Avondale College

The staff, deans and teachers here at Avondale have shown nothing but the utmost respect, incredible support and genuine care towards the transition for my child. Every subject was spoken about, every option like counseling were offered. She's thriving. Enjoying her subjects. Loves her teachers especially her science teacher who implements Tai Chi to relax. The nurses are incredible also. Thank you for doing a great job AC.

Our teen has gone through serious health issues for several years so it has affected her schooling. We've been to Health School and other colleges but the support and understanding was pretty much vacant (except N.H. School) so she naturally got behind in some subjects. Moved to Avondale and if anything it was a blessing. Have been overwhelmed by the immense support, aroha and care each and every staff member have at AC. The transition for us was easy, they understood our situation and have supported our child the entire way. They've supported our child with extra curriculum, worked around a schedule to suit our child's needs and her external support...they exceeded my expectations of what and how a public school operates. I was blown away by it all. They have on-site nurses, a great art and drama faculty, medical support for the sports department, they're involved with all cultural activities. It's because of the staff here and their philosophy that my daughter 'wants' to go to school, where as before she was too ashamed to be seen...and that is if not the most important thing for your child.

the toilets are always dirty, the students are always loud and vape,even in class time and some teachers don't care. They are also racist and rude.

Personally from my experience, You success is based on pure luck and weather you get good teachers. My grades from yr 9-11 were so bad due to the teachers not knowing, their subject, fluent english, and proper teaching methods. The classes i succeded in where with teachers who could actually do their jobs properly. Aswell as teachers being less strict and by the end of the year just giving kids free credits. Teachers are not strict when it comes to exams/test. The principle barely present and somewhat racist tbh. The teachers do not care about your wellbeing only results. Their is so much drama between teachers its so unprofessional and teachers will shittalk one another even to students. The cafeteria is so trash, multiple request to change the pricing and it just keeps increasing, The wait time in line is so long and is a "first come first serve" and food left over is given to the teachers. Sushi is like $10 and drinks are more expensive that kids rather skip time in class to walk to the dairy across the road which is way cheaper. kids are so rude, theirs no respect for one another or basic human decency.. and people are always looking for a reason to fight. Fights happen multiple times and the teachers mostly just send the kid to med and sweep it under the rug, no serious consequences for bullying or fights of anysorts, they are more annoyed at the fact they do it in school uniform. overall awful place, there are so many other schools to benefit from. You will only exceed in this school if you know how to teach yourself, and are academically gifted.

BEST SCHOOL EVERRRRR all the teachers are so nice except the school realy only cares about their appearance which doesnt really mean anything bc their appearance is SHIT. and also a lot of fights happen. BUT ITS SO GOOODDD I MISS IT SO MUCH BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE.

There are some students of this school that like to engage in intimidating other students from Avondale Intermediate just around the corner. Yesterday my grand daughter whilst waiting at the crossing on Victor St, was verbally abused by a female student, my grand daughter does not this girl, nor did she choose to engage with this older student. Avondale College should have teachers placed at the crossings to supervise what their students are doing. Mt grand daughter should be safe when walking home from school, Avondale College needs to step up and deal with their students and bullying. Want be sending my grand daughter to this school. Would not recommend this college to anyone.

I attended Avondale high school for a few years. My experience was ide say average. The people are really friendly but I always felt I had be carefull about who's company ide choose to hang out with. Since there are alot of kids at the school who were less fortunate and came from families who couldn't afford the bare minimum. It reflected in their behavior as well. I felt uncomfortable sometimes interacting with them. Most were decent it was just a few kids that made my time there difficult. Also people smoked weed, and ciagretts in the bathroom. But I know the staff could not do much about bc of the type of kids that come to the school. I know they tried their best. So it's ok Teachers were alright some were definitely better than the others. I disliked substitute teachers though bc I felt more effort could be put into getting sub teachers who auctally knew how to teach the subject they were substituting for. The tuck shop was hell. Waiting lines were insane. And food was really expensive. One day I got sushi and it was $10 like um yeah never again. Library was nice though. And they offer a large variety of extracurricular activities which is nice. The turf was nice usually people play football there. F: block was messed up people used that area to have sex and things like that. I feel somthing can be done about that. The school does not have the best reputation I feel it's average. But it's okay. Ide give it a 5 out of 10.