Cantara Street Elementary School

i used to come here a long time ago. its not the best school but for me it was. I went until half of 5th grade then moved to fresno. the schools lunch was good the teachers were nice and there after school program was great...i used to be the schools vice president. idk if they still have that though O.o. im am now goin to finish 8th grade and go to high school. i think this school is great!

There are few teachers who actually care for the student. The principle doesn't care what complaints you have against a teacher, and act like your the only one who is to blame. As stated below they very much need to improve their bedside manner because they have horrible attitudes towards parents.
--Submitted by a parent

Pre-School teacher Mrs. South is one of the greatest teachers I have ever met. She is WONDERFUL!!!! This might not be one of the greatest schools, however there are some really great teachers.
--Submitted by a parent

Dumbing down of Gifted students & raising up of underacheivers. Feels "politically correct." My child has busted his but on projects and gotten under graded while Iv'e seen some pretty bad work that got great grades. Maybe the Teacher is evening the playing field, but it's upseting to see that hard work doesn't always get recognized. Thank goodness for the CST scores, they can't play with those.
--Submitted by a parent

This school does so much for it's students. It also reaches out to the community. All who visit agree, It's a great place to send you child if you want them to learn and be apart of something good. The librarian is a dynamo who is just one of many that gets the ball rolling. It's a "gem" of Reseda!!!
--Submitted by a parent

parents need more information regarding the needs of there child. Sometimes students are not ready to enter into Kindergarten and are unprepared and not sure how to handle the needs of the child.
--Submitted by a parent

i graduated from this school it rocks , i love the teachers!!!

This school has a few good teachers, but is overall a very unhealthy environment for children. Staff is closed to new ideas and instruction is not a priority.
--Submitted by a parent

After reading the August/2006 comment - I agree, 100%. The staff in the main office are the worst ever - very cliquish - the staff and teachers need to take courses to improve their bedside manner. It will take years and years of training to get this school back to the once high standards it had before. Real disappointment of the under-qualified personal working their all the way from the top to the bottom. There's exceptions of course of some teachers who really care, but so few. This place needs a revamping of replacement of new people. High school students could run it better.
--Submitted by a parent

My children enjoyed most of their Cantara experience. I will say that every teacher was either a total win or a total loss. There are teachers at Cantara that work really hard and have extremely high expectations. But others seem to be lacking in teaching knowledge. After having a really bad third grade teacher, I asked the principal to switch my daughter into a better fourth-grade teacher's classroom, as the male teacher she was placed with doesn't have a good reputation. The principal wouldn't even consider it. My daughter ended up having trouble in writing and math the next two years, and we needed to get her a tutor to help bring her up. The parents that are involved are great, but it was hard to participate in a lot of things because most parents would only speak Spanish. They don't have a lot of extra activities.
--Submitted by a parent