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2.6

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  • Student
    1.0
    10 October 2025

    Do not come to this school if you want to go for a good uni

    The teachers here are really nice and are very supportive with our studies but the problem lies with headteacher. He is absolutely abysmal and only cares about high grades and not about our wellbeing. He expects us to study 24/7 yet will drone on and on about a healthy work life balance in a boring assembly. Least of all he doesn’t even realise the girls toilets in sixth form are broken and ignores bullying yet will advocate for anti-bullying.

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  • Parent
    1.0
    16 May 2024

    Disgusting school

    Darrick wood is a terrible school and condones bullying, and wrongly punishes the vulnerable. They advocate abusive behavior towards girls and as such bullying is never dealt with properly and parents are not informed and they explicitly damage a child's mental health, shattering confidence through their lack of care, ethics, and disguising correspondence and use of degrading language, if you're lucky enough to get any. They favour the super bright and fail to support those mainstream students t...

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  • Parent
    1.0
    3 July 2023

    Find another school for your child

    Very disappointed this school always had a good reputation but that's going now, its surprising how much damage a new Headteacher can do to bring this once outstanding school down to good and will probably go down again in the next inspection unless there is a new Headteacher soon as the one in place at the moment is unapproachable and rude and does not seem to care about his pupils or parents.

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  • Parent
    1.0
    1 July 2023

    VERY DISAPPOINTED

    We moved to DW catchment area as it was an outstanding school, my oldest child went there and it was outstanding and got great results and lots of support half way into my middle child being there the Headteacher changed, I thought the school would still be outstanding as the new Headteacher was already working but how wrong I was. The new Headteacher brought the school down to good, I was not surprised as he is arrogant, unsupportive and rude So my young child will not be got there

  • Other
    1.0
    1 July 2023

    Uncaring school

    In over 20 years working in Education I've never worked in a school that does not care for there pupils, this was a first it starts with the Head Teacher across the school with the exception of a couple of Teacher.

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  • Student
    1.0
    30 June 2023

    Uncaring head teacher

    As a year 11 leaver, my head of year was one of the best however my time at Darrick Wood wasn't good as having ADHD there was little support only had one nice teacher that understood me and really cared but she was pushed out when I was in year 10 so I had no support in year 11, head teacher don't care about pupils unless your gonna get good exam results wouldn't recommend to anyone

  • Parent
    1.0
    30 June 2023

    Awful school

    Please don't send your child to this awful school no duty of care from the head teacher down

  • Parent
    1.0
    21 June 2023

    DONT SEND YOUR CHILD TO THIS SCHOOL

    Please DON'T send your children to this school it was a good school once but not any more, the head teacher needs to go there is NO duty of care he only interested in pupils that will get high grades

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  • Other
    1.0
    20 June 2023

    Awful school don't go there

    Awful school no duty of care and does not deal with bullying, head is rude and unapproachable. A lot better schools in Bromley

  • Other
    1.0
    16 September 2022

    enjoy

    i hated that school so much. All the teachers believe that they can scream and shout at you for literally forgetting a ruler. the lanyard system is so stupid. i was once told by the headteacher that by me forgetting my lanyard i was putting everyone else in danger and that its my fault. i was in yr9 i was literally 13 bro what-. no freedom for yr11 anymore. they used to be able to leave school for lunch but for my year group they canceled it

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