Marrickville High School

approaching graduation and its definitely improved since 2017 (when I started) in a number of areas. they finally have an eftpos machine for the canteen, faculties have better teachers whom, despite having a high workload, are committed and driven when it comes to putting students first, and they offer a pretty nice selection of subjects (i wish they ran economics though). being someone who has loved software & game dev/design since a young age, they offer hands-on 'application based' subjects like coding and multimedia. juniors will benefit from learning the basics like HTML, CSS, javascript, python and some SQL (i learnt this in years 7 and 8) and seniors have the option to choose subjects like industrial tech multimedia which really gets into the technical side of industry-standard software (e.g autodesk maya, after effects, premiere pro, indesign & illustrator). plus, we have a really good teacher (ms. keats) who also teaches the younger years. decades of experience in industry and knows exactly what she's talking about (you would be surprised how hard it is to find tech teachers like that. we're super fortunate). bullying is pretty much non-existent from what i've seen and we have quite a diverse and inclusive range of students, despite the odd but small bunch who sadly still use words fa**ot in the playground. our school, however, offers good support networks consisting of teachers who have 'coordinator' roles who you can go to if you feel like you're being discriminated against. our biggest con is the small problem that we have with vaping, but the school deals with those losers pretty well if they're caught (suspension). overall though, I recommend!

the fights that go down here are epic, 10/10 school. no one tell dem about fight club tho or it will be cancelled and we will have to move to henson park for the punch ups