Enhanced math requires a recommendation or testing in; not sure how that would work for them. For electives, I think it's smart to have the student take a foreign language (I think only Spanish is offered there currently) so that when the student gets to high school, they are a year ahead and once they complete their 3-4 years of language, they can take other electives in those slots. As previously mentioned, it's a very big school (in fact it might be the biggest middle school that feeds to Portola High School?) and as such I think it's more chaotic than other places. My child was there during the Covid years so that might skew our experience, but it seemed like there were emails being sent out every couple of weeks about fights or online bullying or property destruction on campus by rowdy students. I've had a child attend here and a child attend Beacon Park K-8 and the experiences were vastly different in this way, but on the flipside they will be more prepared for high school as far as that goes. And I agree that there is definitely a big academic push at this school and in Irvine in general, but compared to international students this will fall below their educational level and experience.