Harbor High School

This school needs some love. They are way behind the updates the Bay Area schools have.

Don’t send your high school students to this school. Here’s my story
I went to this school Freshman through Junior year, those years were hell. From the first year I was there I realized the teachers think that because they are teachers they can say whatever they want to you and the drug problem at that school that most of the students are too high to know whats going on around them. When you step into the school you can see a very apparent race war between the students, the white kids all clump together in a group at the bottom of the stairs and the kids of Latino decent are all at the top of the stairs kicking apples at each other.
My second year that I went there I dealt with my best friend getting drunk on whiskey during one of the extended lunches on club rush and he tried to rape me. I begged for help and no one helped me for over thirty minutes as I fought to keep my clothing on, people watched, the principal even passed by and no one helped me. After I told my mom about what had happened, she reported it to the school and they called the police. Not because they were concerned for my well being but because «they did not want to be sued.» The school was very rude about the whole experience, asking why I didn’t report it until after the weekend and what I was wearing. The kid got arrested and there was a court ordered restraining order for when the boy got out.
Here is where I know about how bad the drug problem is at that school, I started smoking and drinking out in the open on the football field and NO ONE DID ANYTHING. The school is located in a place with a lot of trees, it is easy to hide there and drink or smoke. We were even caught by a teacher who did nothing.
My junior year was a stressful year, I was struggling with not having any friends and plummeting grades. I was also being attacked by other students and the school did nothing. They act like they will help you if your not doing well in school, but honestly they don’t care about the failing students. They just care about the students who get all A’s. I had a teacher who took my book and ripped the pages out of it because I wasn’t doing what he said to do, but I was finished with the project so i was reading a book. Then in the last couple weeks of school they allowed the boy who tried to rape me back into the school. The restraining order was still in full effect and when I told the school he had begun stalking me they said that they’ll talk to him. He still did it and they did nothing to stop it so I left the school.
Please don’t send your high school students here, the school is a terrible place where students do drugs, have sex in the forest around the school, the kids segregate themselves, the teachers abuse their power, and your child could get sexually assaulted by someone and they’ll let the child back into the school to torment your child.

love this school have two kids here!

You saved me from Anzar, and I made some of my best friends for life here. I’ll always be a green-​and-​gold booty-​hungry-​pirate.

Obviously the best high school in Santa Cruz… but that’s not saying a lot.
Though some of the teachers suck a whole lotta donkey (but find me a school that doesn’t), you can’t beat everything else.
The new campus is nice (besides the stairs…), the art classes are fun (holla at Graphic Arts), the MPR is… useful (but not really…) and we put on great musicals, plays, choir recitals, band performances and dance company performances.
In the sports department we’re…well…we’re in the paper a lot. So… take that.
Many would say that we suck when it comes to offering AP classes and advanced electives. And they’d be exactly right. For shame Harbor.