| School Reviews |
| By Parent - 14 Nov 2021, Rate: excellent |
| The leadership team have shown that it takes a village to raise a child and I’m so glad it’s the Clovelly Village! My two children have had the most caring teachers that have shown them so much care and kindness. The community is incredibly positive and I’ve met lifelong friends through Clovelly P.S. My kids love to learn and I’m proud to send them to this school. |
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| By Parent - 26 Jun 2019, Rate: poor |
| Unless you can afford ongoing tutoring, please don’t send your child to this school. Teachers aren’t interested in your child unless you are wealthy, bullying is rife.. school is obsessed with teaching towards getting the best naplan results and less toward actual curriculum. Wish I’d pulled my children out before they got to high school as they are so far behind where they should be that I have no choice but to spend thousands a year on tutoring. School is full of wealthy, elitist, snobby parents who basically run the school. If your child’s being bullied by one of these parents kids you’ll have no chance of anything being done about it. |
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| By Parent - 16 Nov 2018, Rate: excellent |
So sad to hear all these negative comments. When my daughter started in 2000 it was a wonderful school, and people used to move house so they could get in the area to send their children to Clovelly.
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| By Parent - 10 Apr 2018, Rate: bad |
| This school demonstrates nothing but poor leadership, and a shocking education. This school doesn't even teach the kids basic NSW curriculum. Teachers are not committed, lazy, no motivation secondary to poor leadership.I had to teach my son the curriculum myself. The worst thing I ever did by my child was send him to this school. I am so glad I moved him to a better public primary school. Step up CPS you're letting your students down |
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| By Parent - 27 Mar 2018, Rate: poor |
| Terrible school with bad academic results. Too much politics and influential parent involvement which results in an elite group of students (not even the high achievers or the smart ones) to be promoted above others. The same elite kids get all the opportunities and are the "leaders" (what a joke!) of the school. The school fails in identifying the potential in every child and now they want to get rid of the high quality band program by getting rid of highly professional tutors who cannot afford to teach outside school hours. Utterly shocking. |
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| By Parent - 06 Mar 2018, Rate: poor |
This school let down my daughter and her education. She didn't learn anything at this school, spent the first 2 terms of high school catching up on what primary school should have taught her. Inconsistent teaching, poor performance in naplan, low academic achievement. Too much focus on sport and P&C activities that makes the school seem well rounded but in fact masks their poor academic opportunity.
I sent my 2nd daughter to a different public school and the difference is unbelievable. I wish I'd never sent my eldest daughter to this school and pulled her out earlier like the rest of my friends did. |
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| By Parent - 26 May 2017, Rate: good |
| I’m getting a little bit tired of reading reviews written by 'highly educated and highly paid' parents complaining about this lovely public school – perhaps your children are the disrespectful ones I see who are just waiting in the unpaid system to move onto private schools so they can brag about that as well. This is a happy, peaceful, productive public school from where I stand. It's true that it has had inconsistent leadership through staff changes but there are some wonderful and dedicated teachers at CPS who have to deal with a lot of change handed down to them with a seemingly ever changing curriculum. My child may have to work hard at high school to catch up but he'll be leaving his primary school as a well adjusted and happy individual with lots of life skills and great friends and memories thanks to the wonderfully encouraging teachers he's had a long the way. Perhaps some of you could get in to the school more and lend a hand rather than being arm chair critics. I've never come across a more privileged and arrogant attitude amongst parents and children as I have at CPS. Shame on you. If you're not happy, you can leave. The school would possibly benefit from less disgruntled families within it's community. |
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| By Parent - 17 Apr 2016, Rate: bad |
| Clovelly public school has been going downhill for last 10 years but it has now hit rock bottom. No leadership. Teachers who don't care and are constantly taking sick leave. My son had 20 teachers in one year. The school needs a new principle to clean up the teachers. Children are leaving in droves. Parents pulling them out and putting in early at private schools. Academic results are dreadful. This school 10 years ago was a school parents would fight to get kids into but now with consecutive bad principals the school is not even a 1 out of 10. Go to Bronte or Coogee if you want your child to read and write. |
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| By Parent - 16 Nov 2015, Rate: bad |
| Terrible academic results. The demographic has a lot of highly educated and paid parents. It should not be this way. The culture within the school is terrible. There is bullying, lazy teaching, and basic numeracy and literacy needs not being met. This school needs to get some strong leadership and sack at least half of it's staff. A terrible school. |
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| By Parent - 12 Oct 2015, Rate: poor |
| I have to agree with the above comments. My daughter failed in maths in year 6 at Clovelly Public, but achieved 79% in maths in her first year at high school. How do you account for such a discrepancy? The quality of the teaching is highly questionable and there is little to no leadership. There hasn't been a consistent principal for 7 years. They also lack any sort of an effective anti-bullying policy. The school in general also seems to focus on high achieving children while ignore the others. Social status ranks very high on the agenda, instead of quality teaching and ensuring their ethical duty of care to all children. One teacher even pushed the kids in her class and kicked one little girl who was then terrified to continue going to her class. When the principal (the temporary one at that time) was informed, she backed the teacher up and did absolutely nothing! Utterly shocking if you ask me!! I would definitely not recommend this school (although some of the teachers can be nice). |
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| By Parent - 11 Oct 2015, Rate: bad |
| I have to agree: no consistent leadership (principal) for over 7 years; no effective anti-bullying policies; some shocking teachers (one who was even pushing the kids and occasionally shoving some with her foot - which the principal did nothing about!); an elitist social status culture within the school with little genuine passion from the teachers for effective/progressive education that caters to the learning styles/abilities of the children. And...one more thing...the kids toilets are always putrid. Not good! |
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| By Student - 05 Sep 2015, Rate: bad |
Bad teachers at the school all they done was babysit us Man. Italian is a joke. What a shock when I got to high school! You think you are coming first at Clovelly, but come last at high school You come last! The last 2 principles were a disgrace! Yeah teachers do your job and teach them other things then Italian and music! Fail fail fail!
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| By Student - 02 Sep 2015, Rate: bad |
| Italian is a joke! I'm failing in all my tests at high school! Don't send your kid their unless you want them to not make the HSC |
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| By Parent - 20 Aug 2015, Rate: bad |
| This school is a joke, the kids learn nothing and consistently start bottom of the year at high school, they cram for naplan to make state average in year 5 and do nothing after that. 5 kindy classes turns into 1 or 2 year 6 classes because f such minimum standards set. Full of smiles and telling the kids they are doing well but when they get to high school and cannot read or write or do their tables or simple addition and subtraction without anybody noticing is a huge problem. Teachers do your job and teach them the basics not a heap of unnecessary stuff |
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