Maribyrnong Secondary College

I graduated at Maribyrnong college, and found that by the time I had entered year 8 any of the decent teachers had already left. Most of the new staff are incompetent and unfriendly. The classrooms themselves have much room for improvement, with the portables being structurally unsafe, as well as many having leaks. It was also recently found that most the buildings were built with asbestos, which, concerningly, was removed while students attended school. There is also a big segregation between sports academy and mainstream students, which was enforced at the beginning of year 7, resulting in many unresolved conflicts between students, stemming from a preventable prejudice and bias. Many of my mainstream friends also complained about staff being bias towards sports academy students, which I can confirm as a witness. Overall, the school prioritises budgeting towards sporting equipment over educational resources, which should be the priority of a public education centre. Outdoor environment was quite poor, as there was no shelter for wet and rainy days, during snack and lunch, as well as between classes. Security was also extremely poor as students often snuck out to highpoint without ever being caught. I do not want to name any names, but my younger sibling who will be a 2027 graduate often reported back with horrifying stories about the middle school coordinators of 2023-2024, some of which were so bad that our parents got in touch out of concern, which did not result in any change. As of last year my brother has moved schools, and has never came home so confident and happy. He described Maribyrnong College as having a "violent and problematic culture that's just normalised", which I also experienced. Please, coming from two students, one who graduated there and one who had to leave midway through, do not send your kids to Marby :)

I am a student who attended Maribyrnong as a Sports Academy Scholarship holder. The school itself isn't as bad as many people make it seem on other online reviews. The classrooms are all pretty renovated and look alright however the portables are old and one of them smells a bit off putting but it still used as a classroom as far as I know. Like any school there are some teachers who are extremely dedicated to helping students while other do the bare minimum to get some of their students to pass tests and exams so that results do not reflect badly on them. Thankfully there are only a handful of teachers which are the latter. To improve the school could probably build more shaded outside areas as when it rains they only open one classroom per sub school (2 year levels) which would result in packed classrooms and would force students to stay outside. The sports program was extremely helpful and teachers were often more understanding of the lesser amount of work many student athletes required due to training commitments. Another thing that needs switched is the rule about changing clothes. Students must get changed before their sporting classes and out of the sports uniform at either recess or lunch. This was an issue for everyone as all cubicles would fill up almost instantly when the bell went and many students would end up being forced to get changed in front of lockers. Changing didn't seem like an issue at first but when you want to eat but end up spending your lunchtime waiting for a cubicle 5 days a week, it gets tiring. The school has just received a new principal though, so there are high hopes for a better future for the school.

Worst school use ever been too (I went too 4 highschools..) Mr maybon is the only good teacher 🙏