Compass School Southwark

The school is really cheap

i dont find the school supportive as my mental health is always drained as teachers belittle me and make me look down on myself. This is also reoccurring to the fact that the schools head staff system are extremely racist and profile me as a student and make me look as a bad person. Because of this I have not gotten the gcse results i would have like just because of the colour of my skin. so i would advice you not to make your child come here

I can say after having a child at this school it is one of the worst school in the bought my child has experience racism from the teachers and when she tried to complain they don't want to know she can't even get to eat lunch

i hate this school with a passion, they do nothing for there crew of uneducated and disadvantaged pupils, most turn to drugs and smoking instead of focusing. new building is trash, teachers leave because of how bad pay is. temp in school is 50 degrees minimum. kids don’t learn. went to school in 2020 and wanted to end my life everyday i came in. behaviour policy trash

As a former student, i can say that this school completely ruing my mental health to the point where i considered suicide, i ended up leaving in the middle of year 9 and moved due to this, the students there are horrible and so are the teachers. Most of the teachers pick favourites, a girl in my class used to get kicked out every science lesson for doing absolutely nothing. All i can ask is that you do NOT send your children here

I had no satisfaction learning anything in school, some kids were learning area of a circle in Y10 for the FIRST time. They only had a few good teachers that would leave after 1 year. They academics were awful awarding the bad kids instead of the good. The whole school was built off the lie they would get a new building they said 2020 5 years ago now they’re saying next year and god knows (environment is awful and too small for hundreds of kids) SAFEGUARDING is awful, I had autism and used to bunk lessons because of stress and anxiety despite being one of the smartest in my year and on track for an 8 in subjects. They LET me walk around the school unaccompanied and then broke the law by asking my mum to come pick me up. No activities to do at lunch time it’s either library or outside, you can’t watch the other boys play football you have to be involved or go back round (teachers say this) To be fair we had some OK teachers but we also had bad ones so to make it a fair review I will give a 4 because I got on with a good amount of the teachers. They couldn’t handle bullying, they made certain bullies anti-bullying ambassadors. I have autism and do not know what they mean by school information however I would assume it’s how they provide information to you as a student which was very poor and did not prepare you for future life or even regarding events. I’m an SEN child or was a SEN student there and I can promise you they do NOT care about Special Needs, the Head of SEN doesn’t understand Autism she confessed it to my mum (No EQUAL RIGHTS). Food was disgusting I went the whole day without food up until dinner bc I didn’t have time to have breakfast. Only sports at lunch are table tennis and football, girls and boys don’t do the same sports in PE (PE and Computing GCSE are currently mandatory or were when I was there) The school had no culture and no identity. Code of Conduct is HORRIFIC they broke at least 2 laws when I was there, changing official documents on my EHCP to show they were “meeting” my needs and asked mum to take me home when I would bunk bc of stress. Challenging is an unfair one for me to rank I wasn’t challenged at ALL by the school all the work was easy but keep in mind I’m a student with a high IQ so I’m not sure so I would do 2 stars. I didn’t develop as a person not positively at least, they made me develop clinical depression and drove me to the verge of sanity. I’m very sorry for the long review however thanks for reading this far, I tried to make this as unbiased as possible however keep in mind I’m now 16 with clinical depression I was an SEN child, and I was there from Y7 to Y10 and I eventually contemplated suicide as I felt people like me had no place in life. Please bear this in mind while making a decision on sending your child here parents, I would do everything in my power to make sure other kids have a bright future and don’t turn out like me. I’m in a new SEN school now getting around 7s and doing good. Thank you for reading and have a Merry Christmas as it’s the 25th tomorrow