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Primary schoolLower Hutt
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2.6

Based on 11 reviews and 91 answers

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  • Former Student
    1.0
    13 November 2025

    Wilford is BAD

    BULLIES And SOME teachers are always shouting and old principal was a pervert. some teachers and office workers were great like Donna and Linda . as well as Ailsa and Whaea Ropene, But most of them are gone now. They shout at kids and apparently locked an autistic kid in a cage because he was biting people. The new principal doesn't listen to the children and spends money on things they don't need. put your kid there is you want. but there is a chance of a BAD time.

  • Student
    1.0
    20 October 2025

    do not go to this school

    very bad one time a teacher told me to eat a rotten fish it was filled with maggots just for talking and they always bullied the black students and they called them the n word countless times a day everyday

  • Student
    1.0
    20 October 2025

    if you put your child into this school you have a problem

    this school is horrible. Mold is in every class the last principal was a pervert/predator (he looked down a girls bra.) and he called a black kid the n word hard r. they lock autistic kids in cages. you get bullied all the time. the teachers do nothing to help, you learn nothing, if it's too windy you can't even go outside, IT'S WELLINGTON. this school traumatized me and they were racist and whipped me on a daily basis. stay away from Bevan he will make you lose your lunch for talking. they got...

  • Student
    5.0
    23 May 2025

    this is good

    I know Wilford had some bullies as I'm a former student am one its very good

  • Parent
    1.0
    23 May 2025

    the principal

    this school is bad the old principal was a s** addict and the new one doesn't if listen to my kids

  • Former Student
    1.0
    30 January 2025

    this place ruined my childhood and mental health

    asbestos. teachers that bullied me since i was five. classmates were uncontrollable and horrific to everyone. black mold. no funding. so many anti-vax teachers. also racist teachers. principle was a bit of a pedo who slept with parents and made the mums uncomfortable . went for eight long, long, years, woke up everyday in dread and a cold sweat counted the minutes down on the clock till 3. also mice. and rats. My friends and i were bullied EVERY SINGLE DAY and school refused to do anything about, there were a FEW, like a couple, good teachers, but the rest bullied me for their power trips and insecure self-worth. this school gave me: suicidal thoughts, multiple eating disorders, depression, anxiety, social anxiety, body dysmorphia, obsessive harmful tendencies, panic attacks, cold sweats, a constant freezing up when reminded of there, authority figure issues (to this day I'm still terrified and occasionally hostile of teachers and ANY form of authority) and SO MANY COCKROACHES.

  • Student
    1.0
    12 August 2024

    Wilford

    I went to this school and would never recommend it. I didn't learn anything. I was bullied. I got jump and the teachers did nothing. I can't say much about the new principal but the old one looked down my friends bra. Also there was a petition to take him down. All down a terrible experience. They always had to fund stuff. There after-school care was terrible. I could write a whole eassy on what it was like going to the school. But I'm sure you don't want to here that.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    12 April 2024

    Do not let your children go here

    Teachers are bullies!!! There deputy principal is guilty of causing physical harm to multiple students. Including torturing a child who had a broken bone. I think this school should be shut down and all of the teachers investigated. The amount of stories and emotional scars they left on children in their care. No justice ever happened and these people are still allowed near children… get police involved!

  • Parent
    1.0
    13 November 2023

    Parent

    School is not good one my daughters were bullied daily. My other daughter gets called names, ugly stupid students breaking her stuff. When approaching teachers every single time they say it was a miss understanding and it was a game and they didn't mean to. Which is all lies they suger coat everything the principle had affairs with some of the parents and my eldest daughter said he was creepy and that he would look at the older girls which made them uncomfortable. Students are not held accountable for thier behavior.

  • Parent
    2.0
    20 February 2023

    not good

    some teachers are nice but the principal is creepy and they lock autistic kids in cages

  • Former Student
    1.0
    3 September 2020

    Wilford

    This school is horrible, I was bullied every single year there and Zi didn't learn very much one star