Woodland Hills Private School – Oxnard St. Campus

My son started in the two year old class in October. I could not be happier with the campus or the staff. The barnyard curriculum is a unique and special aspect of the school. The grounds are beautiful and spacious and lead to many opportunities for outside play. The classes have dedicated Teachers for the entire year allowing the children to bond with their teacher and reduce separation anxiety at drop off. My son has truly thrived and grown exponentially since beginning at Woodland Hills Private School. I would highly recommend to any parent. It is a great school that is clean and well cared for with both teachers and administrators who care for both the child and their families.

Before moving to the San Fernando Valley from Beverly Hills I have researched for months the preschool that I would be placing my 3 year old daughter after we move.
After much research I have decided to give WHPS my number one choice and made my appointment for the Private tour.
Christine, who is the preschool co-​director, gave my husband and I a private tour of the school and grounds.
The minute we met Christine and started to feel the school my husband and I both felt that we are confident and thrilled that we have found the perfect preschool for our precious Ella.
Ella started the summer camp program before the preschool year had actually began.
My daughter had so much fun that she was literally counting the hours till the next camp day. The summer was fantastic!!!
When preschool started in mid August it was just as great. The love, caring, dedication, and nourishing of this school keeps getting better and deeper each day.
My daughter loves coming to school and literally can’t wait until Monday to return for another week.
Academically, she has learned and expanded her educational abilities in an unbelievable pace.
She has matured and became self confident and independent. Her social skills also took new heights.
I am so thankful to this school and to Shaleena, the Director and Christine, the co-​Director who do an amazing job with this Preschool.
I am so thankful and beyond happy that my daughter gets to attend this great school 5 days a week, 9:00 — 3:00.(full day program)
I would highly recommend this preschool to any parent who wants nothing but the best for their child.
Merav M (Ella’s Mom)

I am so impressed by Woodland Hills Private Elementary School. The building and grounds offer everything from a well kept playground to a barnyard complete with a variety of animals and experts to teach the children about them. The faculty is highly qualified, and they offer a 12:1 student-​teacher ratio. The Assistant Head of Schools is very knowledgeable about innovations in curriculum, standards, and technology. I feel certain the students are receiving a cutting edge education and will be ready for Chaminade, Sierra Canyon, or any of the best schools in the area. More importantly, the kids are so kind and creative. It’s like a big loving family there.

This school is so far behind academically you will feel as if you wasted 12k going here and then be stuck sending your child to tutoring when you switch schools and they have to catch up. I am qualified to write a review after being at this school for years. My child was advanced at this school and once we left, and at tutoring, even the tutor says my child doesn’t even have a foundation for math that they should have… Yikes! Thank god I supplemented with Reading bc we read not even two books last year, and the second book wasn’t even finished by the class. You are better off trying the lottery at Woodland Hills Elementary. LAUSD, even LVUSD is WAY better. And oh, Free.

What an awesome school this is. We are first year parents and couldn’t be happier with our daughter’s development in her first year. The teachers and staff at WHPS are fantastic and the facilities are amazing.

It’s truly a gem. Teachers and staff are some of the best I’ve ever seen and experienced. There is a vast variety of programs offered, small class room sizes, a barnyard, and plenty of activities planned during the annual calendar. It is truly a magical environment and your child will get the attention and commitment he/​she needs to excel in all areas. I couldn’t be happier with my choice.

As parents of two children that attend WHPS, we have been grateful for the opportunity to have our children be apart of a community that cares about the well-​being of each student. It’s evident by the quality of the staff/​teachers, their commitment to creating a learning environment that produces one of the most remarkable institutions in the valley. This beautiful hidden oasis in Los Angeles has recreated an environment where children can thrive, explore, dream and learn while having fun doing so. Our children have enjoyed attending the unique & memorable events, field trips, getting to know & learn about the WHPS farm animals on campus, and much more. As a parent, to be apart of the WHPS has been rewarding, building long term relationship with other families, teachers and staff. In short, if attending WHPS is an option, we would recommend Woodland Hills Private School.

Each time I visit and spend time on campus, it’s remarkable for me to experience the staff’s warmth and obvious sincere investment in making the community positively supportive for the children. It’s clear they love what they do. It’s great that the children have the opportunity to interact with different age levels due to the campus’ size; it helps them learn life lessons in how to be tolerant of others’ capacities, adaptable and generous.

My son joined WHPS Collins campus as a preschooler, and now attends their Oxnard campus. He’s in second grade and doing well beyond my hopes and expectations! He was a very shy and introverted boy and I felt that a big campus might just overwhelm him and he would get lost in a sea of kids! Not only has he thrived with the help of great nurturing teachers, but he is excelling academically and has achieved two trimester awards already! I absolutely love the faculty and administration! Everyone is there to help and guide us nervous parents and teach our kids in a fun and stress free environment! My daughter joined last year, and I have no doubt she will do just as well as my son! Shout out to all the amazing teachers, and coach!

I am a parent of WHPS and a teacher. I love the environment that the school has to offer. The grounds are so beautiful and kept nicely. There is the barnyard which is such a strong part of the school. The children love to learn about the animals and visit them, and the lessons are wonderfully taught by the barn teachers. they make it exciting and very interactive.
There is also the outdoor classroom where the children can play or learn. They have many materials for the children to play with such as magnifiers, paint, paper, balls, glue, scissors, and much more. It is a great learning environment.
WHPS has a great philosophy, one that I go by. It is so important to keep in mind what is developmentally appropriate for each age group. Also to understand that children learn at different times not all are alike. That is why this school is so great the teachers understand who they are teaching and how they should approach their days. I highly recommend this school as a parent not just as a teacher. You can’t go wrong with the teacher you get.

My daughter started a public charter school and within 5 days, I was calling private schools to move her. I emailed WHPS on a Friday night, and by Saturday, I had already been in contact with the principal. I then «dropped by» the following Monday, having no idea it was their first day of school, and the principal made time for me, giving me a full tour of the school and talking to me about an IEP for my 5 year old. By the following week, she was attending WHPS and I have never looked back. Here are the 5 things I love best about WHPS.
1) Individualized education plans. Over the first three weeks, students are assessed and their teachers are careful to make sure they are challenged, but also learning at the right level.
2) the communication with parents– HUGE. Through room parents, the parents association, and Facebook pages and groups, there is no reason why any parent can say they didn’t receive any communication regarding things happening at the school.
3) the schedule. Making sure children are using their time wisely, they do math and reading first thing in the morning, and leave the enrichment classes to the afternoon.
4) Security and convenience. Their first priority is the safety of all students, yet they make it convenient for parents to drop off, provide extra care if needed for work, and even babysitting nights during meetings and other events.
5) Lack of cement. My mom once said to me, the school that has less cement will have more opportunities for children to explore and learn.
In the area where we moved from, this school would have been out of everyone’s price range. But in this area, I found it to be a very good price for private education. We are not a family who is «well off» by any means. But we made our child’s education the most important expense only second to our mortgage. We have not regretted our decision one bit.

After sending my daughter to this school for a year I decided to pull her out due to her not being challenged academically. The school believes in mixing kids in different grade levels and this means that there’s a chance that your child may have to be in a classroom primarily made up of kids younger than them for an entire year. They left me feeling as if they don’t really care about the kids feelings or the parents for that matter. Very negligent all around to the point that my daughter went on an unauthorized field trip. If you truly care about academics more than a nice campus look elsewhere! Parents beware!

My daughter had so much fun in this school as a pre-​k er. Friendly teachers and friendly family. Nice playground and variety of activities. I just wished for a cleaner and neater classroom and toys.

We have been at WHPS for many years. My older son started at the school when he was 3 and is now in 4^th grade. My youngest started at age 2 and is now in kindergarten. My experience with both the preschool and the elementary have been excellent! My older son has ADHD and other issues and everyone has been very helpful and understanding. I appreciate that the teachers have always been willing to work with me rather than write him off. Because of that, he is now thriving. The class size and the individual approach are what makes this school great. I can’t forget to mention the wonderful teachers and staff. They are all top notch!
There is also a very active parents group that brings a lot of fun activities for the children. Everyone in the community really cares about the community and that is why we have been here for so long.

The little lady and I sent our littlest one here for 3 years of pre-​k and had an absolutely wonderful experience. Our daughter loved everything about going to school and summer camp, loved having a farm on site as well as gardening, two swimming pools, and all of the great friends she made, and teachers she adored. I also felt something missing, and I think I can nab it right in the butt, the owners. On a business level, I had been making camp shirts for the school for two years, on the third year I submitted my estimate and got the run around from a staff member that I had never dealt with before. I tried leaving Wentar (owner) many messages, emails, phone calls and even trying to meet up with him on the campus with not one courtesy from him returning an email, phone call, message. NOTHING after two weeks, nothing at all from Wentar. It seems Wentar went with a cheaper price, which I said I would match, only cheaper because the 7 color logo on the back which my wife designed for free, was turned into a 3 color logo that looks like a blob on the new cheap looking camp shirt, which like I said, I would have matched and given the same QUALITY and SERVICE I had done for the years prior. If that’s how owners conduct business, it must trickle down in one way or another on how their school runs and feels. Pinecrest here we come.

I am a researcher and analyst by profession — so I can say with confidence that my husband and I put a lot of time and thought into picking the right schools for our children. We were so happy to have found Woodland Hills Private School, and we (along with all the parents in our classes) were quite sad the day that our children graduated from the WHPS «family». The teachers and administrators are always warm and welcoming — there’s always an open door policy. No issue or question is too large or too small. The staff takes the time to understand and prioritize each individual child’s needs in the classroom. Each of my two children were quite different, but both got the emotional and academic learning they needed to succeed inside and outside of the classroom to become independent and confident children. There is an abundant amount of parent involvement and the Parent Association Group is incredibly active and brings unique events to campus that you won’t find at other schools in the area. I can’t speak highly enough of the school, the curriculum, and the staff. Most of all, my kids looked forward to school every day. I would recommend WHPS to any parent looking for a great start to their child’s emotional and academic foundation.

I’ve been taking my child here for five months now. I know some reviews confuse «summer camp» and «school,» but I’m speaking about the school. It’s amazing. My child is just over two years old and speaks in full and complete sentences; past, present, and future tense… knew the ABC’s within a month (and us working at home), knows numbers, etc.
I love the social aspect of this school too; teaching them how to stand their ground and tell other kids to not take things from them, how to ask for what they want, and so on.
The school also brings in different ‘themes’, like a snow day, where they truck in snow and let the kids sled and they can various classes while there too, like dancing and gymnastics.
Anyway, just wanted to check in and say it’s still great. Personally, I’m glad the school challenges my child to learn and not just go through the motions… it’s not daycare. It’s school.

what Dana said was right this place is missing immense the certain something and that certain something was letting the kids be kids, its pretty institutional. The kids cannot get water until a certain time, My nanny charge went here (from preschool-​2^nd grade and even atteneded the summer camp) and all the time the teacher said she was not doing this or not focusing on this or that, mind you she was five at the time they said that. Oh and the summer camp?! they make the counselors do «EDUCATIONAL» things, ie dittos, literally forcing the children to SIT and listen to lecutres and that such, seriously this is a summer camp The director of the school, Anne has her head stuck in the fifties. I attended the morning meet up and the other counselor who wanted to do schools out for summer was shot down because Anne said «the kids would like the yogi bear song… «seriously more words and these kids had no idea who yogi bear was. my nanny charge kept asking me who yogi bear was!
this school would be better if Anne was not principal other than that it can be good, but if shes there run for the hills!

There is really nothing wrong with this school… great playground on both the Collins and the Oxnard campuses, lovely staff, nice teachers, nice parents. yada yada yada. But for me it was missing that certain «something»…warmth, charm, whatever you want to call it. We came from a Temple Judea program where every teacher was like your grandma and every day felt like «home». WHPS was great, but definately not like Temple Judea.