Montgrove College

If you are an extremely Catholic parent who wants your daughters to grow up in an environment where they believe they are subservient to men, deserve hell if they are gay, and receive absolutely zero formal sexual education, this is the perfect school for you! (Provided you don’t care for their mental well-being, are okay with a school that allows teachers to bully students and has no system for dealing with these problems, and don’t care if your daughter has a stunted worldview).

With tiny year groups, too bad if your daughter can’t make friends or ends up in a class with a bully problem: that’s the only class in the entire grade! She’ll just have to cope, or change schools, if she wants to avoid her bullies!

And as for the teachers, do not expect any issues with a teacher to be solved whatsoever! Montrgove believes in unquestioning faith in the adults they employ, and will chalk up any concerns their students have to mere childish disrespect. Even if an entire year group gets together and complains to the head of high school! Yes, that’s right! Even parents and students together are not enough to convince Montrgove staff that they’ve got a bully among them!

It’s always a mixed bag at Montgrove, and it ultimately comes down to luck whether you get put into a class with strong students who want to work hard and get good results, with good teachers to guide them— or a class full of 20 other girls who don’t place such clear importance on their academic goals, with teachers who will not support struggling students, and will put down even those few students who want to try their best.

If you are only considering Montrgove for their academic outcomes, please, do not send your daughter here. At least not with any expectation that she will graduate high school as a well-rounded individual without any strange residue beliefs about her self-worth or identity as a result of having been raised in such a weird environment.

I did well academically at this school, some of the teachers at the time I was there were genuinely great at their jobs. But the damage to my mental health probably could have been avoided if I had have gone to a different school without such intense focus on Catholicism and Opus Dei.

And the variety of subjects taught in senior high school and for the HSC was nonexistent. The school is far too small for you to consider it as a good academic school. It’s bad enough that it isn’t co-ed. Your daughter’s social education will be abysmal.

As a former student, please, do not send your children to this school if you really care about them.