In their words
Which schools suit what your child loves?
Search for a sport, instrument, subject or worry to see which Brisbane schools people mention it at, and what they said. Tick up to three schools to compare them.
1 school where people talk about the school overall (with your filters).
Showing one school only. See every school where people talk about the school overall
How we work these numbers out
- Order. “Best match” puts schools where your exact word comes up first. “Most talked about” uses the share of reviews that mention it. Neither is a ranking of how good a school is.
- Comes up in X% of reviews is the share of the school's reviews that mention your search. The Brisbane average is the same share across all Brisbane schools.
- Speak well, mixed or raise concerns is worked out by software, using only the sentences about your search. It's right most of the time but not always, so read what people said.
- What students did comes from the sports and activities former students ticked in their review. We show it when at least 3 answered.
- Evidence is strong when 5 or more of at least 10 reviews mention it, some when 2 or more people do, and thin when only one person does.
- Facts such as fees, ATAR and enrolments come from each school's own documents. Fees cover different year levels at different schools, so compare carefully.
- Open Day Reflections come from our visits to 2026 open days. They're useful, but they reflect the school's own voice.
Rochedale State High School
Co-ed · State · Rochedale
- Fees No tuition fees (state school)
- Students 1,498
Some evidence3 people mention it. Worth reading what they said.
Comes up in 100% of 3 reviews · about the Brisbane average (100%)
This school 100% Brisbane 100%
Of 9 comments: 4 speak well of it · 1 mixed · 2 raise concerns
Review Would you recommend it?
I would, there was a good culture within the school (very few fights, generally good student body). The school provided a lot of opportunities to extend yourself if you wanted to, lots of committees and programs and events to participate in.
5 more from Rochedale State High School
Review What had the biggest impact
The arts program was fantastic, and run by extremely passionate teachers. There were some poor teachers there - at one point I was sexually harassed by a teacher who the school knew was creepy to students and it ended up becoming a legal matter. He was let go after it escalated legally, though. Other teachers were openly racist or homophobic. Generally, a culture of permissiveness towards whatever teachers did, even if it was objectively harmful.
Review Would you recommend it?
I would not recommend because they do not offer all the senior subjects that other larger schools with more students who are interested in academia would have like engineering or literature. They have little academic support for senior students only having sessions once a week for tutorials in which also get crowded closer to exam Weekes with only one teacher to share. However they do offer guidance counselling and career counselling to all senior students in order to make sure that they can maximise their studies. Yet I don’t think it is significant enough to be a reason to choose the school in particular.
Review What had the biggest impact
personally there was no programs or teachers who are currently at the school now that stood out to me. There was one teacher that I did have for chemistry who was very supportive and understanding although not being the class with the most well-behaved students she would always put her best interest towards the students first and would do her best to help. However, this teacher has now moved to a different school and is no longer a staff member at the school hence there are no specific teachers who stood out and there weren’t too many opportunities that the other teachers and council were able to offer to the students. To find opportunities the students had to go out of their way and research and bring these topics and possible opportunities up to the guidance officer in order to get their attention and to gain support over specific opportunities that they wanted to take on.
Review School culture
Fairly strict, which I don't think is a bad thing, kids need structure in order to work at their best. Individual teachers could be more or less strict, so rules were somewhat unevenly applied, but that'll be an issue at any school. Different year levels had distinctly different cultures - my year had so many students who wanted leadership positions that they invented new roles, the year below couldn't get enough people to fill even the original roles.
Review School culture
The school was not academically strict however was very picky when it came to school uniform and attire. Personally I did not enjoy this part as I didn’t believe that the school uniform policy should determine whether a student can or cannot be at school and not really heavily influence their academic outcomes. This did eventually play a role when students were not able to attend classes because of their additional piercings or nail polish which I did not think was a reasonable excuse to remove students in grade 11 and 12 from the learning environments in order to punish them.
3 more review mentions. A free account opens them, and you don't need a card.
Create free accountSign in
Reviews come from parents and former students whose link to the school we've checked. Open Day Reflections come from our recordings at 2026 open days. Words in [brackets] were unclear, and […] marks a skipped part. They reflect the school's own voice, so read them alongside the reviews. How reviews work