Schools in West Coast, New Zealand

“I’m a year 10 who used to go to Burnside, I now go to another school which I will not disclose due to privacy reasons.”

“I am a student at Ellesmere College-Te Kāreti o Waihora, and I find it fun with the haka comps and kapa haka and the whanu spirt days are all a blast.”

“OK for my nerds and weirdos, if you want a good experience at rolleston college. You just have to be smart but also social, dont be a weirdo with an ego, go…”

“This school is full of drug cartels and gangs. We have gang shootouts daily and my science teacher sucks and said me and my friends are bad at learning.”

“I attended Rangiora High School over 20 years ago and reading the reviews/comments, it's sad to see it hasn't changed much.”

“bullying is a huge issue here. i get harassed almost every single day, as well as many of my friends and none of the teachers have done anything about it.”

“Left this school last year. It was ok on the outside but then when you go there you see all this stuff that parents and other keen student wouldn't see until…”

“The buildings are rlly nice but they need more windows ! Its so dark at times, teachers are rlly nice but the sickbay and helping teachers are rude as shit ?”

“this whole school is an utter shite show, cannot believe the amount of teachers brushing off students and students mouthing off to teachers is disgraceful, the…”

“Nothing special really it has a lot of online bullying but as long as you surround your self with good friends the teachers are nice if you are nice to…”

“The school was okay, but the head of senior college seemed to have it out for everyone. She did not want to let anyone enjoy themselves, calling my friend a…”

“A very normal single sex school. Has just as many positives for lovers of tradition. Many negatives for others. Fantastic for rugby fanatics.”

“Was great when I first started and steadily went downhill. By the time I graduated I couldn’t wait to get out.”

“Teachers are great the school as a whole does well for its budget. downsides is the filthy bathrooms such as poo and urine smeared on the walls in the new…”

“I find that the school itself is really inclusive of all kinds of students and their different interests, the teachers seem to have their students best…”

“mostly good except one of my mates has to do counselling every week just because she sat alone in one class and it was only the second week of school so of…”

“It's been almost a year since I graduated from Hagley College and It was a wonderful experience.”

“I have been at Darfield since year 7 the Māori students are treated like trash and there is drugs everywhere.”

“I went to this school along time ago now however, I can say that hands down this was the worst 5 years of my life. Wouldn’t recommend you send your child here.”

“Throughout my schooling life here, I have been faced with many different challenges and the school doesn’t do anything to help.”

“This school is such an amazing school I went there last year and it was literally the best year of my life.”

“No school is perfect, but Geraldine is pretty solid and the teacher try very hard with minimal support from the principal.”

“I am in ex student from that school when I was at haeata this teacher bullied this kid that was handicap and she treated us bad she was a racist person”

“Spent all high school there, uniform is terrible and the rules can be very restricting so students can’t feel comfortable or express themselves.”