St Albans Secondary College

Detention and sent home for socks and overpriced canteen. Teachers will send you to get a late pass if you are right outside the door.

I’m a fellow student at this school the dress code is outstandingly strict you have to have a certain sock spend a few hundred dollars on poor quality uniform and strict teachers.
I have a teacher that says if you don’t answer the question you will get a detention to the whole class that’s because no one knows the answer like even homework you spend 6.5 hours of school a day then spend 2 hours additional at home so almost 9 hours homework shall be done at school
My whole class agrees with my statements so the school shall change this dramatically.

-fellow student

Bro sm kids broke one of the bathroom stall doors and the coordinators got 14 kids suspended, majority of which didnt even do anything, they just happened to be near the bathroom when it happened

Hello, I am a female student currently in yr8 and was thinking of moving schools to St Albans SC, next year so I could have a better education for yr9, but after hearing these comments I am beginning to have doubts and worries.
So if someone is willing so reply to my comment and provide information if the school has a good education system and their experience with the grading system in the school, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you for taking your time to read this.

Seal program completely screws kids over, all mainstream kids end up catching up with them in yr 12 anyways.if anything it disadvantages them.don’t bring ur kids here <3

This school is absolutely terrible! First and foremost they care more about uniform, socks etc than learning! The principal Mrs. Dowsley is extremely unprofessional as well!

And the staff and coordinators here are disgraceful, they racial profile anyone it is absolutely disgusting behaviour and this should not be allowed anywhere! If you want your kid to come to a school where they can get discriminated and go home crying because they wore the wrong socks than this school is perfect for you! The toilets are also nauseating, never cleaned and there are kids hotboxing the toilet with vaporized smoke! My kids can barely breathe in the toilets.

One of my kids, came home with a bruised leg! I called up the school and they did absolutely nothing about it! I was really wanting to call the Police on this matter, but they said they would resolve it and nothing happened still. The sport teachers make fun of people who can't control their weight calling them "FAT". They also don't let anyone go toilet and as a single mother I believe my kids have the freedom and right to go toilet whenever they want! We are moved schools ever since and my kids have been loving it.

This is your warning do not come to this school!

Good morning everyone, I was a Year 9 student here previously. Here is my experience and opinions about St Albans Secondary College.

My education here has not been the best. All the rumours you have heard, socks and uniform before education, bullying, staff disprecting students and vaping, it's really unfortunate because it's true. I have seen it all with my own eyes, if you wanted to express your opinions to any teachers then you would simply get in trouble for talking back. The toilets are very unsanitary and disgusting and smoke every where. Corrupt school system don't respect students at all and don't understand the stress the sudents are in, when it comes to bullying every staff looks the other way. Coordinators rather take students out of class, teachers distrupt lessons and given detention just because they wore below ankle socks, 1 logo on the sock, wearing wrong pants or shirts. The school motto? "Truth is our light", no that's wrong it isn't at all, they all lie even lied about the strict bullying system.

The staff at SASC don't like critism very much, though they support a lot of stuff doesn't mean the inside look is good. If you are a parent reading this, please don't enrol your kid here, because trust me you will regret everything. I have been called many mean things, racist stuff and other stuff. Not to mention I had to keep up with work and the mean comments I was getting, It was stressful. I was on the verge on self harm and had suicidal thoughts every day after school, after moving schools and going to a therapist I have been able to find myself again and enjoy my new friends and teachers at my new school (I go to CRC now). And to mention, when I was getting in a physical contact with someone who was bullying me (I didn't approach him he pushed me), I tried to run but I couldn't so I pushed back and guess what? I'm suspended for 7 days and bully was suspended for a day, they told me to just run and tell a teacher but guess what? They didn't want me to explain what happened instead just suspended me. Incredible justice system SASC.

Do not come to this school.

Coordinators are horrible I feel like I have been discriminated against multiple times. I have only had a good experience with one teacher the rest don’t respect me!

The school is bad its canteen is ripoff the yogurt is bad and every teacher is bad only 2 teachers are good my class mate jumps of windows

This place is the probably the worse school around with like only 3 good teachers while the others tells you to copy stuff from a book that you own into your notes then gives you homework.

St. Albans Secondary College staff are extremely difficult to contact via landline communication. Total disappointment on different occassions attempting to communicate via telephone. A real pity if there was an emergency or life threatening situation, students are put at risk. Advoid this school if you cherish your children.

I’m about to go to this school tomorrow, seeing these bad reviews are making me not wanna go. I start yr 8 so hopefully I’ll make good friends.

Honestly this school gave me a bad vibe from the beginning. On my first day I was already getting bullied by a few asian students that were saying my hair was to curly and my dress was to short, not to mention this school looks like it came out of asia or something, seriously it's so hard to make friends here because all of the students are just so mean. This school isn't as good as i had hoped I'm just glad im moving schools soon. I also have very severe stress so i need to take some days off just so i feel comfortable.

School is very good, the toilets are pretty unsanitary but I don't blame the school. Students get a long with each other and make friendly jokes. The teachers are very nice, they always help students with their assignments and homework.

Just don't go to the toilets. They too smelly.
Otherwise the school is ok as long as you have good friends.

I dont go to this school but reading the reviews makes me think that this school would be better if it burnt down

The teachers amazing, helping students for school work, respect all the cultures and families.

I was a keen student of this school way back in the 1960s when it was called ST. ALBANS HIGH SCHOOL then. And this school had received so many awards for excellence of service back then. It really helped me achieve my career objectives and i always got up in the mornings so enthused to rush to my first class each day. BUT, now that i read all these SAD SAD reviews, its really hard to accept the unfortunate downturn. I do hope it can pick up its act and shine once again as it would be a crying shame to have to close down this historic StAlbans true icon due to students going elsewhere for education.

There was an incident about last week Tuesday 10/9. There was another student from different school breaking into the school from the car park who is agitating and breaking all stuff (almost) and we feel distressful, to be honest this school needs a bit more improvement such as security guard to prevent the robbers, agitating (mad) student and others. Thank you

Teachers would rather put students in a bs seating arrangement then actually get to know them, This has just caused more disruptions in classes. School is so obsessed with appearance that they send kids home for having 'wrong' socks or not a school branded scarf (the overpriced bit of cloth with the school logo on it that serves no purpose other than money making) Not only are the teachers rude and disrespectful but so are the students there. Not to mention teachers are always late to classes but you're not allowed to say anything about that are you. Look elsewhere.