Glendale High School

Well, I don’t even know where to start from, PRINCIPAL unprofessional, disrespectful, never responds to parents emails nor complains, she cares less. she’s a liar and so are the ones covering for her. I always call the GUSD for anything & she lies to them saying that she responds to our emails… whatever.
She’s never there, always out & whatever you ask her assistance (no help). They claim that I have to talk to the Principal…

Visited 4÷22÷16
Came here to watch a lacrosse game. Been here before. Stands are clean. Multiple places to sit.
Parking several places around the campus. Close to the field.
Went to HS here in the 80’s. At that time it was predominantly Caucasian. I was part of the handful of Asian. The HS was very good. Curriculum and teachers challenging. I don’t know about now.

GHS should be ashamed of their tennis courts. By far the worst I have ever seen in USA. Just look at the pictures and you will agree. The fences are health hazard for the school’s varsity tennis teams as well as visiting teams as well as spectators. It is so rusty and has sharp pieces sticking out. It is a health hazard. The adjacent baseball field has low fences. I once almost got my senses knocked out when a freaking baseball struck me on the hand! Imagine if it hits you on the head… goodbye. Just look at pictures and you will know what I am talking about.

I completely agree with the previous review. When a student comes to Ghs, they have a choice to make. They could either decide to hang out with the drug addicts and the delinquents, or they could focus on classes and making their high school experience a great one. You can’t judge and entire school on a few staff members or a small group of students. Glendale high is how you make it, either a bad or good experience. There will always be ups and downs at ghs, again, like any other school. But I believe the best thing about ghs is it’s well representation of the real world. There are many troubled kids at ghs. People who don’t choose the correct path of life and mainly cause trouble. But you can find many of those people outside if school as well. There are some teachers that you will not like at ghs, but in a job, you may have a boss that you just don’t like. All in all, I find nothing really wrong with Glendale and it’s a great school for a child to learn about life outside of school.

Glendale High school is what you make of it, as mentioned below. I’m looking at the comment below and can’t believe these reviews. One person is judging the school by a bad experience from a teacher, another by an experience from the front desk lady, and another by a security. There are over 200 staff members and most are amazing. As an alumni I am proud of what I’ve become because of GHS. If you choose to hang out with the «bad» kids and mess around then of course it’s not the school for you. You can find trouble in any school you go to. But if you really work hard and learn, this can be an amazing school for you. There are so many great clubs, sports, and after school activities to join. Their arts program is also really good. This includes visual arts, music, drama and dance. They have cooking courses, as well as cosmetology and construction academy. GHS is like no other. I took advantage of these amazing programs and had a wonderful experience.

The school principal is so unprofessional and stupid that she can’t have a meeting with parents regarding any issues.
Instead of having educational environment they are distributing pornography and drugs in the school.
PARENTS !!!
Be very careful before sending your kids to this junkyard school…

I go into the main entrance up to the front desk to request for my transcripts. The lady in the front whose name is «Angela» is on the phone speaking in Armenian about a wedding for 3 min. While I’m standing there waiting for service. She gets off the phone and starts talking to her student helper. By this time 5 min has gone by and I’m thinking to myself where the hell did they find this person from, off the street? SO UNPROFESSIONAL! I was expecting for a smile and a how may I help you? The rudest lady on the planet!

I am sorry but i was very disappointed to have to send both of my daughters to this public school. I mean when you have to drop off your kids and see a POLICE car there all the time which a policeman is assigned to that school all the time because of constant fights between Mexicans & Armenians what can you do as a parent but hope and pray that nothing happens to them. My daughters have their own opinions which i am sure they would gladly like to speak for themselves but i did not enjoy hearing all the stories of how there were constant gang fights daily during lunch and how many times their friends were getting jumped and were outnumbered. I hated having to deal with the constant headaches of the campus being over crowded and the classrooms size was more then some of the teachers could handle. Public schools in Glendale changed and i was so sorry to have to take my daughters out of the private schools i had them in due to the high cost of living but it got difficult to ignore so many problems at this high school and my daughters had many friends i just didn’t like what i saw as a parent going on in there.

Don’t go here staff likes to molest the children.

Great place to go walk or run around the track. Well taken care of… Lots of people. Makes exercising fun!

Glendale High is exactly what you make of it, no other way around it. With a school of over 3000 students, there is enough variation in order to make every stereotype that was listed in other reviews false. Sure, if you take a walk around campus during lunch you will superficially see race, but that is only because you can’t help but see the obvious first. Glendale High has a plethora of students, from the most studious and academic to the ones that struggle to graduate, you are bound to meet people that you will be able to relate to. Unlike other higher ranking high schools, Glendale High most closely mirrors the real world, with its huge diversity race-​wise, academic-​wise, and economic-​wise.
The teachers are a hit or miss. There are horror stories of some teachers who will sit at their desk engrossed in the online stock market and not care one bit about the class before them, other teachers who will rant about their lives and give biased moral lessons, and others who are extremely pompous and spend so much time talking about what amazing teachers they are but never actually show the students their so-​called amazing teaching skills. Other teachers are incredible and inspiring, some treat you like college students and give you hours upon hours of homework, others teach you how to write brilliantly and refuse to sugar-​coat your grades, and the best never give up on their students. The biggest problem at Glendale High is that teachers give up within a few years at the school from the difficult students they encounter in their classrooms. The sad part is, its the students who suffer the most because these are the classes where the teachers don’t spend the full class hour teaching and instead allow the students to socialize, text, or sleep after their short assignment is complete.
As a student with big dreams, the mix of good and bad teachers prepared me to pushed myself to be independent academically and learn how to study when no exact outline was given for an upcoming test or essay. Although at times it can be easy to blame the bad teachers for all your problems, it is hardly justifiable because the key to success is within yourself, ghs is the door to success, it just refuses to hold your hand through this door. If you are devoted to your grades, you will make it.
Most clubs at ghs are a joke for the most part, many students create them at the beginning of the year to make them official but they quickly stop about a few weeks after round-​up, leading to an apathetic student body.
Sports and the arts are one of the best ways to get involved as there is actually a faulty member or coach who makes sure that practices are held. Glendale High’s drill team is the best in the country, however it requires an enormous commitment on the dancer’s part. Football gets the most attention at our school even though they haven’t won many games, but almost half of Glendale manages to show up during homecoming, the most spirited week fo ghs.
If you are nervous about attending ghs or sending your child here, don’t be. Just this year we had two people go on to Ivy League schools, 20 or so go to UCLA, CAL, USC, and so many more go on to other notable universities. So any gossip that you may hear that GHS’s API score is falling and will affect college admission to your dream school, don’t worry, it simply is not true.
The majority of students go on to GCC or PCC if they are simply not ready right out of high school to go to a 4-​year university.
I’m not going to lie and say my experience at GHS was completely amazing and will be for everyone else as well, but I feel that because I joined cheer, took classes I heard had interesting teachers, and got involved with tutoring kids who needed extra help, I grew to enjoy the time I spent at my high school. I was able to get into ucla, cal, and usc, all admissions I feel were attributed to the education I recieved from wonderful teachers such as Ms. Ozawa, Mr. Kolodinski, Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. Mkrtchian, Ms. Erikson, Ms. Metcalf, and Mrs. Ciotti. I strongly reccomend these teachers to students who truly want someone who will challenge them and help them grow into better people.

I attended my youngest brother’s graduation yesterday and his award ceremony last week here at G.H.S. I hadn’t been here since my freshman year, going back brought many memories back not necessarily the ones I would want to keep in mind as I walked i was reminded of were i used to hang out at lunch and snack, the immature fights I had at the gym, the classrooms were I probably had some good teachers but I’ll
never know since I would rarely be in class, the spots were I used to make out and the locations were I got caught when I should of been in class, I eventually graduated but not from G.H.S. They didn’t want me then, and I don’t blame them.

Went here for the full 4 years of my high school life…
what a nigh mare at times, but the teachers made it up.
the ones i remember were;
Mr Dugger for drama
Ms Berent for english
Ms lowe for PE
and a couple few that i forgot the names but were pretty damn cool too!
the students were lame though, we were going through new phases of hate crimes all the time, typically between the Mexicans and the Armenians, always been rivals here, and with the gay community here. i guess students here didnt really have an open mind in my years of attending there.
the place has no uniforms but is stick on the dress code, they had monthly dances, which were OKAY and they had lots of activities always going on…
the bid activity is the game between hoover our major rivals, most of the time Glendale beats them in our annual football games but Hoover campus is much prettier than Glendale’s.

A faucet in the bathrooms will either not work or won’t be able to be closed so the water will fill the sink. Faculty seemed more concerned with departmental drama. I used to teach art here but it was more like babysitting because administration would dump problem kids in my classes. I’ve caught teens playing PSP during demonstrations and throwing water at each other indoors. The campus is overcrowded.

You all remember high school as being the singular most amusing 4 years of your life, in the tragic sense, of course. Ah, the Armenian thugs, the few left over white kids, and the cliched stoners with their black attire. Adding the horrible lay out of all the buildings. ah, how fun it is to remember. Not.