Enrique S. Camarena Elementary School

I now have two children attending this school and it seems to be a very good school. The teachers are so enthusiastic about teaching and appear to really care about the students. This school has the kids using the latest technology, opportunities for the kids to participate in music classes, art, singing, dancing, public speaking.
My only concern with this school is that there seems to be a high turnover in staff. This is the school’s 3^rd year and several teachers have left each year, the principal recently left and the vice principal.

This school has the best teachers! My daughter is very happy to be part of the Camarena family.
Dr. Winters is an amazing principal.

The woman at the office was as helpful enrolling my children into school as a football bat. I had to return on 6 occasions to get them registered. Then, a week into classes, the school calls me telling me my children are being transferred to a different school due to overcrowding. My children who only live a block away have to be bussed from camarena to wolf canyon yet they are bussing in students farther from the school. The school claims to be exclusively for children who live in the area so I can’t understand how they have room for students that need to ride a bus to school but not for my family that lives one block away. On top of that, the staff seem to have their heads so far up their backside that they can’t help parents with enrollment questions and in the week my children attended, my 5 year old son didn’t get lunch 2 of those days even though he has an account. I guess the staff assume that a 5 year old kid must know where and how to get lunch in a new school.
After a month, they transferred my children back but I found their education standards to be pathetic. I moved my family out of state to get my children a decent education. Any parent that truly cares about their child’s education should not only avoid this school but California in general.

Great school for a growing community. Since its new, it has a few hiccups but the staff is knowledgeable and great. The school is growing «hip with the times» and is very tech savvy. Only bad thing is the parking and traffic. All in all, so far so good!