Hamilton Girls' High School

I attended HGHS from year 9-13. From years 9-11, I was a top excellence student. Heavily involved in extra-curriculars, always asking for extra work. Until my parents divorced. I began failing exams, missing classes. The school offered absolutely no support. In fact, I was basically forgotten. I went from "teacher's pet" to getting away with absolutely anything because no one cared enough to ask why I had changed.
Don't send your girls here.

10/10 would not recommend coming here!!

they care about if you have more than one earing than your actual mental health, im in year 10 and my biggest regret is coming here. ive asked to be moved class multiple times and the deans do nothing. the only thing i did enjoy is the community the people here are nice but only when your are year 9 or very smart. dont go to this school if you dont want to feel worthless!!!!! also the canteen is so expensive.

The social life is good as there but it doesn't really encourage excellence. in my experience there are lots of opportunities to get involved such as house events, sports, etc and the structuring of tutor/whanau groups makes it easy to make and stay in contact with friends. However, there isn't really a push for excellence and teachers encourage students to achieve rather than excel. We only got 6 scholarships this year compared to Hamilton Boys 70 or so which is very dissapointing to see such a difference between the two schools.

I have been attending Hamilton Girls’ High School since Year 9 and I am now Year 11. My mental health has gone down hill ever since I’ve started going here. The teachers say they’re here for you and will help you if you need. But the next second you’re getting a consequence for having incorrect uniform. Also telling them my problems made me feel even more stressed, and I felt as if I was getting no help at all.
So it is compulsory for Year 9’s to do this thing called song fest in most of the school houses. Song fest is something where you sing and dance, honestly I wouldn’t know because I’ve never turned up. Anyways, my tutor class was forced into song fest even though I am Year 11. I have severe anxiety and hate the feeling of singing in front of others and being on a stage. But I was forced into singing today. Clearly the school does not think about students mental health and put them down for things WAY out of their comfort zone. Either way, I tried my best in the practice even if I was just whispering the words. Then a student running song fest came along. Came
up to me and told me to sing louder. I quote “I CANT HEAR YOU SING LOUDER” as she continues to put her ear up to my mouth. I later on went to morning tea and had a panic attack. I hope nobody sends their daughter here as yes, most classes are decent but a lot of the teachers can’t teach or have favourite students and don’t care about the others. The only thing keeping me here is I do not wish to disappoint my parents by dropping out, and I want an education. But being forced into something like songfest will affect my education greatly as it makes me not want to come to school.

Pretty average school with great opportunities for leadership. As there’s no boys, there is no competition for girls trying to get into sport team/student council against male counterparts. School has many different subjects which you can take and many many extra curricular activities for student to meet new people etc.. This is quite a good school, however, the school guidance councillors and nurse are not helpful at all. Not to mention the foul toilets and changing rooms which need a good air out and deep clean. Bullying also seems to be quite a big problem which never seems to be fixed. Other than those things, this school is cool as, especially the yearly ‘shows’ collaborated with hamilton boys high.

The school is ok. I've been going for 4 years now, the education sucks and the people there aren't the nicest but the sports...yeah actually the sports sucks to. I love lunch times though.