Allerton High School

A terrible school with so many bullying teachers. They made my 5 years there hell and i couldn't wait to leave to do my A levels somewhere else.

I would advise you to look for any other school. They literally ruined the education experience for me. A terrible school where you are taught to obey without thinking. No pupil has a voice

A terrible school where the students have no voice and all the teacher care about is ofsted and attendance percentages. They literally ruined the education process for me, so glad to be gone

The school pretends to care and will say what they need on the open evening but it is a terrible school. It is all about tests nothing more. The welfare of the children seen to be ignored with one boy ending his life after being expelled.

This school is horrific. We have tests every half term for every subject? It’s a really stupid system and i feel unprepared for my GCSE’s. Quite a few male teachers make me feel very uncomfortable. Teachers give out codes for no reason. Im a very good student and i never misbehave but somehow i still get codes. The uniform rules are so stupid. we have to have all buttons done up and a tie on and it feels like your being strangled because the collars on the school shirts are tiny. Also why do shops that sell school shirts always make them large and square, see through and with a really tight collar? Last year in physics and biology my class would mess about a lot and my book is just partially done sheets, so all of the learning was left to me. I despise so many teachers as they like having power over a class and constantly abuse it. I really hate this school, and parents please dont even consider sending your child here. The students are bad the food is bad and over priced and the teachers are absolutely awful at teaching and making us feel safe. Ahs is supposedly the best school in Leeds, but we are told to act good when school examiners come in. I hate this school with my whole heart

My experience of the school has been terrible. It is all about ofsted nothing else. The place feels victorian and the students welfare is secondary.

better than an American school but the food is overpriced and causes diseases. such as, ligma which has devastating effects on young minds.

It's mediocre AT BEST, the teachers are mostly horrible you'd be lucky to find a few kind ones like mr Clark and Miss Norman. Wouldn't recommend

Worst School in Leeds. Teachers are bad at the job and chose to pick on students who are behind in any work. The behaviour system is all messed up full of naughty year7-8s and the school has a really bad system where one late means you have to stay 20 minutes after school so if your late 2 mins to each lesson you would have to stay 1hr 40 mins for 10 minutes of late overall. The school is known to be one of the best but from any student point of view the school is horrible and drains students each and everyday. The teachers are very bad at their jobs and only a very very small percentage is even doing the bare minimum of teaching. Loads of students each day stay home and arrive badly late just for less time in the depressing unfair school. At least 98% of students will say how bad it is and how it drains people everyday causing depression, anxiety and even suicide (one happened very recently and social media managed to expose the headteacher for helping to cause this 12 year olds tragic suicide.)

A poor education it is all about ofsted and getting results. The lower set children are forgotten and homework never marked. A child can do well all year long and make a few mistakes on an exam that is all that is counted. Many teacher are very unpleasant to the children. There was sadly a suicide in year 7 this year

The school doesn’t deal well with bullying. The prices of the food keeps going up yet the bad quality is the same.

While the school has an outstanding reputation for getting the grades its whole emphasis is on exams. My son joined in Sept and it has been test after test with very little time for teaching. He has been given a list of things to learn for a math exam, nothing of which he learned in primary school or his six weeks at Allteron. I have had to teach him the maths for the test and then two whole lessons were used to do the test and then mark the test with the teaching explaining how to do each question. Surely some of the questions need a whole lesson to explain the method. He has been at the school 5 weeks and has had about 8 tests with more coming. I want him to do well at exams but leave school with a rounded education. I know school can't teach everything so my plan is to cover stuff not covered in the curriculum but at the moment our free time is learning stuff for the next exam. I am regretting getting a place in this much sought after school. Actually Cognitive Abilities Tests coming up next term now as well.

The teachers are quite encouraging towards helping the students but sometimes they just ignore the students that are trying to engage but the teacher doesn't like them. The inside grounds are well set out and easy to navigate but the outside is filled with litter and I know it's not the school's fault but they should make a change to the system so the students are encouraged to put their rubbish in the bin instead of dropping it and leaving it. I am currently in year 8 and enjoying my time at school but some of the students are disrespectful to teachers and this is a problem that they need to fix.

Might be the best in Leeds but the head makes dim rules and doesn't allow the students to express themselves at all and the dress code is very sexist. Girls can't show their ankles because it may distract any males in the building? Excuse me but what. And why aren't we allowed to have a certain haircut? Or paint our nails? Is white nail polish going to suddenly distract us all from learning? No. And it's the same in regards to skirts. Nothing above the knee. Why? Ah that's right, the male staff might get uncomfortable because they can see our thighs. The boys will *** **** *** because a girl is showing a bit of thigh. THE LENGTH OF A SKIRT DOES NOT AFFECT LEARNING. Thank you for your time

The teachers are constant bullies, and they totally disregard your feelings. They don't try and stop any bullying, they sit down and try and force you to be friends. They push autistic kids under the carpet and out of sight and just class them as behavioural kids. They just want to keep the school as the top in Leeds and nothing will change their minds.