Ernest Righetti High School

Righetti is a good school, the best public high school in our city. Since I attended over 20 years ago, it has become over-crowded, but all the high schools in our area are, and school officials are doing a pretty good job with the difficult position they are in. The one complaint I have is the teachers with tenure are to complacent, especially those who coach. My son plays 3 sports and there were horrible politics on every single team. Coaches/teachers should be held accountable and if they are not meeting expectations they should be replaced. It seems many of them have a very arrogant attitude as if they cannot be touched no matter how badly they treat their teams. Perhaps if their jobs were performance based they would do a better job teaching as well as coaching.
--Submitted by a parent

Great school for my kids even during this financial meltdown in California. My son is happy and he's being given a clear path to college so I am happy.
--Submitted by a parent

The teachers were great, the curriculum when I went there was broad and put together well. I enjoyed my four years there and wish those same great teachers the best.
--Submitted by a parent

Righetti was selected as a California Distinguished School for good reason: The staff has workded very hard to implement innovative teaching strategies aligned with content standards. They have worked on developing professional learning communities to improve insturction, assessment and student outcomes.
--Submitted by a parent

The parents/students that say this school is poor are likely just mad that their kids/they performed poorly. I just graduated from here and am going to Yale after four wonderful years at Righetti. If you enroll in the advanced classes, you will not get a 'bad teacher' of any sort. I took a few college prep courses and didn't get any bad teachers there either. My graduating class alone had about 13 acceptances to UCLA, 9 to UC Berekely, 1 to MIT, 1 to Caltech, 2 to Stanford, 1 to Columbia, 1 to Yale, and 1 to Rice (many other colleges, both private and public, also accepted students). Anyone that complains about this school is likely disappointed that it holds itself to a high standard by expecting students to take responsibility (reference to the parents complaining about their kids failing) and to do actual work, simple as
--Submitted by a student

Your Righetti High School experience is what YOU as an individual make it to be. Nothing will be handed to you on a silver platter, that's for sure. But if you want to get the best education you can get, you'll get it if you work for it. That's life. Nothing's going to get handed to you. The only problem with this school is that teachers and students are caught on a vicious cycle: Students aren't excited about learning because teachers aren't excited about teaching and vice versa. If it could all stop, the school would be a much better place. I personally like Righetti very much, and enjoy all of my classes, despite how many people don't enjoy it there.
--Submitted by a student

I was a student and it had very low standards for their education and they focused on having everyone in class no on having those who were there learn anything of use

Im a student and I love it over their I made so much more friends then I ever had and a lot of the teachers are very supportive of their students helping them reach their goals or making them.
--Submitted by a student

Righetti is definitively going to get better as time proceeds. With our new solid administration, more organization will be established. Mr. Molina is working for the kids and is a good leader for Righetti. I would have to say that the staff is very friendly and that students with initiate will go far here.
--Submitted by a student

The school is definatley over crowded. Im a junior at righetti and have been here for every yrear but my freshman, and ive like the students, but not many of the teachers. They dont show that they care at all, and the administration is very non existant. You have to be a parent that is yelling or a asb student to ever get noticed in the office, and if you do get noticede, they act like your a criminal for even going in there. If i were a parent, i wouldnt send any student to this school.
--Submitted by a student