Willoughby Girls High School, Willoughby School Reviews

Willoughby Girls High School, Willoughby

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By Student - 21 Feb 2024, Rate: bad

Either be a bully or get bullied. The teachers don’t care unless it gets physical.

By Employee - 07 Dec 2023, Rate: excellent

ive seen students get bullied in front of me and had nothing to do about it just because of their reputation

By Student - 10 Nov 2023, Rate: excellent

teachers genuinely care about students they go above and beyond so grateful and proud i go here

By Student - 21 Oct 2023, Rate: bad

I was held hostage in this school and then was bullied by multiple mean girls. After I got bruises all over my body and they ruined my mascara and makeup. I started to bleed. I wish people weren't like this, unbelievable and disgusting.

By Alumnus - 07 Jan 2023, Rate: bad

When I attended 10 years ago the school was okay and the staff were kind and considerate, but everything I've heard from current students and parents since then has been horrible. All the good teachers have left and the ones who replaced them don't care a single bit about the students' wellbeing. Individuals' special needs are completely ignored and denied in favour of making the school "look good". If a student wears the uniform wrong they get yelled at by teachers, sometimes in front of everyone. The place is rife with bullying and nothing is done about it. My family knows a girl there who is miserable and constantly wants to end her own life, and all of her problems stem from the fact she attends WGHS. It may have been a great school over a decade ago, but not anymore. Times are changing and nobody there cares if your kid lives or dies. Don't send your kids here unless you want them to hate you.

By Student - 12 Dec 2022, Rate: bad

That school was an absolute hell hole. They only care about reputation and making themselves look good. Forced kids to take off their sports jacket, give them detention and freeze because they wore a sport jacket instead of the $200 winter coat.
Additionally, they’re not supportive at all. Instead of helping they convinced any students who weren’t performing as well to drop out. They told me to not go for the ATAR or HSC because of my grades. Didn’t help. Oh and the counsellor broke student confidentiality because she thought it unfair that I didn’t want to talk to a specific adult in my life whom was dangerous to me.
Every stall in every bathroom is filled with either slurs or students taking about very concerning topics on wellbeing. I won’t even begin to go on about how poorly they supported students when two students sadly passed away.
Graduated 2021 FYI

By Parent - 22 Feb 2020, Rate: bad

When l went to enrol my 15 yo daughter the school advised me they were gul and go elsewhere. As we had moved into area they had mo choice and she was enrolled. Worst decision l ever made. Three weeks later she was invited to birthday party, l dropped her off assuming it was family residence. Turned out 16yo had rented it for weekend and my daughter had been invited as the "entertainment". They spiked her drinks, drugged her and beat her up. Black eyes, bruises over body etc. And l was unable to contact her for 3 hours after pick up time. Police were involved, school principle unhelpful and only interested in school reputation and very upset when my daughter attended assembly 2 days later where families of all children were invited and sat in front row where invited dignitaries on stage could see her bruised face and black eye. Around 25 interviews were held with offending kids and their parents. I was treated like dirt by school. All the school cared about was image not the kids. My daughter has high IQ and achieved academically but it destroyed her confidence and trust. From reading reviews nothing has changed.

By Student - 11 Feb 2020, Rate: bad

I've been a student here, teachers were abusive (constantly lied, bullied the kids, let other kids bully anyone weak without a care in the world, they had some of the dumbest teachers I have ever met and not to mention utterly rude and vile).
Save yourself the pain and just dont bother with this sad excuse of a 'school'. I hope they get sued one day because the harrassment I endured was so bad. Please learn how to be more respectful towards students, touching, swearing and bullying students is just so disgusting.

By Parent - 08 Apr 2019, Rate: excellent

Every school has positives and negatives, however it's what works best for your child that counts and this school works for my daughter. We looked at private schools, but just could not go past WGHS. This school has a high academic standard, which works well if your child is that way inclined, it has many clubs you can be part of and many sporting teams you can join. However if you want a modern looking school, then WGHS falls short. It has a old fashioned public high school uniform for the senior students that is from the 70's, that needs to be changed. They have to many different form of communication from Facebook, moodle, sentral and they still send home notes which gets confusing if you are trying to find information. Most of the staff are excellent but a few let the team down. It's a large school in terms of student numbers, however it's sandwiched into a small campus. The real question, is my daughter happy here and the answer is yes, she has a good group of friends that are honest and trust worthy. All the students come from middle to high income families so have similar interest and values. She is performing well above the national average and enjoys going to school each day. Would she perform well at a private school, yes but it's hard to justify 1/4 million dollars to get the same results.

By Student - 09 Oct 2018, Rate: average

In year 10, the school gradually puts lots of assessments on students. As a year 7 at this school, it was very pressuring and mentally destabilising. Many others were procrastinating on a regular basis. I have learnt time management from this but I would like the work load to cut down especially in mid term.

By Parent - 17 Jun 2018, Rate: excellent

i decided to send my daughter who is in year 7 to willoughby girls high school as we simply could not afford for her to go to monte where my eldest daughter in year 10 used to go but now in barker college. I was quite upset with myself as i had gotten fired and am at a lower paying job, ii cried because i thought Lottie would not get a as high education but litttle did i know i needed to stop thinking like that. Willoughby girls is a very high achieving school and her academic levels have gone up the roof in the past two terms recently just receiving her semester 1 report. We currently can only afford for my eldest in year 10 to go to barker but i am even thinking of transitioning her to willoughby what a great school and am a proud mother!

By Student - 22 May 2018, Rate: poor

i am in year 8 and have ocd, anxiety, depression, adhd, bipolar disorder and no friends. the school does nothing to accommodate this. they have so much anti-bullying propaganda with is unnecessary or works really well because i have never experienced or seen anyone get bullied the teachers have no thought of any class other than theirs and are shocked at how heavy our bags are. when we tell them we have homework from other classes they are shocked and then assign us a 4-page essay that's due the next day.

By Parent - 30 May 2017, Rate: poor

i removed my two daughters from ravenswood school for girls as we were starting to struggle financially and i couldn't afford it as i had quit my miserable job that i was working so many hours for. i am a single parent as well as the father has passed. so therefore i moved my girls one in yr seven this year and one in year ten this year to willoughby. i think this school is actually the most tryhard school ever with ana expensive as hell uniform and insane amounts of homework and assignments that dont even benefit the students yet just make them stressed out. i am thinking about once again moving my girls to a co ed public school such as killara high or even chastwood because this is a disgrace to be honest

By Student - 21 Oct 2016, Rate: excellent

I'm in year 12 now and I must say everyone works hard even in their free periods.No wonder we have great HSC results.

By Parent - 31 Jul 2016, Rate: poor

The school tries to present itself as a private school with an expensive uniform and ridiculously expensive excursions like at $1000 ski trip in year 8 for 1 days skiing. The seniors get around in really short mini skirts and look like a bunch of tarts with bra's visible through gaping shirts, yet the school is very pedantic about ankles being covered correctly with proper ankle socks and not sports socks, which beggars belief. As a school it's nothing special though it pretends to be and it has a stupid cheesy school song which I forbid my children to sing. They give you a fee list at the beginning of each year which includes "building fund" and "P&C" fund which is several hundred dollars each, is not obligatory though they don't tell you that, so if you go there just don't pay it they can't do anything they are just trying to siphon funds from you because they think if you live in the ridiculously over priced catchment area you must be flush with cash so they've go their hand out for their share of your hard earned dollars. Not all the rooms have air conditioning or heating so who knows what they do with the money. They take ages to issue lockers which you have to pay for and the children's school bags are really heavy even causing back ache. The bus services to the school are infrequent and not very good either.

By Parent - 05 Mar 2014, Rate: excellent

My daughter is in Yr11,Willoughby Girls High School and my son is in Year 7 Chatswood High School.The sister and brother both in chatswood public school with childhood,schools are outstanding in Sydney,much better than Nanjing