Allerton High School

It is the worst choice my parents have ever made. Do not go. If is like living hell. I recommend Diffrent schools for example: Allerton grange, gsal, carr manor. I would 100% move to ally grange. Do not go to allterton high in warning you

Having read through the previous reviews I wanted to write about our experience of the school as parents. Our child didn't settle into Allerton well, they found the lessons boring with a very victorian approach to teaching & relentless tests. Our child became disengaged which led to low level bad behaviour which was handled with an almost sledgehammer approach, heavy use of detentions & isolation rather than support & encouraging good behaviour. As other reviewers have said the school cares about Ofsted, exam results & league tables not the children . Our child who had previously been doing well at primary school became completely uninterested in their education & was eventually excluded before the GCSE's ensuring that poor performance didn't go on the schools record. As parents we found the school difficult to deal with, although there were some very good members of staff ,the school leadership & behaviour staff were not straight forward to deal with & rather than trying to build a positive relationship with us where we could perhaps have worked together to turn the situation around they alienated us with their lack of honesty. Allerton was such a negative experience for both us & our child that it has put us off the school system completely.

It a big school but not that god

This is school is terrible. The education is not good at all they don’t teach the children properly. It messes up young kids future in life and makes them have a horrible experience in high school. The staff members will pick on you and bully you non stop . They will put you in a place called bridge which is a small place in school where the students will be locked in a room and you will be not in your lessons or be around school like how you would be normally. When you first go they say you will only be in there for 2 weeks but ends up being 1and half year and or 2 and half year. This ruins the children’s education and has a really bad impact on the students grades at the end of year 11 (GCSE).In the bridge its full of distractions the teachers say there will be lessons but it’s full of distractions and not good working environment for children to learn the staff a picking on the children’s and then they say why are the students reacting like this after the staff picking on you and bullying you all day. The working environment is not good at all for students, it’s full of distractions and disruption. The school food is not good at all. I have been experienced myself by given an out of date juice bottle and also the prices of the food goes up quite a lot after a bit. The teachers are always picking on students and bullying them all day to the point where they are so fed up they don’t want to be at school. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT TO SEND ANY OF YOUR CHILDREN TO THIS SCHOOL. THIS SCHOOL WILL MAKE YOUR CHILDREN HAVE A REALLY DIFFICULT HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE AND WILL NOT GET A GOOD EDUCATION. DO NOT GO TO ALLERTON HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!

My experience is one of shock and horror with how they treat the students. The behaviour system is out of date, they are obsessed with tests and some of the teachers are terrible

A school that puts ousted before children, their education, their welfare

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.

A terrible school with bullying teachers who make everyday hell. Too many rules, Substitutes teachers all the time.

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

As an ex teacher from Allerton High school all they care about is ofsted and the facade of good GCSE and A level results. They pretend to care about the children and boast how they treat everyone as an individual but they apply a blanket approach to all of them. As a teacher you accept the rules and method or leave. I left

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.

A truly horrible school that puts discipline before education. The squeeze the joy out of learning and many of the teachers are vindictive and unpleasant. I thankfully managed to get my son out of their

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

I personally feel very concerned about this school and it’s ofsted report is such a lie my cousin went there and left immediately after the irresponsible staff and bullying social anxiety and much more it is one of the worst schools in the country do not send your child there

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

An awful school that treats children like a cog in a machine. All about testing and getting a good ofsted report. Homework isn't marked and the behaviour team is used tp punish and not resolve. There was also sadly a suicide in year 7 this year. I am attempting to find my son a new school

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.