Santa Maria High School

Posted: October 20, 2022

The school is a fairly average for being a public institution, however I applause the some of the teachers and staff for showing care and support for the students. While not perfect I don't believe the school deserves a low rating or negative review because of its major transformation it had in students and teachers. The school needs more improvement on keeping a safe clean campus as it is experiencing an influx of violence and unsafety now that I am currently writing this. The teachers and staff have put more of an effort in evolving this school from mediocre forget it, to opportunity and remembrance. They still need major improvements in cleanliness and safety as those are the two major issues the campus faces currently.

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Posted: November 27, 2018

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Posted: November 27, 2018

Posted: November 27, 2018

SMHS is outstanding! The students are kind to each other and the teachers bend over backward to help students prepare for the future. SMHS has a multitude of clubs and sports for students. And the Technology & Engineering program is the best program to introduce students to high paying, high demand jobs. No other school in the district offers this class. The school offers amazing auto shop classes and the welding and agriculture classes offer kids hands-on lessons to real-world problems. The college acceptance rate in 2018 was the highest of any other school in the district. It's no wonder that so many students are trying to do transfers from their school to SMHS!

Posted: January 27, 2016

Posted: January 27, 2016

To my honest opinion this school offered me the resources to continue on to a higher education. Having recently graduated and now attending a four year university .High school is what you make of it and the effort you put into it.They offer more help and teachers willing to guide you towards a higher education, you have to be willing to go find those resources. Nice teachers, humble students.

Posted: October 25, 2014

Where should I start? Santa Maria High School's leadership is joke. There is hardly one thing about this school that I like. The students, somewhat friendly and the entire three years I've been attending, only one teacher has been friendly and even then he was a bit judgmental. The staff here are a bit of a hypocrite and contradict themselves quite a lot. The support here is ridiculous and the only support you'll ever get from this school is just the staff telling you to "attend tutoring", whereas the tutoring here is quite awful. You have one teacher attending and helping a big number of students in the MMLC, and even then all this teacher does is simply walk around. The recent schedule change is simply outrageous and stressful. You have 6 classes and hours of homework each day. The weight of our backpacks is simply horrifying. As mentioned before we have 6 classes and a textbook for each of the classes, depending the schedule we have, then we have supplies for the classes etc this all reaches up 75 - 90 lbs of things being carried everyday. There is so much more to this school that's bad, but little characters remaining for me. All in all, I do not recommend to anyone.

Posted: September 29, 2013

I recently graduated from the school and I have to say Santa Maria High School is great. The teachers are awesome and really care about students education. Before going to SMHS i was told by many people (that never attended the school) that it was full of gangs and pregnant girls.....This just isn't true. Yes there are some students that appear to be in gang's but almost every public school has that. There are rarely fights at the school, in the 4 years i attended SMHS i only remember there being like 3 fights and none were gang related. Now about the pregnant thing SMHS has the most because there is a program that helps teen moms across the street so when a school has a girl that gets pregnant they send them over to SMHS. The school is great, if I had children I would have no problem sending them to school there.

Posted: August 6, 2013

My school has a very safe friendly environment. I always go with a smile on my face knowing its going to be a great day. The staff and teachers are great! I just love everything about this school.