Christleton High School

If you want a school that actually cares about your child’s well-being, listens to parents, and respects your family’s values, look somewhere else. The leadership and management at Christleton are a total letdown, and dealing with them is an absolute nightmare.
There is a really toxic culture with some of the staff here. Instead of staying neutral and letting kids have their own opinions, certain teachers love to go on massive power trips. They push their own personal agendas in the classroom, and if your kid doesn't smile and nod along with whatever the teacher thinks, they get targeted, tracked, and slapped with unfair behavior points. It feels like they create their own little police state where children are walking on eggshells around adults who are supposed to be mentors.
The double standards are a joke. If a student raises a legitimate issue, asks a question, or stands up for themselves, the staff completely close ranks. Instead of defusing the situation professionally, they lose their tempers and start using aggressive, heavy-handed tactics to bully the student into submission. They will twist the facts, hand out knee-jerk punishments, and use intimidation to silence anyone who challenges them.
Yet, when there are massive, genuine safety issues happening right under their noses, they couldn't care less. There is a serious problem with illegal substances circulating around this school, which I personally reported directly to them. Instead of taking it seriously and taking immediate action to protect the pupils, they brushed it aside and were not interested in the slightest. They would rather sweep actual criminal behavior and pupil-on-pupil bullying under the rug just to protect their own league table reputation, while spending all their energy micro-managing and targeting the wrong kids.
When you try to call them out on it as a parent, you don’t get a proper, respectful conversation—you get treated like the enemy. You are met with defensive attitude, slammed phones, shifting goalposts, and back-alley rules that they seem to make up on the spot. They operate on gaslighting and secrecy, and they are more interested in covering up their own staff’s massive overreactions than actually helping a child who is struggling or feeling unsafe. They will literally manipulate records and use sneaky, informal discipline methods just to avoid any external accountability or paperwork.
It is incredibly exhausting and stressful dealing with an institution that acts more like a hostile courtroom than a place of education. They are completely out of touch. Save yourself the stress and avoid this place if you don't want your kid being singled out, stressed out, and pushed around by arrogant staff who think they are completely above the law.

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this school is awful. whatever you do do not send your child here. i was a pupil at the school and had to move to a different school becuase i was getting severly bullied (getting screamed at in corridors, having objects thrown at me ect.) and the school knew about it and yet did absolutely nothing to solve it. only one of my bullies got any form of punishment besides not aloud being outside for break (the child who got this punishment has multiple police cases for bullying and i have 4 bullies and only one got light punishment) and the worse it got the school didn’t do anything to help. i asked to not be sat near my bullies in any lessons and they did not listen to me which resulted in me getting comments made towards me in lesson and getting laughed at and i had to walk out of lessons crying most days and when i went to the safe gaurding team for help whilst crying i got told to “get over it” and “go back to lesson” and then i was the one who got punished for walking out and they ignored the circumstances. this school only care about your academics and thats great if you are already smart but if you are not and you need that extra bit of help like i did they do not give it to you and it got to a point where i didn’t understand anything so i couldnt do the work and then when i would put my hand up for help some teachers would ignore me because they didnt think i would understand it anyway. i also had a teacher who made rude comments towards me such as “you look like you dont want to be here anymore” (in the sense that i look like i domt want to be alive) , “i know you and **** have serious issues” (whilst looking down at my friends legs that had self h@rm scars on them) and these are only a few of the incidents that i experienced and i know i was not the most well behaved student but that is not an excuse for their behaviour at all and in no one school should anyone be treated like this.

Teacher's who bully children and parents. They throw children out of 6th form to make way for independent school children so selection takes place. This happened to our family and caused us a lot of pain. There was no help or advice for the students. I would not recommend this school.

Best secondary school in Chester, sixth form is looking pretty epic as well. Staff really make the place worth going to