Wakatipu High School

All jokes aside this is a good school. I had a good experience with the content learned and although it was not intresting or relevant some of the time I picked up a lot. Teachers can be good or bad, just make a good impression and they'll like you. Some clearly haven't came from a high school level teaching background though but I think they are receiving additional training. Spacious indoors, quite open planned. Big feild space, and a wide range of activities/extracurriculars to choose from. Canteens always buzzing and I've had a good experience with it so far but it doesn't take cash or allow phone payments

I got expelled once for smoking with 2-3 other girls im not crazy rich but the other girls were rich so i got expelled and the rich girls got random bag searches and were allowed to stay in school then by law they had to take me back to wakatipu high school because im under 16 but they put me in a thing called offsite about a 5 minute walk away from the highschool at youth trust i did not learn anything the whole time i was in offsite i became depressed and used alcohol to help with the depression so i showed up a bit drunk at school but just grabbed something and left and yeah i got expelled for that too wakatipu high school and Oded Nathan have given me no hope or a chance for a good future

Wakatipu is a primarily white school that can be very racist at times, if a white student and one of ethnicities got into a fight they would take the white students side and put the ethnic student down. They do try to help students but there is so much pressure to be great. There is many opportunities but generally a bad school.

Good school, they push a lot for excellence in academics, sometimes to the point that it’s destructive for students. We also need far more education about feminism and gender equality, and not just in history class, young men need to be taught about it.

Great school definitely recommend to anyone into the outdoors or even just acedemic they provide a wide range of activités for all people a a high level

Only school in its populated area so the halls are astonishingly busy and crowded. The open plan layout isn’t ideal for work and consistently gets annoying with the ruckus that tends to happen from other classes or students walking the hallways. Lots of teachers are great for sure, lots of them do care for the students. The school as a whole, however, only think about the image and statistics of the school. Lots of vaping and such issues, but in all honesty the school can’t do a lot about that when student won’t listen or attempt to quit. The bullying on the other hand is something the school attempts and fails at fixing, But I will mention students can be pricks who will care less about any attempt to stop what they’re doing. Student stress is taken lightly and tends to be whittled down to ‘poor planning’. Overall this school does offer some good opportunities but really lacks the student engagement and focuses on their academics, rather than them as people.

Food prices have gone up dramatically in the school's cafe, whilst the quantity and quality of it decreased. Not to mention the drug and vapes.

The cafeteria used to have good food at a reasonable price. Now the garlic bread and everything else is completely mid, they don't even have waffles anymore. All the prices have gone up while the food has shrunk in both quality and quantity. Oh and there's a massive vape/alcohol culture which is never really addressed. The academics are pretty good though All in all 10/10 wouldn't do again.

Some people will hate on WHS but honestly it really helped me with my personal growth and I wouldn’t be who I am today without going there. The racism and homophobia should definitely be looked into more by the teachers and staff.

huge drug and vaping problem with the school that is never addressed, all they care about is their look and what the statistics say.

Could decent teachers principal would rather kids leave than make and changes that don't give them better statistics

Wakatipu High School is not the school that the school claims it to be. The school has a massive drug issue that is pushed under the rug far to often and will only deal with such issues if the public know. The school values how it is viewed over the wellbeing and success of the students. Some teachers are good however most are average. If u can, send ur child to a boarding school. The open plan learning is unideal to students learning. Really stock standard school, Don’t believe the hype that it gives its self.

Alright school, marginal culture. Inferior to many other schools.

This school provides its students with excellent opportunities; academic, sporting and cultural. However, it focuses primarily on how it is viewed. The leadership team value the physical appearance and image of the school over the students themselves. For example, they would rather push students into achieving UE rather than support them in their actual interests and wellbeing, for the pure interest of boasting about 'the high achieving school'.

Good school. Good academics. Some great teachers. However notable drugs and alcohol culture.