Ardenwood Elementary School

School is good and principal very nice. The staff at front desk is SO RUDE that you will not feel like talking to them. There is one nice lady who speaks very nicely but all others have no clue on how to behave professionally. There are other reviews with similar feedback and I am really surprised no one ever has complained against this kind of behavior in a public institution. Hope someone will teach them a few things about how to behave properly.

This is message for home buyers in ardenwood area:
This is one the most over hyped area. Big trap. I am living in this area for some time and other than this elementary school nothing is good in this area for kids. Shops and community are not good, you need to drive at least 5 miles for small small things, frequent crime incidents, internet and wireless networks are really very bad and daily call drops are very common.
Schools teachers are OK. This area doesn’t has much opportunity to grow in future because of income level of most of the people living here. Price of homes are gone twice (at least) than they deserve.

They may have high ratings as a school but their staff is rude and arrogant. Parents are treated very badly with sarcastic remarks such as «you probably won’t get in for at least 3 years if you are on the wait list». My daughter was on the wait list and they never notified us when she was accepted, we only found out when her teacher emailed us and they kept calling why she wasn’t coming to school. When we spoke with them about why they could not notify us, they did not believe us when we said we were contacted by her teacher and their excuse for not telling us about my daughter’s admission was «we can’t make 900 phone calls». One mailing list and one email is all it takes to keep parents updated. I would not recommend a school where adults do not know how to behave, don’t like their job and can’t act professionally. P. S. Her teacher could not even spell simple words correctly in her email, I would not have high hopes from a teacher like that.

I went to Ardenwood Elementary School from first grade all the way to sixth grade. I graduated Ardenwood in 2007. The principle of Ardenwood is Mrs. Rugg, she has been there all six years I attended Ardenwood, and guess what? She’s still principle at Ardenwood! She was an extremely good principle, helpful to all staff, students, and parents! We had two Vice– Principles, Mrs. Ashford & Mrs. Pass. Mrs. Ashford was the nice vice principle and Mrs. Pass was the mean one. My teachers at Ardenwood are as follows: 1^st Grade– Mrs. Uriu, 2^nd Grade– Mr. Faria, 3^rd Grade– Mrs. Turpin & Mrs. Schlobohm, 4^th Grade, Mrs. Wada & Mrs. Silveria, 5^th Grade– Mrs. Tibbs, and 6^th Grade– Mr. Gracey. All of my teachers were great! Our librarian was Mrs. Key, who was very nice and convinced us to READ, READ, READ! Our Computer Lab teacher was Mrs. Nichols, who made Computer Lab fun with all of the computer games! For Science we had Mrs. Kagel (who is now at American), she was nice and helpful. Now with Physical Education we had Mrs. Fragoza & Mr. Sakamoto, they both made PE Class fun and exciting! Ardenwood Elementary is now a California Distinguished School. When you do something good, you receive a Caught Being Good slip, where you can earn a reward if your name gets drawn on Friday’s. Everyone at Ardenwood cares about the students, parents and the community. Ardenwood has a great community of students and parents!
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Awww, fond memories of this school. =)
I went here when I was in 3^rd grade and then I left to go to a private school in Hayward.
While I went here, I had a lot of shit happened to me.
There were some good and bad times.
I loved the mascot the Dragon! hehe… lol! =p
I hated the red square, that’s when you go there when you behave badly in class…=(
Been there and done that shit… LOL!!!