88 out of 10GreatSchools

Donald L. Rheem Elementary School

Moraga, CA
  • Public
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  • Grades K-5
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  • Enrollment: 410

Overview

Donald L. Rheem Elementary School
90 Laird Drive
Moraga, CA 94556
(925) 376-4441
Donald L. Rheem Elementary School is located in Moraga, CA and serves grades K-5.It received a GreatSchool rating of 8 out of 10
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Student Diversity

Race

Percentage

Native American
0%
Pacific Islander
1%
Black
2%
Filipino
2%
Hispanic
7%
Asian
14%
Two or more races
18%
White
56%

Reviews10 Reviews

3.5
parent
I have sent more kids than average to this school. All kids who in a less supportive environment might have floundered and failed and seen their self esteem fall through the floor. Has it been perfect no, because perfection is a pipe dream. But I feel very lucky that my children have been nurtured in an environment that values their whole person and not just their test scores.
parent
My experience has been very good. The office staff and principal immediately recognize us and know who our kids are. The teachers all care and try hard. Is it perfect? No. Its testing results are 10/10, as you might expect for a school mostly teaxhing the children of well-educated and well-off parents, but students' improvement year-to-year is only officially rated at 7/10. That refects pretty good progress educating a pretty easy student population. That is consistent with my experience with my very bright, but very easily distracted, children. There are other schools in the area that get 10/10 in both of these ratings (Albany was one when I last checked). That needs to be the goal.
parent
Our teacher was a bully herself. When I decided to withdraw my child from this school and told the teacher about it, the next day, all kids-related bullying instantly stopped. Yet, when she didn't like his action and class performance in a later event, she humiliated him in front of the class, and the bullying continued even stronger. If your child stands for himself in front of bullies, the school calls it "anger issues" and suggest to take medications. They also prepare the procedure to tailor special-program application for kids, who have normal (higher than average) IQ test results, but their behavior does not meet the teacher’s personal standards. One of the motivations of a principle to do so may be to secure additional financial support and also exclude a "lower than average" kid's grades from the school-wide test results because these affect the evaluation of both the teacher and the principle. If you have any trouble in this school, your kid refuses to study, I suggest you change the teacher. Because otherwise, a principal may do everything in her power to move your kid out of the program or the school. On a side note, when we decided to move our son to a private school, they wrote a letter to the private school anonymously, where they cited "all the issues with the kid" in order to help this private school to "be better prepared to educate him." Unexpectedly for us (and likely very expectedly for the principle) the private school that was initially (after interviewing and testing my son) eager to take him, suddenly changed their position and refused to take my son into their program. I was puzzled as to why a principal and a teacher would do such a thing but later learned that when a kid moves to a private school, it somehow shows the principal in a bad light.
parent
My both sons adore their school! They like their friends, teachers and principal. They feel very comfortable.
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