Apple Valley Unified School District

Rio Vista Elementary teachers have been very good with my children but the office staff is very discriminating they go by your appearance and that’s how you get treated, the assistant principal Renee Castillo is very loud and when she has a problem she will confront you in front of everyone including other parents and in front of your children she traumatized my children by saying in front of everyone that if I am 5 minutes late from picking my kids up after school that its considered abandoning them and she will call the police… while the whole staff and other parents were laughing at the situation. So now my children ask me if i am late if the police will take them. Then today my daughter was throwing up at the school and the nurse let her sit in it and she had throw up all over her face and dripping off her hair for 20 minutes until I got there to clean her then I asked the nurse for a rubber band for her hair, she said she didn’t have any, then she found 1 skinny one after I questioned her, then I asked for loaner clothes saying I will return them and the nurse was very agitated, the whole staff was watching with dirty looks and comments including the vice principal. these people are sooo cold hearted, its sad I’ve never seen a school office staff that was this bad. My oldest child is 22 years old and youngest is 8 years old and this staff just makes me wonder if I should keep them at this school I feel horrible for my children.

We came here to sign up my son for school when we moved from Columbus in the middle of the school year.
They were already really helpful on the phone and have a great website, but in person even better.
We filled out all the forms and he got to start the next day!
I was told some of the schools were too full and they don’t always get the closest school but they managed to place my son in a good school about 5 minutes from home.
All is good here, your kids will be in good hands, they genuinly care, which is hard to find these days.

What to say?
This is where my mom has worked for over 20 years (first at Yucca Loma Elementary, next at Rio Vista Elementary). This is where I received my education through high school. I also worked for AVUSD as an after school program aide for about a year.
Sure, there is always some controversy in a school district. Redistricting for elementary and high schools always causes drama. And we all have heard the story about that one superintendent (okay, so there was more than one…). But whatever…
I dig it. I feel smart, my mom is happy, and I think AVUSD does their job.
(now, time for me to use my spell check)