four students were Asian, Filipino, black, or, in the case of the Irish freckled girl, very, very, poor. Not only is she rude, but also has internalized racism, or so Ive theorized.In other words, most of my issues with this school stem from the, as the teacher of my sons new class at Nea would say, the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, principal. Everyone else is great, though.