Del Oro High School

Del Oro has been the best experience for us& my kids Excellent staff and academics & best in their finacials! We love Del Oro High!!
--Submitted by a parent

All three of my kids attend Del Oro. They are so happy there. It is a good cross-section of society and everyone for the most part gets along and is supportive and encouraging of one another. There are kids from money who go there but they don't flaunt it. The parents are involved and care. The small town of Loomis cares. A small town is like a big family. Del Oro has that comfortable feeling.
--Submitted by a parent

This is an amazing high school. Almost everybody you meet will be friendly and the teachers are very nice, too. The academics are fairly challenging - of course you could find a private school with incredible academics but for a public school in California it's perfectly decent. The athletics are really, really good and the football games are SO AMAZING....The cafeteria food is pretty good compared to most schools; they have a lot of great options no matter what your diet is like. Anybody who gives this school a negative review clearly never went there or basically sleeps through the school day :D. I doubt you'll find a better school in all of California and possibly in the nation.
--Submitted by a student

Del Oro is nothing more than an average, average high school. There's a lot of "OH MY GOSH IT'S THE BEST SCHOOL EVER" but it really isn't. Maybe this isn't unique to Del Oro but I've seen people full on making out on campus; if I wanted to do that, I would go somewhere private! It's disgusting - DO should ban it. I also think there's a little too much focus on athletics. DO has not sent anybody to Standford or Harvard and the attitude is "I'm going to Sierra College". I gave the school three stars because I do think still that some of the academics are challenging and some of the peeps are friendly.
--Submitted by a student

This is gonna be truly hard to write but I want to say thanks to Del Oro. I can't even begin to explain how amazing this school is &how much I wish I was there for my Senior Year. The spring term of my Junior year there was great. I met the most amazing people of my life there. I am so sad that I am not going there anymore, but the teachers are great. They will do anything to help us succeed and get closer to graduation. The administration was great as well, the counslers were awesome, &of course the principle &vice principles were the best. If it wasn't for Del Oro I wouldn't be where I am at today. Everyone is so supportive, especially the students. I would honestly do anything to be back. I hope to be visting soon, Del Oro keep doing awesome because you change lives (: -Katie Hanks.
--Submitted by a student

I switched districts to attend Del Oro and it made all the difference in my education. From my first day as a freshman, I found myself surrounded by an enormously supportive group of teachers and friendly students ready to welcome me. I participated in the marching band, a wide variety of clubs and was given amazing preparation by my teachers and counselor for applying and being accepted to all of the top-ranking colleges I applied to.
--Submitted by a student

For a rural high school, Del Oro was a good experience for my daughter, Morgan May, but she decided to transfer to another school. Our family returned to Placer County from Boulder, CO, home of the University of Colorado, where she completed her freshman year at Fairview High School, heavily populated with the offspring of professors. Morgan found Del Oros's students friendly and quickly made many friends. She had two teachers that soured her experience here. One was her Biology teacher...he was actually a creationist, and often made factual errors, or was ignorant of so much taking place in the field of Biology. The other was one Mr. Sanchez, Morgans Sophomore English teacher that replied to her complaint of receiving a low B, that "You will never attend a major university." Well, Mr. Sanchez (now retired I see), Morgan graduated from UCLA in 2005 with her degree in Biology, a far better school than you attended.
--Submitted by a parent

I'd been to 3 different schools in two years. One in the Bay Area before I moved, and then Granite Bay High School. I was then transferred into Rocklin High School the next term. After expressing concerns with Rocklin, my adoptive parents moved me to Del Oro, where I now just graduated from. Del Oro...is like no other. Their spirit, their teachers, their students, their talent-it's all unparalleled to the other schools. I was blown away by how many people gave me a warm welcome on the first day. So overwhelmed in fact that I broke into tears of joy. I didn't think it was possible to meet supportive people like my peers at Del Oro, or that I could turn my destructive lifestyle into a great one. But with the help of the brilliant staff, students, and even janitors, I am now attending a four year college (UCSC) and planning to get my credential so I can come back and teach at the only place who taught me what the word "home" really meant. Del Oro High School. You won't find a better school, I promise.

Overwhelming community support, teachers are incredible, students are highly respectable.
--Submitted by a parent

Great tradition, community involvement and support.
--Submitted by a parent