Wilderness School, Medindie School Profile, Ranking, Reviews

Wilderness School, Medindie

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School Facts

School sector:

Non-government

School type:

Combined school

Gender:

Single Sex-Girl

Total student:

741 (boy:0, girl:741)

Total staff:

Student attendance:

96%

None-english student:

28%

ICSEA value:

1174, ranks No.13 More ICSEA Ranking...

ICSEA distribution:

Bottom quarter	Middle quarters		Top quarter
2%	10%	19%	70%

High school rank:

No.7 (2013), No.1 (2011)

Website:

http://www.wilderness.com.au

Location:

Medindie

Address:

30 Hawkers Rd, Medindie SA 5081

Nearby:

House Price House Rent Public Transport

Phone:

08 8344 6688

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School Comment

Since its establishment in 1884, Wilderness School has been at the forefront of girls’ education. A non-denominational school for girls from Early Learning to Year 12 and boarding for students from Year 7 – 12, Wilderness School understands the needs o... more

Student Assessment

	Reading	Writing	Spelling	Grammar	Numeracy	Rank
Year 3	455	463	461	471	425	13
Year 5	555	554	544	581	553	2
Year 7	591	617	587	618	612	1
Year 9	625	648	629	633	635	6

Student assessment is based on he National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy(NAPLAN) results in 2011.

Reviews

By Student - 22 Mar 2023, Rate: bad

Teachers are insane, they won't listen to you if you have something to say. Things are never carried out. (e.g. there was a week of assignments, important ones, that were due all at the same time, and the head of middle school said told the teachers to fix it, none of them did.) And the school and it's staff play favorites ALL THE TIME. If you are rich and give the school money, you'll win prizes, get more opportunities, etc. The infrastructure is something that the school brags about, but it's not that great. Toilets are disgusting, and the most annoying thing? Any remotely cool thing is reserved for Year 12s, and while I get that it's their last year at the school, it's unfair to the rest of the students. Leading on to what I said about things never being carried out (and about the problems at the school never being solved). Teachers and staff often complain to the students about the things they are doing, and I understand that this is an issue, but at the same time, staff don't implement anything to fix it, and just expect students to do it. This sounds reasonable, but trust me, students need a little something, whether a reason, a consequence, anything, can't just expect things to happen when you vent about it. And the education system is slow. What people are taught is Year 7 here is taught at other schools in Year two. The school also expects students to be smart - and not just any level of smart - I'm talking about the I-know-exactly-what-the-teacher-is-talking-about-before-they-say it level of smart (real situation, not over-emphasizing this). Because of this, the school doesn't really show anything toward students who aren't that naturally gifted and you are just treated like an outcast - by both teachers and the students. Bullying is never really addressed, the school doesn't like talking about problems, simply because they don't want to acknowledge they exist. (Pretty much the whole school in, a nutshell). And for the final problem I will address, the expectations. We have committees in our school. Music, library, etc. The committees have meetings that run during lunch and/or recess. Our school has the braid system. You get involved in house/committee/sports/are really good at academics, you get a braid (which is basically a ribbon stitched onto your blazer sleeve. if you get a certain amount of braids, you get a pocket, certain amount of pockets, a blue jumper, the highest of all awards) . When it comes to the braids, especially for committee braids, you are expected to turn up for every meeting, take on jobs, and contribute. This is fine. But lunch times and recess times are when (for middle and senior) Have to change for PE. It is required to change in and out of PE, but the committee meetings clash, and if you don't change for PE, you get a bad effort grade (and PE doesn't have a grade other than effort). Of course, committees are compulsory, but they are encouraged/forced on us, and these clash. It doesn't make sense to do it like this. Another issues with the braids: they don't have an accurate way to choose who gets braids, except for academics, but that's dodgy still. I have gotten straight As in school and I got 1 braid point each time. You are supposed to get a braid point if you get straight effort grades too (or that has happened to certain people, mostly those who give money to/play a big role in the school). I know of people who got all straight effort grades and still didn't get any points. The system is flawed like this. If they had an accurate way to checking these things, and making sure expectations are met, then I'm sure things would be better.
And I'm certainly not the only one who thinks this. If you've taken the time to read this, then I hope you've been enlightened :)

By Student - 12 Aug 2022, Rate: poor

the schools education is 3 years behind compared to other schools. in year seven you will be learning how to use scratch a coding program which is taught in year 2 at other schools.

By Parent - 12 Sep 2018, Rate: excellent

Amazing school!

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