Rolling Hills Middle School

People tend to flock to this school because of its Los Gatos address and higher API scores. However, my child didn’t have a very good experience. The kids (and some teachers) were mean. The class sizes were large. Individual attention was nearly nonexistent. My child struggled every day. Once in Del Mar High School, however, my child blossomed with the help of their student programs and a little 1:1 help from teachers. It wasn’t long until my child was tutoring other students.
While many kids do fine there, if I had to chose again I would not have chosen Rolling Hills for my child.

Horrible horrible parking! Came to see my kids school sporting event and had to park across street at Safeway! Awful!

I have two kids at this school and been very happy. They have some great teachers and some who are average. The communication between school and home is great. I must say that students are polite and most of them dress properly. School has rules but at the same time give students freedom. I am very happy with this school.

Horrid, if you are looking at this school over Campbell Middle… go with Campbell Middle. People assume this school is good because its located in Los Gatos, they are sadly mistaken. This school has massive problems they just sweep them under the rug rather than deal with them. The sexual harassment is insane and allowed… boys pants each other and call girls very vulgar names with no repercussions. I am amazed at how relaxed they are with bullying, they totally ignore it and teachers are known to actually participate and encourage it with little comments in front of the whole class. If your child is unfortunate enough to get the Mrs. Jones/​Mrs. Alber do yourself a favor and pay for private school, these two couldn’t possibly care any less. Every parent I have talked to felt the same way. They are rude to the children and parents, they dont return calls or emails and treat the children horribly. The only saving grace is Mrs. Davis in 7^th grade, she is an amazing woman with a real passion for children and education. Her love for the children motivates them to reach higher and dream bigger, If they could only clone her and get rid of the rest of those losers!

Some of the teachers are really good, but others are «factory» style and don’t seem to care about any kind of depth of understanding, just crowd control. My biggest gripe, though, is a lack of transparency and communication from the top levels regarding academics, options, etc., and poor overall organization.
Definitely a big factory type school; if you need any kind of individualization, I would look for other options.