Frank C Havens Elementary

Top rated public elementary school in California. School is newly rebuilt since 2010. Top design facilities. Excellent parent participation and the community involved in everything from enrichment curriculum (art, music, movement, math, etc.) to working the hot lunch lines). The science program/​teacher is exceptionally strong and incorporates an environmentally conscious curriculum at every grade level. Kids really feel supported in the community. It’s a great learning environment Rate 5 Star

I think the school is way over hyped. In my experience, the school is mediocre. I think there is a bullying problem that never gets addressed. The academics could definitely be improved. Don’t believe the hype.

I love my school. Just saying.

Havens is beautiful – brand new from the ground-​up, it has wonderful, excellent teachers and a fantastic, involved parent and student community. I would happily give it 5 stars, but have knocked off one because of the principal. She is absent, quiet, floating and unresponsive. Lucky for us, the teachers, students and parents can (mostly) work their away around this problem, so Havens can be in the running for The Greatest Elementary School of All Time!

The Greatest Elementary School of All Time.
Those Beach and Wildwood kids only wish they could’ve gone to the school where the recess blacktop never ends, and the once magical human merry go round existed…
I held my very first lunch time dating show here (at the age of 9), got my one and only ‘memo’ here, and traded my milk tickets for the foil wrapped bacon my buddy would bring from home. (the good ol’ days of milk currency…)
If only life could always be that easy.
Coloring books, a library that used the dewey decimal system, and class pets! Why don’t companies have company pets? Human Resources could have a rabbit, and Business Development could have a snake?
Hot lava monster, tether ball, wall ball and the all important hard top football game. Those were the days.
If I close my eyes, and dig past the muck of the past few years, I can still remember a place where hot dog lunches were the pinnacle of joy.