James Ruse Agricultural High School, Carlingford School Reviews

James Ruse Agricultural High School, Carlingford

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By Student - 09 Jun 2022, Rate: poor

TOO much pressure to perform.

By Student - 08 Jun 2022, Rate: poor

TOO much pressure to perform.

By Student - 08 Mar 2022, Rate: excellent

James Ruse hate isn't justified but it's still funny to watch people try
anyways we have cabbages

By Student - 07 Feb 2022, Rate: excellent

You guys just saying it's bad because you didn't even get in the school

By Alumnus - 19 Jan 2022, Rate: excellent

Ruse is a school where students are universally supportive of one another - encourage and celebrate the success of their peers.
They all share a common goal to achieve their individual best, and typically that is the result.
It is a unique environment of almost universal student harmony across and within the grades - an experience foreign to most high school students in Australia, whether from independent, private or public schools.
6 of the best years of my life !

By Parent - 11 Nov 2021, Rate: good

I SO GOD IN STUDY. I HAV MORE FRIEND THAN U AND TEACHER JEALOUS OF ME BALLS. ALL BOY LIKE TO TALK ME AND I SO SMART THAN PRINCIPAL . I EAT LOT CANDY AND TEETH ROT AND FRIEND NOT BULLY ME . GOOD SCHOL AND GIVE FREE CHOCLAT FOR GOOD KIDS. ENROL NOW AND ASK FOR CANDY

By Student - 13 Oct 2019, Rate: excellent

This is a good school.

By Student - 13 Apr 2019, Rate: excellent

Anyone k any good competitions to do or what to put on the applications to get in?

By Parent - 06 Apr 2019, Rate: excellent

My son is in year 11. Uts a bery good school. Unless your kids are highly gifted, you won’t enjoy

By Student - 23 Feb 2019, Rate: excellent

-A serious review from someone who actually GOES HERE-
Honestly the reason why we’re number one every year is because we’re number one every year. And smart kids like to be surrounded by other smart kids.
We have a lot of clubs and extracurricular activities here and the teachers all encourage us to join them so we can become “all-rounded”. There’s also yearly fitness tests.
Agriculture is compulsory until year 11. Yes we have cows, chickens, sheep and horses. You’re also marked on the crops you grow in class plots. There’s also technology (metalwork and woodwork) but no cooking or textiles or any special subjects for girls, since James Ruse was originally a boys only school.
Carlingford is very hot in summer and the fans in the hall doesn’t really work. Some of the classrooms are kinda old. (But the P&C will probably “refurbish” them soon) Our teachers are okay depending on who you get.
Conclusion: Come to us!!! And thanks for listening to my non logically sequenced mess of an essay

By Parent - 27 Nov 2018, Rate: excellent

worst school lol hows it ranked 1 when no one barely passed the hsc

By Parent - 04 Sep 2018, Rate: excellent

Very spicy school, very best for listening to Chinese music I listen to very god music, ENGRSH IS BEST LEARN AT SCHOOL, I CAME FROM OLD TOWN IN INDIA AND NOW I CAN BE PRIME MINISTER I VERY AM SO SMART, I SMART SO MUCH THAT TEACHER JEALOUS OF MY SMARTNESS NOT GOD SCHOL

By Student - 15 May 2018, Rate: average

I don't go to this school, but is it bad that I look up to them? I'm also in a selective school but it isn't the best. I was thinking of applying to this school but I'm clueless

By Employee - 11 Apr 2018, Rate: bad

i don't get paid enough and i never get my pay check on time IF i even get it

By Student - 11 Apr 2018, Rate: bad

this school only encourages kids to do agriculture and nothing else no math or other stuff ;like english or science
terrible don't recommend this school

By Student - 19 Feb 2018, Rate: excellent

i honour your school actually
xo

By Alumnus - 25 Nov 2017, Rate: bad

Overrated

By Student - 03 Nov 2017, Rate: excellent

Mystery.

By Parent - 16 Aug 2017, Rate: excellent

This is an amazing school I always had a dream to go into this school but sadly I could't pass the selective test. Any way congratulations to all the people who made it in this year and good luck on turning over a new leaf.

By Student - 07 Nov 2016, Rate: excellent

i luv dis school

By Parent - 10 Jun 2016, Rate: bad

This school touched my son's private bags. The boys in this school tried to lick my son's ice cream. Also, don't forget about the fact they tried to make my daughter suck on their crispy nuts they brought from home.

By Parent - 10 Jun 2016, Rate: bad

do not delete my reviews/comments this school tried to touch my school's private bags and the boys tried to make my daughter suck on their crispy nuts they bought from woolworths

By Parent - 11 Mar 2016, Rate: excellent

my son attending Ruse, all i can say it is a ver good school. there is collaboration between students, teachers n community. it is a happy school.

By Student - 13 Feb 2016, Rate: average

Saw the school, looked ugly. I dont even care if the school is number one looked freaky

By Student - 10 Feb 2016, Rate: excellent

James Ruse acts like they're on top of the world and is the best in NSW, because that's what they are. They're hogging the first place spot in HSC because... Who wouldn't want to hog it?
I went to James Ruse and I would like to say the environment is hardly competitive. It's more of a regular high school, but everyone is a genius so being smart isn't special.
All the best games at James Ruse aren't throwing potatoes at each other, or maths quiz wars.
(It's actually spot the white guy or the blonde/red hair guy

By Alumnus - 27 Jan 2016, Rate: average

Please keep thrniwog these posts up they help tons.

By Parent - 06 Dec 2015, Rate: excellent

Wow.. just wow....

By Employee - 26 Nov 2015, Rate: bad

I don't have love you so much so too but I'm the only thing you that the government of the a national championship game against the wall in the world to me to the point of view where you are can get it right to get my hair money nails and the rest of your my the same thing time in for me

By Parent - 16 Oct 2015, Rate: bad

what the!!! Does this school have more Asians or what? But I must say, they are smart. BUt seriously number 1 all the time. So jellyfish( jealous) hawwhaww

By Student - 21 Sep 2015, Rate: bad

Caecilius est in anustrium

By Alumnus - 20 Sep 2015, Rate: excellent

If you really wanted to be pushed to your limits this is the place to be. Best thing that ever happened to me.

By Student - 10 Jul 2015, Rate: excellent

i have gone to this school this year and let me just say that before i wasn't as intelligent as i was now.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

By Student - 10 Jul 2015, Rate: excellent

i have gone to this school this year and let me just say that i before i wasn't as intelligent as i was before.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

By Student - 20 May 2015, Rate: bad

WORST SCHOOL EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL U DO IS STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY. AND THEN COMES ALL THE DISGUSTING AGRICULTURE. THEY EXPECT U TO DO THINGS THAT COULD MAKE U LITERALLY VOMIT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU R A VEGETARIAN. DONT EVER THINK ABOUT GOING TO THIS SCHOOL

By Parent - 17 Mar 2015, Rate: excellent

K school

By Alumnus - 24 Oct 2014, Rate: bad

i went to dat $kool and it was the w0rse. its such bad skool, all wE did was agiculturalmalisism all day ery day. aLl they caer bout is duh selective and the skoolS reputitation. Duh coWs arents evn real cows, they just chickens painted black and whitEs, and the sheeps are potatoes in furr coats.
Would Recommed <3

By Alumnus - 24 Sep 2014, Rate: good

I find the hating on this school quite fascinating. To me, there's no better model of fairness than meritocracy (by definition, more or less), and no better model of meritocracy than our selective school system. It doesn't matter who your parents are, where you were born, who you know, how much money you have, what your religious beliefs are (if any), what language you speak at home or whether or not you throw a ball like a girl - if you pass a standardised test of mental aptitude, you're accepted and given the opportunity to be among peers who will likely push you to achieve more (academically) than you might have otherwise. Now think about that entire previous paragraph in the context of private schools, entry criteria and financial (as opposed to academic) success in later life. Why are we still hating on selective schools? Some deep-seated belief that exploiting your parents' hard-earned wealth and connections is fine, but your studying hard and exploiting your own personal attributes is not? I don't get it. I've got nothing against private schools; in fact I believe their existence is a good thing (their receipt of public funding, on the other hand, perhaps not so much) - but I just like to use them as a convenient and interesting contrast to gain perspective on our attitudes to selective schools.
There is one obvious potential downside from the selective school policy and that is that it robs the average student of some likelihood of being co-located with a relatively academically-inclined student. A valid whinge, therefore, might be that whatever associated costs accrue to the average student outweigh whatever associated benefits accrue to the selective high school student. That's a bloody hard argument to make either way, so I just don't know what all the fuss is about.
I'm white, by the way; but no more or less aussie than any of my fellow multilingual and multicultural alumni who no doubt would've been picked on, bullied, ridiculed and generally made to feel miserable 10 times over in any other school.

By Employee - 15 Sep 2014, Rate: poor

i compare this to hitler's systematic nazi ideology in which he implemented eugenics 'weeding out the weaker ones in the population', james ruse is a farce and we all know it, hogging the no. 1 rankings every year in hsc, what da hell???. well guess what there are better out there in the world who will make not only a difference but a better difference in the world out there.

By Parent - 15 Sep 2014, Rate: good

lol can't tell the difference amongst the asians in james ruse, word of praise and advice to ya all. you are very sweet,caring people. however stop being such airheads and sticking your heads in the clouds, and stop living in a bubble have some well informed knowledge of what's going on in the world around you. i met a girl from there who didn't even know about the persecution of the falun dafa people in her own country, such a shame. get real for once and stop having the biggest ego, you not on top of the world

By Student - 28 Jul 2014, Rate: excellent

verdy verdy guud scool. ii goo der n lern verdy guud engrsh. ii recomnd scol 2 eny1 venting 2 lern engrsh

By Parent - 06 Jul 2014, Rate: average

james ji

By Parent - 04 Jul 2014, Rate: average

It's in Melbourne

By Parent - 04 Jul 2014, Rate: average

Box Hill High School is better

By Parent - 01 Jul 2014, Rate: excellent

For the elites. This school is the balls.

By Alumnus - 06 Mar 2014, Rate: good

Only accepting genuises? tsktsk

By Parent - 28 Nov 2013, Rate: average

It doesn't matter what school where you go it the effort on the student put in. The more effort the students put in the better the outcome that it very true

By Parent - 21 Sep 2013, Rate: good

This school does not build a complete all-round student - the kids have no independence once they leave as they're spoon fed for HSC success - ie. to appease teacher remuneration. This is not enough when they reach UNI and the real world.

By Parent - 18 May 2013, Rate: excellent

Very good

By Parent - 02 Apr 2013, Rate: excellent

Let's play spot the white boy

By Parent - 01 Mar 2013, Rate: excellent

THE BEST

By Parent - 13 May 2012, Rate: bad

Bad School