Cleveland High School

The teachers are wonderful for the most part. Don't get me wrong. However, many tend to overlook the rest of the staff. The counsolers, for instance, are extremely poor. They lack in being both emotionally supportive as well as academically. Not to mention you can never get in to see them even if its for something incrediably urgent. If your child ever wants to go that extra mile and take the dual enrollment courses the school offers through both UNM and CNM, make sure you're not sensitive to stress. When signing up for these courses students must go through a rigorous period of dealing with the staff's incompetence. To those who do not know, to first start signing up for dual enrollment courses, you have to recieve "book forms" from the school, so they can get the necessary information they need to pay for your college textbooks. However, these forms aren't in any "easy access" place, so you must go through your counsoler. Don't expect to get this simple little slip of paper within a day or so. Most get it on the day of the deadline to sign up for dual enrollment through any of those colleges mentioned. Several signatures later, your child is finally enrolled, but the stress and disappointment doesn't end there. Most of the time the school WILL NOT give you a highschool credit for that dual enrollment course, and the only way to prove that you have been slaving yourself away for the past semester is by paying 10 dollars for a transcript because the administration failed to do their job. To add insult to injury, if you have told the counsoler you have taken that course they will, infact, not believe you and completely disregard everything you try to tell them despite having the evidence to prove it. This isn't the only case either. If your child has been unjustifiably written up by a teacher, don't expect a fair trial. The administration will again disregard everthing your child may say to clear their name. Justice and fair treatment is not this school's concern. They are the most conceited school in this district. They obsess over image. A lot of reports from this school may be extremely positive but that's just a deception. They may have high graduation percentages, but that's only because if it looks like your child will not graduate on time, the school will send them off to a much lower ranking school (Indenpendence Highschool to be exact). V. Sue Cleveland Highschool may have a pretty exterior but its interior is all vanity. The type of disrespect this staff awards students is repulsive.

best school in NM hands down.

If you are an athlete, a football player, you pretty much run the school. If you are in stugo(student government) you also run the school. But if are in any art/preformed art you are at the bottom, I am a member and officer of the school Thespian troupe and lets just say it's difficult. If you are going to be any form of art/performing art major and you have the choice go to Rio Rancho High School, there arts program is much better!!!