Kooringal High School

This school is so good. It offers the best opportunities for its students in the entire riverina - and its free!!! I have been going to KHS for 2 years, and I could not imagine life at another school. The teachers are lovely, and I feel very well supported. It is a safe environment, with an exceptional wellbeing team, that appreciate the opinions of each and every student. 110% recommend this school. Speak to anyone who goes here, or the teachers, and they will say the same. Top school in the riverina.

I have attended KHS since year 7 and I am currently in year 12. I’ll start off with the positives. The CAPA (creative and performing arts) at the school are quite good for a public high school, especially the productions and many of the teachers are really nice. There are also plenty of opportunities within the school such as sporting and performance as well as awesome excursions like the senior CAPA excursion. Shoutout to Mrs Fitz for being an awesome careers advisor. The learning support staff are also great. Unfortunately some teachers and the current principal suck and the students can be extremely violent. There are fights everyday. The school is also falling apart with many areas constantly under construction. Many students at the school also partake in illicit drugs such as vapes and weed in school and have sex on school property. As a former member of the SRC and a current member of Senior Leadership, they don’t take into account what we say and just do what they want which included taking away the production budget for new grass. The wellbeing also had been cut down so it is now harder to access mental health help within the school which sucks as I’m about to do my HSC trials and I can’t talk to wellbeing about it. I will say that the school has improved since I started but it still has a very long way to go before it is even considered a good school but because it is regional the government won’t do much to help.

Great wellbeing, bad students but overall a good education and staff

This school is a violent mess. Fights happen every other day and teachers do almost nothing to prevent or stop them. But what’s even worse is the higher up, like the principals and deputies. These people do not care for the betterment of the school or the wellbeing of their students, they care about making the school appear better than it actually is. I was physically assaulted last week at this school, I was sent to the hospital because of this and the girl who did this to me did not receive any punishment.