Lourdes Hill College, Hawthorne School Reviews

Lourdes Hill College, Hawthorne

School Reviews

By Employee - 15 May 2024, Rate: excellent

could we please get students to stop writing inappropriate and untrue things about this school I know you think this is funny but if this goes any further, we are all going to have a chat of what is appropriate to put online and how disrespectful this is to teachers please take down the comments and say sorry to Mr. Harty and Mr. Fisher and other teacher who you have mentioned. Thank you.

By Student - 15 May 2024, Rate: bad

heres an honest review u can't go to the bathrooms without signing Ur diary u can't drink water in class and the bathrooms the stuff in the sink will freak you out. Sporting programs meh and kids kiss on the library couch. Overall, not really recommend becoming a Lourdes girl but u do u. Also, they give you detentions a lot. Also, Mr. Fisher and Mr Harty are still here

By Student - 15 May 2024, Rate: excellent

tuckshop uses dead rats for there nuggets. tuck shop lady spits in the pasta. chips are left out to dry in the sun for a week. and dont get me started about the bathrooms. saw a girl having a toilet baby, another was making out with another girl. and they were selling weed. oh and they sell their bodies to the teachers to get better grades. i haven't done any of this i'm in grade 7!!! but the school is eh. i made friends with a bird though. mr fisher and mr genders keep winking at me and touching me when i ask for help. does anyone know why?

By Student - 22 Apr 2024, Rate: excellent

10/10 tuck-shop! :)
also the tuck-shop people are awesome!

By Parent - 17 Mar 2024, Rate: bad

sent my child here in year 7. Shes now in year 9 and identifies as a dog. She took space to be yourself too seriously.

By Student - 17 Mar 2024, Rate: bad

PURPLE SHIRTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TAKE THERE PURPLE BAGS HOME

By Student - 15 Feb 2024, Rate: bad

If the other students don’t bully you then the teachers will. If you have any pre-existing mental disorders or problems stay away from this school because it will make it 10x worse. There is no room for creativity or difference.

By Parent - 10 Oct 2023, Rate: bad

My child entered the Good Samaritan Center bathrooms during an assembly and I have not seen her since. Please I just want my little girl back.

By Alumnus - 10 Oct 2023, Rate: bad

I attended this school a couple of years ago and omg was it the worst. Mr Fisher and Mr Harty were total creeps, and I never felt comfortable around them. Also, the teachers are horrible, if you hate kids so much, why are you a teacher? The view was really nice though, but it smelt so bad. Half of the bathrooms there smelt like a mix of B.O. and a million different flavours of vapes, and they had the most disgusting substances known to man all over the bathroom walls. They said the groundmen were doing great work... clearly not considering the state of the school
Do not recommend being a Lourdanian, there was no space to be myself, and there was defenitely no space for any minority.
this school sucks, and the previous comments were right, Mr Fisher does like little boys.

By Employee - 10 Oct 2023, Rate: excellent

Hi chat! Mr Fisher here, I would like you to disregard any previous comments made about me. I only like little boys! Thank you for the heartfelt messages, I will play with myself thinking of them

By Student - 10 Oct 2023, Rate: excellent

help me please, i was eating my leftover sandwich in the lab when i got snatched by mr fisher, he has been tormenting me with the periodic table and will bark if i get a question wrong, but when i get a question right, he braids our gooch hairs together and calls me a good girl. 10/10 im a lourdes girl

By Parent - 10 Oct 2023, Rate: bad

i sent my daughter here 6 years ago and i haven't seen her since, girls investigated said that she was taken by mr fisher for eating in the labs. her name is Exa Dark Sideræl

By Parent - 22 Sep 2023, Rate: bad

I’m a parent of two Clarissa and Harissa who attend this school. My daughter Clarissa has harassed in B block bathrooms for loving a teacher at this school, this is absurd because love no matter the age difference. My youngest Harissa has not been the same since. At home she crawls on all fours and growls at me, I can’t get a moment’s peace. She wear cat ears and a tail and I just miss my little harissa. DON’T SEND YOUR KIDS TO THIS SCHOOL. It changes them for worse.

By Student - 24 Aug 2023, Rate: bad

I feel really uncomfy around mister hardy

By Parent - 17 Jul 2023, Rate: poor

i just want to be included. my child entered the j block bathrooms two months ago and we haven't seen her since.

By Student - 13 Jul 2023, Rate: bad

the mfs at this school are so rude. i’m gonna move. save yourself.

By Employee - 13 Jul 2023, Rate: bad

bad school

By Employee - 12 Jun 2023, Rate: bad

i haven't been paid in 13 years. where is my check, kay?

By Student - 06 May 2023, Rate: bad

In this school I got physically bullied and people are so mean and so cruel teachers are nasty the school looks really nice on the outside but it’s just awful on the inside everyone left in grade 7 because it was so bad DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE

By Student - 15 Mar 2023, Rate: excellent

has a very good tuckshop :)

By Student - 26 Feb 2023, Rate: bad

i’m back here again to remind everyone to not send there child to the school unless you want to the to commit suicide x

By Parent - 06 Feb 2023, Rate: excellent

Some of the teachers are bullies. They enjoy a power play and cause so much anxiety for these girls. Would not recommend this school

By Parent - 14 Nov 2022, Rate: bad

i sent my son to this school. he was never the same. at first, the symptoms were mild. he began to bark ands wear cat ears, and that's when i realised i was witnessing his descent into furryhood. i should have known sooner. i shouldn't have let this happen to him. my little baby jonny. he calls himself moonfist now. after i refused to buy him a litterbox he began to leave his feces on the floor. why have you done this to my son? i can't look him in the eyes anymore, knowing that my son is a furry. this school ruined my life.

By Student - 28 Oct 2022, Rate: bad

bro this school is bloody terrible. every teacher here has bad breath. too many lesbians come here. everyone stans taylor swiftt. teachers get mad at you for drinking water. i got suspended once for standing up out of my chair during class.

By Alumnus - 09 Sep 2022, Rate: bad

I have a close friend here and she has skipped days because her mental health from going to this school has been so bad that she can’t even go most days with reports of bullying vaping and not getting the support she needs

By Student - 31 Aug 2022, Rate: bad

my maths and science teacher constantly toots. not good.

By Student - 12 Aug 2022, Rate: bad

my english teacher in 2021 told me to shower, i was so ashamed i cried and went home early, if you arent bullied by aother student, the teachers will say something worse

By Student - 12 Aug 2022, Rate: bad

my english teacher in 2021 told me to shower, i was so ashamed i cried and went home early, if you arent bullied by aother student, the teachers will say something worse

By Student - 12 Aug 2022, Rate: excellent

i was locked in a windowless room called the relaxation room for 3 hours for playing tetis

By Student - 09 Aug 2022, Rate: bad

bad school

By Student - 15 Jul 2022, Rate: excellent

very very good, nice people

By Student - 11 Jun 2022, Rate: bad

This school is horrible. Students get bullied into dropping out the first year. Suicide attempts are alarmingly high and the school doesn't give a shit. It doesn't care for the health of the students, only how the school is represented in the media.
Pretty sure they've even broken the law when it comes to disciplining students. My worst experience was being locked in a windowless room (the relaxation room) without lights for four hours. They waited till fifteen minutes after lunch to let me get food so that I wasn't able to talk to anyone in the halls, I was followed there and back. They told my friends I'd gone home sick since I'd never shown up to homeroom.
What did I do to deserve this punishment? Played tetris in eighth grade history class.
Don't send your kids here, they'll only be treated well if they're good at sports or music or something that makes the school look good. Otherwise they don't really care how you're treated

By Student - 16 May 2022, Rate: excellent

I have no idea how people are saying such bad things about the collage, there are lovely staff and teachers who do everything they can so that you learn. and when it gets hard for them, you don't see them give up do you? so shut up brats and have fun, you only go to school once :)

By Student - 11 May 2022, Rate: bad

in 2021 i was told by a teacher that i needed to take a shower because my hair was slightly oily, i dont think ive been more embarrassed in my life. when i got home i cried to my mum about it and she reported it to the school ad of course the school didnt do anyhing

By Parent - 11 May 2022, Rate: excellent

they say "live laugh and learn" but when i left i was "living, laughing with painful tears in my eyes and leaving with depression"

By Student - 03 May 2022, Rate: bad

This school says that you can be yourself here "space to be yourself" nope that's not true infact you get judged on everything, how you look , what you like, who you hangout with, what you eat, whats sports you play, everything you get judged on no matter what. We basically have to be forced to learn about religion, whether you want to or not. BAD absolutly homophobic terrible school.

By Alumnus - 29 Apr 2022, Rate: excellent

this school is not what it seems. please be careful. sending your daughter here could be the end of her. you’ve been warned.

By Parent - 25 Mar 2022, Rate: average

the students should be able to use what bag they would like. The purple bags are easier and small so their backs don't ake when they get home. The purple bag is appropriate and has the school logo on it and is suitable to leave the school in. The teachers will yell at you if you ask them to repeat something, they will accuse you of playing games on your laptop and talking. Just because you asked them to repeat something.

By Employee - 23 Mar 2022, Rate: excellent

I love class 7F I’m 2022 they are very good at lositenknv and lots of gem are smart and have a good sence of humour

By Student - 17 Nov 2021, Rate: excellent

It’s funny how so many people are writing bad reviews on the school saying how depressed they are, but they can’t do basic spelling and grammar in like year 8. Even the ‘teacher’ reviews have grammatical issues. Like what teacher would go onto a dodgy website and review a school...

By Student - 18 Oct 2021, Rate: bad

SO MANY student have suffered from depression and have been diagnosed because of the bullying and hate, as well as horrible students and bullying the teachers here would give you a solid detention if you did not wear your hat outside of school, a house badge, a tie, if you wear short socks, detention, Purple shirts aka the younger part of the school CANNOT have purple bags coming to school and from, instead they MUST have their big chunky black bags. NOT just this but the school is SOOOO religious that when your in year 7, 8, and most likely 9 you CANNOT choose to do religion and this is just So wrong and the amount of people that have left through this year is so bad. like honestly thinking about school is just like a dead flower in a field of nothing.
If your a parent/guardian or a student don't send your kids to this school otherwise you will have a ruined childhood forever.
-teacher here are the worst :/
2021 18/10

By Student - 18 Oct 2021, Rate: poor

to be honest it is a well organised school but the bulling and the hate is awful and poor. Majority of the teachers care about grades and don't help the students with their problems. As a student I sometimes I want to fake sick to not go because of the negativity.

By Student - 13 Oct 2021, Rate: excellent

This school is a blood thirsty cult. They have been shoving us in the basement and harvesting our organs, save yourself!

By Student - 09 Oct 2021, Rate: excellent

Lourdes hill is such a nice school, a lot of the other reviews seem bad, and I’m not sure about their experience but mine is amazing. Lovely teachers, great service, awesome friends. And I’ve actually never seen someone been bullied or teased, (teased within friend groups as a joke). A lot (from my experience) of the girls that get bullied usually would have done something rude or annoying to the girls or maybe even teased them, and some of the girls bite back. But, the students there honestly don’t relate to the school, think about the actual services they provide which are amazing.

By Employee - 09 Sep 2021, Rate: bad

Hi am a teacher at Lourdes Hill College, and on Tuesday the 7th of September, a coworker and I were crossing the road into the college, when two girls, maybe in grade 8 or 9, walk up behind us. Their behavior was disgusting. They were swearing and calling each other stupid, one of them had a rainbow paddle pop, mind you it was way before 8 am, and the other one had a very unhealthy energy drink, I think a monster or something like that. I looked at them and out of nowhere they started cussing my coworker and I out. After we crossed the road and walked a different way to them I could still hear them cussing us out. It is discussing and disrespectful and I'm am very sad to see it.

By Parent - 16 Jun 2021, Rate: bad

The review that I submitted on 16 June 2021 shows an excellent rating, when in fact I meant it to be bad.

By Parent - 16 Jun 2021, Rate: excellent

I have read some of the previous comments and wanted to add that Lourdes Hill College was not the school for my daughter. She felt unsupported by the teaching staff and hated every day that she was there. She had friends, but found a lot of the girls to be unfriendly, nasty and bullying. I know that is the nature of the beast of most girls in this age. My communication with the teaching staff, with the exception of two, was very disappointing. As a result of the action and non-action by the school, my daughter developed and an eating disorder. Even though I called the school and asked her to be excluded from a particular activity, involving body image etc my request was ignored. My daughter had expressed her discomfort being in this group. Sadly, I did not find out for some time later that she was made to attended. My daughter attended LHC for 5 years, completing Year 12 in 2000. Her severve mentall illness resulted from her years there. She is now 38 and has attempted suicide 5 times. In fact today is the anniversary of her first suicide attempt, aged 15. I did make the school aware of her action and there was not one bit of compassion shown on their part. On passing two teachers, with her being the only student around and them looking directly at her, one commented "Will you hassle her today or will I?" In view of this week's events, I feel a great sorrow for the school community, but I hope that the leaders of the school are to take an honest look at themselves and the culture within the school.

By Student - 16 Jun 2021, Rate: bad

LHC is a disgusting school that is a terrible environment for young women to grow up and learn in. Many students here are bullied and suffer from mental health problems and the school couldnt care less. The counselors tell your parents everything even if you say you want to keep that information confidential. Most of the male teachers here are pervs and make you feel uncomfortable in the classroom. The principle and other 'important roles' in this school only talk about the reputation in events that could possibly threaten the reputation of this school. They set assessments very early in the term and give you very little time to do them, teachers get mad at you if you're behind in the assessment even though we have 8 other assignments to complete on top of this. They dont give support or speeches about self-growth or developing as a woman and leave students to sort them selves out. Students aren't allowed to use the bathroom during class times as if we can control our own bladder. This school is foul. do not go. run while you can.

By Student - 15 Jun 2021, Rate: bad

I hate this. The teachers are bad. No nice people. Bad bad bad school. ☺️

By Parent - 11 Jun 2021, Rate: bad

My son is transgender

By Parent - 15 Apr 2021, Rate: bad

This school is absolutely disgusting! The girls talk about incredibly inappropriate things and were a terrible influence on my daughter, I decided to send her to Somerville House instead and the girls there are very polite and I love inviting them over to our house because they are just genuinely nice people, much better that the girls at lourdes hill

By Student - 27 Oct 2020, Rate: bad

LHC... Where do I begin. This school is not what it seems I can reassure you the education is not as they make it to be and the home workload puts a ridiculous amount of pressure on students when they are given little to no time for work in class! The girls here are extremely disrespectful and teachers could not care less. Some horrible comments and behavior has been made to me that broke me and destroyed any school happiness left, I have been treated like dirt under people's shoes be some of the girls here. It is a absolute joke. Please trust all these reviews and don't make the same mistake attending a place that could make or break your child's school life.

By Parent - 25 Oct 2020, Rate: bad

Most disgusting school ever. Whenever I have contacted the school for wanting to help my daughter you get shot down. They dint care about any of the girls unless you are academic & get them a good ranking. Disgusting doesn’t even come close to describing this place.

By Parent - 18 Sep 2020, Rate: excellent

I would NEVER recommend this school to anyone thinking of sending their daughter here. Horrible, horrible, vindictive nasty people. They boast it's all about the girls - it's not!
The way the staff handle themselves and speak to the girls is disgraceful. It's not a competition.
To top it off the way that they have handled the Senior formal during COVID this year is woeful. In fact they way they have handle any event during COVID has been lazy and under par.
I have boys at another school and what they have done for them is to be commended. They split the formal over 2 nights to make it COVID safe and still ensured the boys and their partners enjoyed a great night. LSC couldn't even organise their formal well enough so the girls to be fed. So no dancing, no food, just 2 hours of listening to the teachers bang on about how great they wish they were. Why am I NOT surprised.

By Parent - 18 Sep 2020, Rate: bad

I'm not a fan

By Parent - 18 Sep 2020, Rate: bad

I would NEVER recommend this school to anyone thinking of sending their daughter here. Horrible, horrible, vindictive nasty people. The boast its all about the girls - its not!
The way the staff handle themselves and speak to the girls is disgraceful.
I have been a parent of the school for 6 years now and am in disbelief about how self absorbed and important the teachers and admin staff are.
I have no beef with the school and am only being honest but when a student gets sent home from a dance for having a 3 quarter sleeve and teacher sending her home isn't wearing a bra in a shoe string strap top with a plunged neck line it SCREAMS double standards. And in any case who is she trying to impressed? Seriously.
To top it off the way that they have handled the Senior formal during COVID this year is woeful.
I have boys at another school and what they have done for them is to be commended. They split the formal over 2 nights to make it COVID safe and still ensured the boys and their partners enjoyed a great night. These LSC idiots couldn't be bothered and today we find out the girls will not even be fed. So no dancing, no food, just 2 hours of listening to the teachers bang on about how great they wish they were. Why am I NOT surprised.

By Student - 08 Sep 2020, Rate: bad

so terrible run run RUN.

By Student - 07 Sep 2020, Rate: bad

This school is the worst school ever. There is a math teacher who isn't teaching us anything we need to know for the exam. There are some amazing teachers but 99.9999% of them are terrible. The rules are to strict and purple shirts cant use purple bags even though we wear purple shirts. People get called names behind their back and every student has been bullied and harrased in some way so unless you want a depressed child never send your children here. RUN WHILE YOU CAN LOURDES IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK.

By Student - 24 Aug 2020, Rate: bad

Lourdes Hill College is honestly the worst school ever! Purple Shirts should be allowed their purple bag, it is a "Purple Bag" and we go to a "purple school", the purple bag has the Lourdes Hill College logo. It is honestly so ridiculous that the amount of rules they have and put them into place for us to suffer! Honestly do NOT send your child here. If you want her to come home crying, complaining and crying about people talking behind her back then send her here! I would NOT send your child here!!!!!

By Student - 13 Aug 2020, Rate: bad

if you want to be bullied and have people talk behind your back, this school is for you! If you focus on your studies and the high expectations, maybe you wont get crushed by the anxiety of the social life at Lourdes. I am a student here right now and i am alone, discouraged, sad, I have no friends and more :). there is always drama, fights and everything. Run.

By Student - 06 Aug 2020, Rate: bad

I swear, you will regret ever coming to the school in the first place. everyone sucks. you cant watch you tube over breaks, you will get a detention for the smallest thing and you can bring your purple bag home. People bully, talk behind others back and you dont get 'space to be yourself' (school motto)

By Student - 30 Jul 2020, Rate: bad

I would not recommend coming to this school. Not all teachers but multiple teachers are Transphobic and homophobic. Someone in my class came out as a transgender male. instead of the school supporting them and making them feel comfortable some teachers from the school told this person that it was illegal to call this person by their preferred pronouns and that they should not be themselves because they said that "Some people wouldn't be okay with it" in reality it was them who wasn't comfortable with it. The school should not be shooting this student down but should be building them up. I'm sure that it was hard enough for this person to come out in the first place but for the school to react in this way is absolutely disgusting. I'm not saying that all the teachers at Lourdess Hill College are like this but the ones that are are disgraceful and an embarrassment to this school. This student has the right to be who they are inside, teachers should not be aloud to speak this way to a student as it is not their choice and if they don't understand they should ask for information about it and not behave in this way. When this student told their fellow class mates about this everyone was outraged and disgusted in the teachers that said these things to the student. Everyone who found out what teachers these teachers had said everyone had lost all respect for them.

By Parent - 29 Jul 2020, Rate: bad

its just a really bad place to go... run while you can.

By Parent - 20 Jul 2020, Rate: poor

The facilities are good but the education subpar

By Parent - 17 Jul 2020, Rate: excellent

I am not a parent, but I am a member of the Brisbane community and I find it shocking that pupils of Lourdes Hill College behave negatively in public. The school does not seem to educate the young women of LHC about proper behaviour in public spaces, especially while they are in uniform

By Parent - 17 Jul 2020, Rate: bad

My daughter's aniexty skyrocketed after attending this school. The college promotes Christian values but do not follow through with them.

By Parent - 11 Jun 2020, Rate: bad

horrible 10/10 would not recommend

By Parent - 25 May 2020, Rate: bad

They should be allowed to wear as many piercings they want.

By Parent - 19 May 2020, Rate: bad

Intimation and bullying from the Principle, the school is run like a corporation rather than a compassionate christian school. The school doesn’t subscribe to christian values in practice only in theory. Very money focused and very harsh management style from the Principle. Very disappointing.

By Student - 19 May 2020, Rate: bad

The school seems fantastic from and outside perspective showing good academic results, many sporting opportunities, and many service groups. Unfortunately, this is all a façade.
LHC only shows the schools successes and any failures are hidden from the public. If anything, negative happens - whether it be student behaviour or school caused problems - teachers are instructed to tell students not to take photos, video's or discuss the problem outside of school out of fears of damaging the reputation of the school. There is very minimal support for "normal" student; girls who have learning difficulties and high achieving girls are far more likely to get help from staff; it is great that girls with difficulties (autism, dyslexia, etc) can get help but it leaves the rest of us with minimal support. I personally have gone to get extra assistance in the past from and additional studies teacher because I was struggling in my regular class, when my teacher found out I was asked to stop seeking support from the other staff member because I showed no signs of struggling in my previous results. They also tend to “show off” the high achieving students in front of all students, it doesn’t matter to them: even if you are giving 100% effort to your studies if you don’t get 7 A’s on your report card you won’t receive praise.
The college also embeds into developing girls that they are to be feminine and look good at all times. Shoulders covered, no low necklines, skirts below the knee, blazer in the winter and autumn, enclosed shoes, always wear your hat, ties must have all the badges, no ankle socks, no jewellery unless its religious but even then it must be hidden, only silver or gold sleeper or studs for earing and only one piercing in your ears, purple or white ribbon in your hair, or else you will face detention. These strict dress code rules don’t seem particularly unfair when students are on school property – I can understand they don’t want us looking like hooligans on school property, but these rules are enforced outside of school as well. You cannot go grocery shopping strait after school but swap your black leather shoes to thongs because god forbid the outside world know that Lourdes Hill College pupils don’t live in their uniform 24/7.
They claim to promote a girls supporting girls environment were everyone gets the space to be themselves but I don’t believe I have ever felt more insecure an harshly judged by teachers and peers since attending this school. Even in scenarios like this councillor are no help – they only help with organising, constantly repeating “remember to use your diary.” I know many girls who have resulted to self-harm and developed eating disorders from the constant bulling and lack of support
The students have the power to release all the terrible information about the school, and the school needs to work out these problems or the information will be released, and the reputation will never be able to fully recover

By Parent - 08 Jan 2020, Rate: bad

PURPLE SHIRTS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE THEIR PURPLE BAGS.

By Student - 06 Jan 2020, Rate: poor

From the beginning of year 8 to now my confidence levels have gone down hill. If your looking for a school to decrease your confidence levels, LHC is the one. With the school only praising and acknowledging those with who get good marks and have a high academic level at academic assembly’s in front of those who may struggle and continue to put 100 percent effort in there work even if they are not a high academic standard. They don’t even acknowledge those who put 100 percent in beside one girl each grade. Not only this but to continue to rave on about those who are at a higher standard than others. Only to put the girls who are sitting there watching down to thinking that they are not good enough when it comes to academics.

By Parent - 02 Nov 2019, Rate: bad

Despite the warm facade, this is a horrendous school to go to. No single teacher is equipped to handle mental health problems, particularly those which arise out of attention seeking young girls. Instead, teachers look to those around the girl to blame for her behaviour. School councillors and misinformed, highly unprofessional and cannot deal with these kinds of situations in a productive manner.
Oftentimes those representing the school for a "no judgement culture" are the most judgemental ones and teachers are only interested in those who are outspoken or willing to suck up.
Teachers are a key issue with the school - too single minded to understand the different personalities of children. Core principles of the school have absolutely no idea what is going on inside the walls of the schools with many girls suicidal as a result of the culture fostered within the school.

By Student - 24 Jul 2019, Rate: bad

I currently attend the school and believe it is not a good environment for young women to grow up in. There is a lot of bullying and the staff care more about making the school look good instead of actually creating a good education. There was also recently a bullying incident involving the principle and head of students toward a student after she had shaved her head for a charity. Would not recommend.

By Student - 22 Sep 2018, Rate: bad

I attended LHC for one semester during Grade 8 and it was the worst experience of my life. Although this school has many great facilities, there really is nothing else I could praise about this school. Bullying is horrendous (I was one of the many victims) and the school does nothing to solve this problem. The school has no individual care nor support for any of the students. There are 1300+ girls cramped into the tiny school grounds, thus the school is overcrowded. Students are often rowdy and swear a lot. The school also overly emphasises femininity with the ridiculous purple uniform and rules that force the girls to wear bows in their hair and focus on "looking good". I would not recommend this school.

By Parent - 05 Apr 2018, Rate: excellent

Lourdes Hill College is an enchanting, excellent and brilliant school. It offers everything that a girl would want.

By Student - 19 Mar 2016, Rate: excellent

Really nice friends and teachers!!!
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By Parent - 17 Mar 2016, Rate: good

Great facilities. Recommend open day held late October. Students seem very happy there. Rowing shed on the river.

By Parent - 10 Mar 2016, Rate: excellent

I have been very satisfied with the College. I have had one daughter finish over the last couple of years and another who is in her second year. Both have been very happy and have achieved well because of the extra support given by teachers and the school leadership. I recommend Lourdes as an excellent school to send young women

By Employee - 10 Mar 2016, Rate: average

As a teacher i find a strong culture of intimidation from the Principal. The pretence of striving for academic practice is provided but there a range of competing agendas that take priority. An example is the number of days in any Term 1 program lost for other programs, plus no subject excursions since 2014 and no overseas excursions to come unless hosted as an \"immersion\". We hear that the aim is to be a Tier 2 school whatever that means, why not aim higher? Mediocrity is a poor goal. The school agenda also sap pears to be sexist in that traditional female stereotypes rather than 21st century progressive women who are as equally equipped for this century as young men is not promoted or encouraged. Being very insular (an attempt to control everything to within the walls of the college like a bubble of micro-managed isolation), perhaps there is ignorance about what a 21st century female is. The middle school theme design has potential but any advantage is lost in the cluttered curriculum provided. The arts subjects are given more time within the creativity theme than the relationships and investigation themes and yet the skill sets for better OP results and university entrance require more focus on exposure to numeracy and literacy (not given AC indicative time). The rating is average to reflect the goal of the Principal and the apparent strategic directions.

By Parent - 29 Nov 2014, Rate: excellent

According to my two daughters in Yr 8 & - LOURDES HILL COLLEGE, HAWTHORNE is the best school. They have attended other schools and they are having the happiest experiences at LHC.

By Student - 02 Sep 2014, Rate: poor

I attended LHC for 2.5 years. Lourdes Hill seems like a wonderful school on the surface, especially in grade 8 it is an amazing start to high school. However, grade 9 is where most of the complaints lie. There is bullying at LHC, and while this exists to a certain extent at every school, my experience has concluded that this school does little to nothing about it. It's a very negative school environment, and a lot of girls I've found are not happy there. An all girls school is very catty and there is always nastiness looming, from homeroom to the corridors to class. I much prefer the co-ed school I'm at now and would not recommend Lourdes Hill College (As a student) after grade 8.

By Student - 24 Jun 2013, Rate: excellent

It is an excellent school with a fantasic range of opputunities. From its diverese athletic, music, arts and of course academia programs the school challenges girls to achieve their best in every aspect of their life.

By Parent - 24 May 2010, Rate: excellent

The facilities, opportunities and support provided for all three of my girls has been simply exceptional. All my girls are completely different in character and personality and all have managed to blossom in their own areas in ways I could never have imagined. Apart from the expected grumbles in regards of workload, early mornings etc, I have very rarely heard any of them come out with anything negative concerning the college. I have three very beautiful young women for daughters and that I know I can largely attribute to their time at LHC.