Bethlehem College

Excellent School. The teachers go above and beyond to encourage and allow students learn and grow as individuals. I really appreciated having the ability to explore and ask questions about Christianity while at BC. My kids love school which can't be said for all children! Highly recommend.

As a semi private religious school it has its benefits and downsides as do all.

The school it horrible. The don't care about the students.

Not good. Very slow to enact any change, forces its beliefs down everyone's throats, and as if that weren't bad enough the bullying is insane. They will not do jackshit about bullies and will specifically request for students not to tell their families about it, while continuing to do nothing. If you want a sexist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, bible-thumping science-denying school then this is the place for you. There was a teacher who was caught red-handed refusing to teach the curriculum because he didn't believe the earth was more than 6,000 years old, and believed that dinosaura lived with humans and in fact still lived to this day in Africa, and he got to keep his job. I, a student, had a debate with him and got him to proudly admit none of his sources were peer-reviewed. If you value education, look elsewhere.

after i come to this school i start to get depression and anxiety and the school just what to get as mash kid as they what nonmatter how bad the kid is they just what more money they don't care who the bullying is they just what the money they what to do that after one year i started geingt sad and depression and i start to say why my mum sand me to this fucking school because of the bully and the mean kid i am a dumb person that always get not achieved of every test and people say why you always get not achieved and they started bully me that why i started to get depression and THIS SCHOOL RUINED MY LIFE FOR A LONG TIME, and i started to cry allots but i don't told my mum to worry about so i not told her.

The teachers put smiles on our faces even if your in a bad mood. Everyone is helpful,
I don’t know any bullying issues at this school. You get such a lovely welcome and it includes Christian values. There are so any outstanding opportunities at this school (e.g sports camp, BOT role, head boy, head girl and many others. The head teacher is so kind, so are the teachers. I have learnt so much from this school. Everyone is included and encouraged.

Very good school, the teachers are so nice and helpful. Highly recommend it!

this school is the worst they do nothing and if you send your kids here they will get bullied and abused and they do nothing

As a student at this school, I will have to say it's not the best school. The school really does like the look of the school but not the individuality and well being of the school.
First of all, the school is sexist. For mufti days, the girls have an entire page of rules for mufti day and what we're not allowed to wear; no tight leggings, no spaghetti strap tops, no off shoulder tops etc. Meanwhile the boys have one rule, no crossdressing. They also have rules for hair colours (only natural colours), earrings (only one earring allowed and must be a normal stud), no other jewellery, no coloured nails (even natural).
Second of all, racism is sadly an existing thing at BC. Due to my Maori culture, teachers always choose me for reading any Maori passage. Also the teachers are stereotypical about the Maori and Pasifika culture.
Third of all, teachers do pick on students for not reason at all. My art design teacher in 2021 would move me all the time if i spoke one sentence while everyone else would be having fat chats.
Fourth reason, there has been sexual harassment at this school by teachers. I have been sexually harassed by one teacher but personally not by anyone else.
Fifth reason, the teachers do not care if you have other stressful assignments and put more work on you and act like they would see your work if you didn't do it just to stress you out.
Lastly, the homophobia at this school is ridiculous and disgusting. I heard a rumour that if you're apart of the LGBTQ community and the school found out, they would contact the parents and put you in counselling and try to turn you back straight. Disgusting!

BC is a christian school! reading some of the other responses to this are silly, why go to a christian school if you don't want to at least be respectful during any christian parts of the education at BC.
Secondly, yes bullying is a problem, but that is not so much to do with the school itself (although it could help out more in certain situations) its is mainly based on the students who could be attending any school, bullying kids anywhere at any school but just happen to be at BC.
Yes, BC is expensive, but it is also a semi private schools it is not fully government funded, and therefor must cost a little more than your average school. However that doesn't mean that rich kids are automatically going to do good and get the highest grades, grades are not based on wealth, only the pure intelligence of a student.
Now I cannot deny that I have had my fair share of creeps as teachers at BC, but i'm sure that is bound to happen anywhere (and if you were truly taken advantage of, molested, or touched inappropriately in any way, I am very sorry that this happened to you, and this is not something BC stands for and definitely something they should be taking as a more serious issue, instead of just moving teachers around.)
Overall, BC is full of mostly amazing students who are there to be friendly and help everyone to be their best, as well as teachers that surround you trying to help you thrive in this environment. The teachers don't care and most don't show favouritism towards the more academic students, they're all just there to see you succeed in whatever you choose to do.
BC has been such an important part of my learning and growing into the young person I am today. It has helped me learn, fully supporting me, and help my journey with faith and God grow continuously. I wish that anyone coming to this school after me will have an experience as good as, or even better than mine, and I truly pray for anyone who may not have had the same experience as me <3

good school but too homophobic

As much as I enjoyed this school in years 7-11, I soon realised it was not as good as it seemed. The complete lack of sex-education left me totally unprepared for the REAL world. The school’s naive assumption that pre-marital inter course isn’t rife among their students mean they are greatly increasing the chances of their students contracting an STI or having a teen pregnancy, and for a school that is so adamantly pro-life, it seems rather ironic. BC is stuck at least a few decades in the past, and unfortunately, they seem unwilling to change. My favourite example of this is in our last week as year 13s, we were called in for a year group assembly for what we soon realised was about rape. In this assembly, one of the senior councillors (who is female) proceeded to tell us that girls should “dress right for the night” at University, then adding that “boys can’t help themselves”. If victim blaming is BC’s response to sexual assault and rape, that pretty much sums up the time-warp that this school seems to be trapped in.

The other reviews on here are ridiculous. Nobody pays for grades, nobody is molested.
The only true thing is bullying. It can be an issue, as with every other school.
The Christian aspect of the school is what I struggled with the most. They do somewhat force the Christian practices onto you (being forced to pray, religious education is mandatory etc).
The teachers are some of the best you will ever meet. They are caring and accomodating to everybody, low grades or high grades, they are constantly going to try help you.
Some kids are a bit snobby due to their wealth, but not overwhelmingly so.
Overall, a good school.

Some people like it others hate it with passion. But I think it's a pretty avergely good school. I enjoyed my time there. It has its faults, but overall mostly good school.

It is an ok school most of the time.

this horrible school ruined my life forever, the teachers treat me with so much disrespect and say im going no where in life. they have also touched me inappropriately on my gentals, lester whenuaroa has traumatised many children by grabbing and flirting with young children. do not go to this horrible school please, and dont get sucked into their shit

Good, fun , great learning experience and camps . But expensive .

Its a good school with good atmosphere.

I have had an amazing experience at Bethlehem Collage. I have had so many opportunities that I would never had though if before. For example we competed in a global competition in Hawaii. We traveled to the South Island to play Jazz in the Jazz festival. We study things that are really relevant while still having fun. The students are good once you get to know them. The teachers are amazing. They’re all really friendly but you’ll find a few of them are really friendly and are really funny and a joy to be around even after school has finished. We have an amazing Performance Arts Centre where we do school productions once every two years. It’s just an all round great place to be. I’d happily do another year there

Teachers are only concerned with the higher grade students and frown upon the 1st 15. Accuse students of things with no proof they have not done. Will not let students take some academic classes because some students are taking classes that require less academics and are more practical because the academic deans find that they shouldn’t be taking a academic class when some students are taking less academic classes when the students are trying to keep their options open. Teachers do not respect students if they are not top grading students and do not offer the time to the non top grading students. Students get bullied by the teachers verbally if the teacher does and does not agree with what students have said. Bethlehem college teachers are the let down of the school. The teachers contradict the foundation and meaning of the school bethlehem college. So much more to list but the message has been put across that the teachers of Bethlehem College, especially in secondary school area and more importantly the secondary school deans and the leadership team of the secondary school absolutely lets down the school. I do not recommend this school purely that the teachers have corrupted the education system. For an example only the higher grading students can attend the more academic classes so that the pass rate is higher in the academic areas. Again I do not recommend this school.