Queen Margaret College
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- Former Student1.017 February 2026
Only send your daughter to QMC if you really hate her
I went to this school back in the mid 90s and it was an extremely traumatising time in my life. I never wanted to go to this school but my parents made me go. I just wanted to go to a normal state school but instead went to this hell hole they call QMC. I got severely bullied and management did NOTHING about it as they only care about fees. The school rules are outrageous and they squeeze every bit of originality out of their students so they just become carbon copies of each other - rich, bitch...
- Student1.05 January 2026
Got scammed. My parents paid 50k for me to be mentally ill.
Some teachers are great. Some are absolutely horrible. My main lesson from this school is that, some year groups are mostly nasty people and some are okay. I was fortunate to be in a good one. This school did make me better at schoolwork and IB-related stuff, but it ruined my mental health and made me addicted to self-harm. Also, some teachers have very clear favourtism and would treat you horribly, even if you are obviously mentally ill or not doing well. Very few teachers cared. Personal an...
- Student5.04 September 2025
Great!? ??
Such a GOOD school! And amazing diversity for a private school!
- Former Student5.027 August 2025
Great school!
Loved this school and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good school!
- Other5.021 August 2025
Really Good!?
This School is AMAZING!!! It had its rough patches(like all schools) BUT they are now good ?. They are super supportive of my daughter who is currently in year 8 and we were struggling at her old intermediate SWIS so we moved her here and her life has changed forever! (In a good way)!!!
- Student5.015 August 2025
i really ❤️ this School!!!
this school is amazing and is helping me so so much, the teachers are super NICE! and so are most of the girls there. i am finding it amazing. I have ADHD, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia and QMC are so supportive of me i HIGHLY Recommend them. and it really does break my heart reading all of these negative reviews?, because them for me is such an amazing School❤️
- Former Student5.015 August 2025
Amazing School!
QMC is amazing and it has helped me so much acidemicly!
- Other5.013 August 2025
so good
love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Other5.013 August 2025
I loved it!
i loved the school but i geuss it depends on the person?
- Other1.09 March 2025
queen margaret’s college idk
school is ok. good bullies a lot. not very good. way too expensive and braemar all the way.
- Other1.024 January 2025
My daughter attempted self harm after school
I’m not joking someone attempted to harm my daughter she came home with a scar on her thigh and crying saying “Lucia and other girls tried to h - h- urt me “ I was so scared I contacted the principal she just said “ oh no worry’s I will take care of them “ then hanged up DONT take ur kid here and my daughter also tried self harm she confessed to it it messes with ur mentle health come here if you want to be hurt physically and mentally at the same time waste of money
- Former Student1.023 July 2024
worst school in nz
Terrible school i went there for two and a half years, worst years of my life. I got picked on by the teachers because i wasn't as well off and posh like the other kids and wasn't as smart as them. I got accused of stealing and vaping and so many more. I did school counselling and in one of them i told them how i had a good day and they said okay do you think you're fine now and we can end these sessions, like what. Most the time we had relievers for every period who would just hand us work and...
- Other2.022 June 2023
to hard
They but you in a class depending on how smart you are and to me that is not fer for the girls and they try to hard on the web!
- Former Student1.021 October 2022
lets just be honest :(
I have been at the school for 2 years. I had many problems with the school in my first year and the school had promised solutions. This year my classmates have been treating me horribly, me and my parents have spoken to various deputy principals about it and little to nothing has been done by the school. I have been threatened, harassed and bullied. I am a good student, I don't do drugs and I work extremely hard. The girls in my class are very loud, I understand that they are not at school to learn but I definitely am at school to learn. There is a huge lack of respect for teachers and some girls feel it is okay to treat teachers like trash. It is extremely rude and nothing is done about it. The school spent so much money on the "no princesses here" campaign rather than trying to fix the classrooms. Teachers also used open days as excuses to not mark our work that had already been handed in a long time ago. I understand that not everyone is going to have this experience at QMC but please take note of my experience.
- Other5.01 September 2022
Best school in New Zealand.
Best school in New Zealand. The school has changed our daughters life.
- Former Student1.015 June 2022
Expensive
Extremely expensive and highly competitive school. Hated it
- Former Student5.015 May 2022
Amazing school
This school is amazing i love it so much and it breaks my heart to hear all of these awful reviews about it. I think it really depends on your experience. I have never seen any bullying between or teacher favouritism. I am a current student and hope to spend the rest of my years here and the school is like a safe family where you can be yourself. i dont think its fair to write reviews saying "students" because it is not everyones experience and if you really have a problem with it then you should email the school yourself. The only issue is there is a lot of vaping, but that is at every school and i wouldn't say its a problem because as long as you dont get involved with it then your fine
- Other1.07 April 2022
horrific.
I believe that QMC is a terrible school. the teachers bully their students and do not care about their mental health or mental stability. the teachers have serious social issues that they choose to take out on their students. the teachers only seem to care about the "popular" or "their favourite" student and neglect the others in the class. we give this school so much money and they can't even fix up a classroom that has a leaky roof, or a window with a very large crack running through it. inste...
- Student1.07 April 2022
this school can’t address real problems
a friend of mine is a student here and they came to me and a few of my friends upset because they had been accused of being a pedophile because of your lack of communication they have detention after school, let me explain a bit more. So my friend lets call them poppy they took a photo of their friend and it happened to have another student in it, now insted of this student going up to poppy they went to the principal and twisted the story to make it sound like poppy was taking photos of like under their skirt and stuff. Now your awful system makes poppy feel afraid to come to school. Completely not okay, fix your mistakses
- Other1.07 April 2022
Run, don't walk away
This school deserves ZERO star, I'll give a negative rating if I can. One of the worst schools in the country, agree with all the comments from the other reviewers who gave <3 stars. This school is all about not getting on the wrong side of the teachers rather than learning, the teachers have serious personal issues. The quality of the teaching staff is seriously questionable, teachers make inappropriate remarks and treat students based on popularity. They don't seem to think there are consequences mistreating children. Yelling and punishments happen on a daily basis depending on their mood and if you are liked. People survive in this school by picking on each other and trying everything they can to become a teacher's pet. People are really mean in this school. There are serious bullying issues, and vaping is a daily thing. Unlike their advertising, they have no clues what girls need, let alone 'Building inquisitive girls that step into the world prepared to make change'. The environment is toxic. I, very strongly, will not recommend sending your girls to this school, unless you wish them mentally broken. Run, don't walk away.
- Former Student1.03 April 2022
Lot of money
Very expensive school and in my opinion a total waste of money. Should have gone to a state school.
- Former Student5.015 December 2021
Loved QMC
Best school ever have never loved years more than my time there made friends for life and teachers go above and beyond to help you. Had a teacher come into holidays for a week to help me finish my chemistry and another email my friend who was struggling everyday w the assignment she had to do to be able to pass the year. Senior management questionable but the students and teachers 373939% make up for it HIGHLY RECOMMEND
- Former Student1.022 March 2021
Terrible school
I hated this school so much. I left in 2019 when we had lost 50+ teachers in one year. Teaching is awful (probably because they needed to find 40 teachers in the 2018 summer break). The school creates elitism. Handles bullying terribly. Worst years of my life were at this school
- Student2.022 November 2020
at least the students are friendly
This is from the view of a middle schooler. A few teachers are okay, but the rest of them don't really seem into teaching. For example, one teacher takes out their "random mood-swing caused anxiety" on students. One of the deans completely called off the issue when multiple students from multiple year groups complained about a teacher being racist. In about half of the subjects, you just sit there and don't learn anything. The streaming of math classes doesn't even work. They group people who learned topics at that level years ago with people who don't even know the basics of equations. If you didn't have to pay around minimum wage to attend QMC, it would be somewhat tolerable. Otherwise, it's not the greatest option.
- Student1.08 November 2020
not worth the money
it sucks don’t go there it’s not worth all the money
- Former Student1.028 August 2020
Don’t recommend
Teachers all turned to s**t after we lost 40 of them in one year. There is a huge sense of elitism in the school - and a huge popularity contest. The principal is bad. The school has gone down hill massively. They r mean.
- Former Student2.027 August 2020
Has gone downhill
The school is okay during the youngest years (primary and early middle school), but it has some questionable policies to deal with bullying, and much of the higher staff doesn’t seem to have students best interests at heart.