Chaparral Elementary School

Great school! Great staff. Very impressed with teachers here!

This school is amazing. My son went there and to Ladera Ranch Middle School and then we moved to San Diego. We have a 4 year old now and there is NOTHING like the Ladera Ranch education. Our 18 year old who is the one who went to Chaparral is now entering college with a full ride academic scholarship to Cal Poly SLO. I attribute a big portion of the success to Chaparral and Ladera Ranch Middle School. On top of that, the technology based education and the nightly emails reporting grades made me constantly aware of everything that was happening which was vital to his success. (SCHOOL LOOP). Highly recommend this school.

Great school and staff. My daughter enjoys her school and teacher. Friendly and both of my daughters have a great learning experience

This is my daughter's 5th year at Chaparral and she has had amazing teachers every single year! It has been awesome that there has always been 2 student teachers in the classroom working with the class to bring the ratio down and all have been excellent student teachers from UCI. My daughter is one of the highest ranked students in her class but I think it has a lot to do with her teachers keeping her focused. She is in the Gate program but I'm not too sure what exactly she has been doing that has been different from other kids. I do feel like the community as a whole can be a little "fake" and that the you need to act or dress a certain way to be accepted (kind of like high school). My daughter has a group of friends but I don't know if I see them being lifelong friends for her. Of course there are a handful of parents that are really cool and down to earth but that's the overall feeling I get. I send my other daughter to a different elementary school and the feeling and community among the parents is a lot tighter with more real conversations about life rather than trying to keep up with what someone else's kid is doing or who has the nicest house, etc