Castle Park High School

I’m only here to comment about the field hockey rink and not the school itself. I know nothing about the academics or faculty that are there. My daughter plays field hockey for the school district.
There are several schools that play the sport. Unfortunately, the only school in the entire district that has a field hockey rink is Castle Park High School. Most sports that are played, the students will travel to different schools and play their sport. Unfortunately, every team has to play at this high school. That is really kind of sad that no other school can build a rink. So I give major props to Castle Park High for maintaining the rink and enabling students to play their games!
The only negative thing I see, which is a big one, is there is barely any seating for spectators. We have to stand. They need to build a major bleacher area like they have in Sunset Park. And also should put plexiglass around the bottom area of the fencing so that way hockey pucks don’t breakthrough and hurt spectators. I personally think that ALL the schools that play the sport should pitch in and help Castle Park build the bleachers since they all use the skating rink. It’s only the right thing to do. So if you’re in the area… Go check out a game and support these youngsters.

Castle Park is the best high schools in the area. We did an inter-​district transfer so our children would receive the best education. Teachers go out of their way to help all students. This is a smaller school so teachers and staff know and remember families. I had two children attend Castle Park, our oldest son received many acceptance (St. Johns, Colorado State & Oregon State) and is now attending San Diego State University on a scholarship. The Science Innovation Academy totally prepared with rigorous science courses and meaningful community service. My other son is at Castle Park and taking challenging AP classes and is confident he will be attending UCLA after he graduates in 2017. My wife and I are former military and we give this school 5 stars all the way.

Don’t blame the school. Maybe you should’ve worked harder instead of BSing around. Take responsibility for yourself and don’t blame others.

c/​o 2005
I will never allow my children to attend this school. The faculty and staff are just not in it…

I am a senior currently studying in this school. The teachers deserve five stars! We have very talented and friendly teachers in all levels. You might have a few bad teachers, but I think that is inevitable. The students are also nice, not a lot of crime in this school. Everyone sophomore-​senior year respects each other, not the freshmen who are angry at this school and are unlucky to attend the school the same years I attended.
In the last two years, Diego Ochoa changed this school for the better by enforcing many more tutoring options even though this school had little money. You could tell most of the money went into the tutoring, and even some of the teachers volunteered! What about the kids who didn’t care? Who came tardy in every class? Who didn’t care about their grades? MANDATORY TUTORING! This may sound like a dumb idea, but it helped this school reached its highest attendance and grades in a long time, and we were almost out of program improvement.
Now that the district fired Mr. Ochoa, we have a new principal who worked at Castle Park MIDDLE school. She turned that middle school into a jail. I know, I attended that Middle School. Now this school is headed toward the wrong direction. I’ve never seen so many kids hate this school. The new administration is very unhelpful. If you’re autistic or have ADHD or any learning disabilities, and are willing to go to a prestigious university, they won’t help you much. Even the psychologist won’t help you. He says that most of the students with learning disabilities don’t even try hard. If you have accommodations, they may treat you unfairly. They are not properly trained to help those students.
You know, I’ve only seen the principal ONCE throughout this year, and that was through the window of her office. She has new blinds now, and that’s the last time I’ve seen her. In fact, ask any student if they’ve seen her, and you’ll be lucky if you even find someone that has seen her twice! Her involvement in this school is garbage. She only enforces the same rules that she used in middle school. HELLO, THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL. WE ARE NOT THE SAME EVIL MONKEYS WE WERE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. Honest. We come in peace.
I had a lot of good memories with these wonderful teachers, and they are currently the only people other than my peers who are making my senior year.

Class of 2003!!!
I’d like to say that I’ve maintained great friendships from high school and have awesome memories of football games and swim meets and teachers and of course boys!!!
Most teachers at this school are great however you do have your one or two teachers who just kinda give up on the kids. Unfortunatly this school would of prepared me a lot more for a University!