Santa Maria College

"TERRIBLE SCHOOL i am a current student and going in everyday makes me feel sick i feel attacked and bullied by teachers picking on my appearance and uniform thats all they care about not your actual wellbeing with the amount of money you pay you don’t do anything special"

"Santa Maria College. The self proclaimed " Best school in Melbourne with progressive learning " couldn't be far from the truth. If you cant handle this review, keep scrolling. This is my experience. The teachers care more about your hair being tied up than your education, and give you detentions for wearing rings. They strip you from your personality and religion, forcing you to rid of anything other than uniform. As teenagers, it can be hard to obey these rules, and we should not be punished by it. The students are rude, and friendship groups revolve around rich pick-me girls, with no respect. Getting bullied was common for some students, including myself. The staff claim the do things against it, but the effort is low, and I think i speak for everyone when I say it happens too often, they don't seem to care anymore. You get in trouble for the silliest things, and I don't understand why. The uniform is blocky, ugly and hard to wear. It's not wonder the student refuse to wear it. The school claims to be " Caring " and " kind ' when thats all a lie. A student with a different religion was forced to go to church, which is just wrong. And despite them having posters everywhere about respecting pronouns, most of the teachers don't use them for trans or non- binary people. The school is a gimic, and despite all this, they intend to teach the students that this is the best school ever, and almost trick them in a way. 1/10."

"i would say Santa is a relatively good school. They Really seem to care about our uniform but only the teachers that are 'higher up'. Otherwise most of the teachers are really nice to talk to! the actual teaching is Meh, could be better. Honestly too many assignments, but some teachers will give you extensions. There is SOO much drama within the students enough that my friend group who is not involved with the drama has had to help and 'adopt' the people who basically got bullied for no reason. But The Friends i have made here have been some of the best people i have ever met "

"The teachers are biased, disrespectful to students and don't do their job correctly. The principal, staff and teachers DO NOT care about the students education, they care more about wearing the students uniforms correctly and their reputation then actually educating the children and if the students don't wear EVEN THE RIGHT SOCKS, they would give them a dimeric point. I'm genuinely disappointed considering the fact that we have to pay 6-10 thousand dollars of fees to stay in this school, absolutely disgusting and disappointing. I graduated from this school a year ago after being in this school for 6 years, let me tell you during the 6 years I've been here, I've developed non-stop depression, yes, they do talk about bullying and how it's wrong, but do they do anything about it? No, they do NOT care. I don't recommend attending this school. They make the work and homework way too challenging even for year sevens, assessments and assignments pile up everyday, even when I'd stay organized the teachers keep piling them up and expecting us to do all the subjects assessments in under a week and if we don't, we would get a lecture. The school is way too strict, prestige and overwhelming. If you know what's best for you, you wouldn't attend this school, I'm sorry."

"Best girls school for my granddaughter"