Oakridge Private School

My daughter started here this year. She is in pre kinder and loves it! She has learned so much in just the few months of being here. I love seeing how excited she gets when she comes home singing her Chinese songs, telling me what she learned in Spanish and all about the music.
Academically she is is learning lower and upper case, the difference between vowels and consonants and the ready program is unbelievable! Also Oakridge makes it affordable to be able to have my daughter attend here!

Being that this schools tuition is so high, I am very disappointed in Oakridge. I was bullied everyday at this school for years. The staff and teacher would be apart of the students in taking part of the bullying.
The education was terrible, no help from the teachers who majority do not have any degrees to teach young children.
I would never support this school, or send my children there.
” Stephen J.” — Give me all the facts you want, I am sharing the truth, my personal experience.
I was in your schools character building and did not experience what you speak of.
I am voicing my opinion on Unilocal about my past experiences at Oakridge Private School because I would never want anyone else going through that experience with bullying and the lack of help/​support from the staff.
Sincerely,
Not your student.

This school continues to amaze me! There is a school out there that loves and cares for the students, has happy teachers, is a safe environment, all with a challenging curriculum. I love that we are not doing homework like crazy every night, as the majority of the work is done at school, the way it should be… I also love the focus on reading and reading together as a family.

Oakridge has provided a great experience for our child thus far. Preschool was an exceptional adventure in learning– the curriculum was fantastic coupled with the use of a smartboard and other computer technology. The teachers are wonderful and bright and the staff are friendly. The only misgiving I have is they recently replaced their nutritious meal service with a subpar alternative comprised mainly of fast food. Hopefully administration will revert back to the healthier alternative.

Our daughter has been going to Oakridge since Pre-​K and has been met with warmth and love throughout her time there. She’s in third grade now and we plan to keep her there happily through high school The balance between outstanding academics and family values and social development is just as I had hoped it would be. The small class sizes and a very approachable staff has proven to be invaluable for our daughter. In fact, our son went to the school just for a year in the 8^th grade when we moved to Orange and even that short period helped him immensely in creating a good base for high school.” I will never forget after his first month when he said to me «Mom, My teacher today actually wanted to help me»

This school is very academic. At first I guess I really didn’t know what that meant, but after sending my son there for a month and a half, we pulled him out and put him in a different private school. Our son is smart, but also very active, and it took him a while to settle into a kindergarten environment. They also do not have nap or downtime, which was a difficult adjustment for him.
I wasn’t convinced that the teachers were taking the right initiative to get my son where he needed to be, and the school was not very open to hearing the parent’s point of view. This school seemed to be more about the money and status than the students. I was disappointed. I guess my end advice is, consider the unique qualities of your child and if this is the right environment for him or her before you make your decision!

We selected Oakridge Private School for our kids after carefully reviewing ALL of the schools in the Villa Park, North Tustin/​Lemon Heights, Anaheim Hills area both public and private. Having sent our first child to pre-​school elsewhere we were discouraged to find children being sent home in tears each day for little things like forgetting to wear your belt with your uniform that day. We believe school should be a happy place, and fun, to encourage learning. So we left where we were in the first grade with our oldest daughter Mackenzie and headed to Oakridge Private School. Eric and Emma both followed Mackenzie in their time to Oakridge Private School where the atmosphere is always 100% positive, smiling and happy.
How is the education and what are the deliverables at Oakridge Private School? Excellent! The Burry’s, who founded the school have always been true to their beliefs and what works for the Burry’s works for us. Our kids thrived at Oakridge Private School. Small class sizes, personal attention, positive atmosphere, great friends (I can go on) all enabled our children to complete all grades at Oakridge Private School; grades 1 – 8 and finish their education at the top of their class. They competed in Academics, they competed in sports, they completed their STAR testing with exemplary results. My daughter Mackenzie subsequently attended Villa Park High School completely invested in Honors and AP courses and graduated Summa Cum Laude in Math, Chemistry and Physics. I don’t believe she ever got less than an A. She now attends NYU, was just admitted to NYU’s Tisch Film School, the world’s #1 film school much to USC’s chagrin and is currently studying abroad with NYU in London this semester. So far she’s traveled all over Europe while achieving high academic awards as a Scholar/​Athlete playing volleyball for the NYU Violets. Oakridge Private School was a great part of making all of this success possible. Couldn’t be more proud of my daughter and Oakridge Private School.
My son Eric is like Mackenzie and will graduate Summa Cum Laude from Villa Park High School. He is also a Captain of the VPHS Tennis Team, 4-​years Varsity and was Century League Doubles MVP last year. Eric’s Oakridge Private School preparation enabled Eric to amass a singularly awesome and much-​more-​than-​well-​rounded high school resume; Eagle Scout, Boys State, NHS and so much more. He too has never received a grade less than an A fully vested in the toughest Honors/​AP courses VPHS has to offer. He will now attend The University of Notre Dame in the fall double majoring in Business and English (he won the Language Arts Medallion among other things upon graduating VPHS). He’s also going to dip his toe into exploring Industrial Design as a major. Both programs are ranked tops in the nation by Bloomberg, US News, Forbes and other well read publications and school ranking authorities.
Emma just left Oakridge and is a freshman at VPHS. Was Captain of the VPHS Varsity Volleyball Team which won the Century League for the first time in school history and amassed the best record the team has had in school history. Academically, Emma is right on track and well able to perform at the highest VPHS Honor and AP course level. By the way, VPHS is also the #1 academic high school in the Orange Unified School District and VPHS does an amazing job sending their top students to great colleges and universities. Emma LOVES her high school experience. Yes, our kids all worked exceedingly hard at school but I can tell you that Mackenzie, Eric and Emma as well as my wife and myself owe a great deal of the OVERALL success to Oakridge and an Oakridge Private School preparation and environment.
I am not making any of this up. I tell the truth because when you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything :)
If you are smart you will like Oakridge. If your kids apply themselves you will like Oakridge. We found that Oakridge classes ALWAYS kept our kids ahead of what everyone else in their grade was doing at all the other schools. Maybe some were on the same point in places, but not overall. We are diligent in our research and comparison. Though I am from Greenwich, Connecticut my wife is from Villa Park. We know the landscape well.
Oakridge Private School is a winner. Oakridge Private School will increase your child’s odds of success. We bless the Burrys, we bless Oakridge and we bless your children and the decisions you will need to make in choosing a school for your child or children. All I can tell you is that we are very lucky that there is an Oakridge Private School. We were luckier we attended. Oakridge has given all of us a very good journey and I would gladly repeat everything if I had to do it over again. Oakridge is very well run, exceedingly well managed and the kids who want it come out great. And as Forest Gump would say, «That’s all I have to say about that!»
We wish you a good journey too!

Oakridge Private School is AMAZING! My husband and I enrolled our two boys at Oakridge 4 years ago and have been so happy with our decision. They have such a great balance with academics and the way they nurture the students and encourage them to be independent. The environment is safe and warm. I love that the class sizes are small (18 kids in my son’s class and 22 in the other class). The teachers are credentialed and the owners (Mr. and Mrs. Burry) are just simply amazing people. They truly care about the students and they are so hands on. We love this school.

We absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Oakridge. Our first time on campus after meeting with the elementary principal Mrs Valbuena, seeing the classrooms and teachers and feeling the overall warmth and obvious academic excellence throughout, my husband and I immediately knew this was the perfect school for our children. Next came the daunting task of telling our children. Like most kids, they didn’t want to leave their friends. To ease their anxiety, Mrs. Valbuena offered to have our boys visit Oakridge as students for two days to get a feel for it. When I picked them up after their first day they were beaming from ear to ear. They loved everything about it and asked if they ever had to go back to their «old» school. Needless to say, we enrolled them that day. We transferred from a public school in Anaheim Hills due mostly to large class sizes and never looked back. To date, we are continually amazed by the quality of work, the enthusiasm that our children continue to have everyday to go to school and consider our decision to send our boys to Oakridge, our parenting coup!

Preschool to 8^th grade. Sent my son there after transferring from Fairmont Private. The staff at Oakridge were great. Education was excellent, teachers were outstanding. The directors actually did care about their children and listened to what the parents had to say. Would I recommend this school? Absolutely! As a private school, tuition isn’t too bad.
Even ex-​sheriff Corona sent his kid there, but don’t let that deter you.
If you’re looking at a alternative to public education, go to Oakridge and talk to the staff.