Northcliff High School

My experience? Well where do I start, the staff at the school are always choosing favorites and those favorites are the ones with money. The racism in this school is at its peak and when they say they treat everyone equally, they don’t. Now onto the code of conduct, we had a civvies day at school recently, I came to school in a oversized t-shirt and skirt, which was perfect length to be appropriate and even if they had a problem with it I could make it longer cause it was stretchy. They all stared at me (the staff) and gave me dirty looks, treating me like I was wearing nothing at all when actually this outfit was almost full coverage and barely any skin was showing. During class they pulled me out of class and asked me to go to the office (myself and another girl) we went to the office and they start shouting at us about how our outfits are distracting everyone and that it’s not appropriate when it actually was, they proceeded to shame us and told us that we should find another school and told us they’ll kick us out. They handed me a pair of used leggings and told us to put it on and gave the other girl a old jersey with stains on. We proceeded to walk to the bathroom to get changed, at this point we are furious at them because they shouldn’t be allowed to degrade us like this. We walk out the bathroom and go to office because they wanted to see, they look at us up and down and say “thank god, now the world won’t be distracted by you both, now go away”. When I tell you I have never felt more insecure and self conscious, they made me feel so terrible it was one of the worst experience of my life and I’ll never forget it
I highly don’t recommend putting yourself through this by going to this school and I hope this gives you insight on what the students go through…

Riddled with racism, teachers that dont teach in class that just sit behind their desks, sexism, boys club. Grade tutors are incompetent and do not care about the students. Bullying and sexual harassment is rife and no one gives a damn. Image image image is all they care about.kids are just a commodity. Unqualified staff, staff on drugs, staff going out drinking with kids from school, staff on school camps get intoxicated and cant even walk. Teachers bullied by executive staff if they stand up for us kids, teachers playing games on phones instead of teaching. This school looks amazing from the outside. But inside its rotten.

In all honesty the school does not take consideration for students who mentally struggle with school as a whole. The school hides serious matters under exploitation of authority and white privelage which affects students I'm very harmful ways. The school needs to improve the control of bullying, racism, homophobia and harassment by communicating with students on these matters. Poc students and people who come fr various religious backgrounds have little to no recognition in the school and are continuously undermined by white people. The education system is very poor due to the unnecessary topics that are being taught repeatedly and have not been updated to recent time. Engagement with students on these topics on current time can help improve work ethic and help with freedom of communication in classrooms. Needless to say I have made amazing friends that have helped me grow as a better person and stand up for what I believe in. Hopefully the school can face their faults and acknowledge what they're doing is wrong and need to change for the better of the future.

I personally haven’t noticed the racism at all— but students with more money are favoured in the school. The teachers choose favourites and don’t assist the students they ‘don’t like’ when asking for help

Northcliff high is an amazing school. It has an amazing sport programme.

Very good school! Wish I could go back for another 4 years. Greatest of my life!!!!!!

I do not recommend this school at all!!! I had the worst experience, I was bullied by not only pupils but teachers as well for having a condition which at the time I couldn’t control. I went to the school and received so care, they do not care about their students. All the school cares about is beating other schools in sports, especially Randpark High School, that is their main concern. My brothers friends got a scholarship for Northcliff and they turned it down saying they were going to go to another school and the Head or Sports said “Shame I pity you”, they are unprofessional. This is one of many examples. They mock schools for what goes wrong with them, but trust me they have their dirty secrets as well. They are unprofessional and cocky when they shouldn’t be. And don’t even get me started on the favoritism. More obsessed with their image than anything else.