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Glendowie College

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2.6

Based on 13 reviews and 109 answers

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Average of 12 reviews with area ratings

  • Communication2.9
  • Outdoor environment2.6
  • Activities2.4
  • Food2.3
  • Staff2.2
  • Safety2.2
  • Indoor environment2.0
  • Education1.8
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  • Parent
    1.0
    10 August 2026

    Do not recommend

    Most teachers (not all) seem to be on an ego trip with teaching not even being a top priority. Some teachers barley speak clear english. Bullying is also at its worst and when a teacher tries to fix it, its either not worth their time or the bully gets a finger wag rather than a detention or any serious punishment. Only thing teachers care about is attendance so the government doesn’t get them in trouble and they have a nice number to advertise. Honestly a horrible high school and if you live in...

  • Other
    1.0
    20 May 2026

    Poor Student Ethics

    I will never understand why so many Glendowie College students refuse to pay for public transportation. Students from various other schools happily paying their fares, yet GDC students seem to frequently be pleading that they have lost their bus cards. I can see why anyone in the area who has hopes for their kid’s future invests in private schooling.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    9 January 2026

    run the OTHER way

    great school! if you love the smell of vapes in the toilets while you just want to pee! last year someone stole all the toilet lids and it was absolutly amazing! the teachers dont gaf. Esp Rebecca Johnstone she is evil

  • Student
    4.0
    24 August 2025

    Great school! PLEASE READ!!

    I am a year 9 and Glendowie College and I have never felt so happy. All of the prefects are so kind and nurturing to all the year 9s and we all developed connections to all these older kids in year 13 that we can look up to. When I joined for the whole of term 1 every Thursday before assembly our prefects (peer support) would come to our form and teach us a lesson, hangout with us and answer any of our questions. Personally I have not have any bad teachers at all. All of them have been really great and I feel like we have a pretty great education here! Only downside is sometimes the vaping in the bathroom but to be fair that happens at any high school you go to. Overall its a great school!

  • Student
    4.0
    5 March 2024

    Good school

    Apart from the occasional racist or annoying teacher, Glendowie is a pretty good teacher. I like it a lot and since coming here I have made a bunch of new friends and I know that I won't have a single lonely day. Everyone (including the teachers) here is a bit weird but that means you get to be weird too.

  • Parent
    1.0
    30 July 2023

    Pedo Principal

    Really bad school, the teachers don't care about your children and my kids come home telling me about how the principal tried to "lay hands on them". This is unacceptable

  • Student
    1.0
    22 March 2023

    Ms BILKY IS AN OPP

    MS bilky is an opp, she got staring problem ong ong

  • Other
    1.0
    9 June 2022

    Glendowny

    There is only one word I can use to describe this place: Hamilton! What a bleak, dreary, miserable place.

  • Other
    1.0
    9 June 2022

    RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN

    There is only one word I can use to describe this place. HELL. Never have I experienced a location to have such an overbearing, joy-sapping effect on me. Wouldn't wish a day in this place on my worst enemy.

  • Student
    2.0
    9 May 2021

    Glendowie review

    Math teacher I had was absolutely horrible and didn’t teach me anything as was too busy with other job, just gave us sheets which were as easy as the work I got in year 1. The bathrooms are packed and a lovely smell of different flavours every day. School is pretty bad and needs a whole upgrade which they’ve just done to science block. Everything is old and broken now. They more care about your uniform than being away for a month and banned phones which makes students have to go to the bathrooms to check there phone and then the teachers come in and accuse them of vaping and make the student nervous and anxious to ever go in to the bathroom to do something the human body does.

  • Student
    3.0
    7 April 2021

    Overall review of gdc

    Glendowie is a pretty good school, however the teaching isn’t all great, some of the science teachers I’ve had haven’t been very good and haven’t learnt as much. Some math teachers haven’t taught me anything at all.

  • Student
    2.0
    23 February 2021

    Shit teachers

    Honestly its the certificate and everything racist teachers one nearly broke my charger when I was in year 10 students caps in bathrooms 24/7 think they are so cool unsafe experience during morning tea and lunch only choice is to go during class which is not allowed

  • Student
    1.0
    22 September 2020

    Teachers

    Bad teachers, staff care more about being late to school rather than taking a day off, cell phone rule has a negative impact on students