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Northgate High School

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2.4

Based on 19 reviews and 159 answers

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  • Activities2.9
  • Outdoor environment2.8
  • Staff2.7
  • Indoor environment2.6
  • Communication2.5
  • Food2.4
  • Education2.3
  • Safety2.2
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  • Parent
    1.0
    27 April 2026

    School

    My son just started in year seven and has been told he can’t get a small design in his hair. And consistent detentions. The teachers shout and make them clean classrooms after school hours. In my opinion don’t send your child to such a poor school!

  • Other
    1.0
    26 April 2026

    Possibly the worst school in the entire universe

    This school is absolutely brilliant if you want to be homeless when you're older. All the teachers are so sexist and bias towards the girls and most of them won't like you unless you are good at their subject. They will NOT help you with your work at all. If i am being generous I would rate the school meals a -1/10 because there is a pretty solid chance you will throw up after eating it and it isn't crazy to say that it's almost worse than Indian Street food. I made a horrible decision joining t...

  • Student
    1.0
    27 April 2025

    Bullying not dealt with

    - Great Education & facilities- especially the sports area! - Subs that can’t function a computer/don’t know what they're doing - Frequent bullying and fights - kids v@ping in school & doing dru@s. - Teachers being biased towards some students and mistreating others. - Racism & bullying -> coming from both students & sometimes teachers - Inappropriate touching from students & sometimes teachers - Many restrictions & rules for girls -> not many for boys at all -> school even made a random rule...

  • Student
    1.0
    13 December 2024

    The Staff Target!!

    In my opinion to the school I think that the staff are bad because my friend got court playing with their self and did not even get a minus point, no detention, nothing but I scream quite loud in the morning and get a 45 minute detention just for screaming and I think people will agree with me that the teachers here and staff just target people and "Bully" them. For example my friend had done low amount of work and the teacher tells me off because I'm "Too slow" and my friend does not get told off a bit. other than that the food is Great. but not worth going to the school because it takes just one thing then the whole staff team is against you!

  • Parent
    1.0
    4 December 2024

    ABSOLUTE HELL HOLE

    DO NOT send your children to this school. SEND Support Plan in place for my child is ignored. No support given as he is not academic enough for them. They punish rather then support, they have no interest in under achievers at all. Absolutely shocking school for those who need extra support.

  • Employee
    1.0
    15 May 2023

    WE WANT OUR HOODIES

    Where’s our hoodies then x

  • Student
    1.0
    30 March 2023

    Many, MANY more problems, than I have listed

    At northgate, it is a struggle to survive in the toilet, since there are raving mobbs of lunatics, with apparently superhuman strength, who break doors off their hinges tear the, securely screwed and taped, soaps off the once sturdy walls, before emptying them, inconveniently, down the drain, along with all kinds of litter and packets of contraband food that they are not supposed to eat, and ate in the toilet to not get told off, and, pull the "toilet roll", or whatever stuff that is with the consistency of a butterfly wing, off the side of the plastic cubicle, so that no one can ever go to the toilet, because they can't close the non existent door with an almost undoubtedly broken lock anyway, and they can't even wipe, because the toilet paper is impossible to use, and is shoved down the toilet, and blocks it, and causes the toilet to overflow after about a million people trying to flush the toilet, which might explain how urine manages to creep up to the ceiling, until the janitors decide to clean the toilets, but not very thoroughly. And, when the janitors do clean the toilets, they lock the toilet door, I don't know why they would do this unless they are defending us from some toilet monster taking revenge on the students for vandalism, so I have to use another toilet, but I can't, because the head teacher decided that about 500 year 8 and 9 students can use 3 broken cubicles and a few urinals blocked with a million types of food packets, at lunch time, not that there is much food, given that everyone eats it within about 2 minutes of the 30 minute break, which mostly gets spent queuing, especially when it gets to "Christmas lunch", where the last 2 times I had nothing to eat, and ate the dust, instead, which was more nutritious by far. There are also multiple fields, that are rather large, and have perfectly kept and trimmed grass, however these fields are never used, not even for breakables when everyone is mushed up in the breaktime area, as if it's a washing machine, where we are only allowed to go in the best of weather conditions, and if there is the tiniest bit of precipitation, panic! Bing, bong, bung, "Mrs Mackie speaking, . . . I will leave you a little bit of time to finnish what your doing and listen . . . I'm afraid it is a wet break..." the head teacher installed speakers all around the school, so she gets to pester you about everything all the time, no matter where you are. It is quite intreasting that the head teacher doesn't mind the constant war, air raids, machine gunners, and all the military tactics of the super technicologically advanced, seagulls. I think that, secretly, they have a mission to make life as miserable as possible for northgate students, because otherwise the aim bot on their firing and the tenacity with which they steal your food is completely out of place and unexplainable. Also, in a normal school, the teachers discipline and teach the students, however, at northgate, the students run rampant and get given hundreds of detentions without ever going to any of them.

  • Student
    1.0
    30 March 2023

    English Essay about NORTHGATE!!!!

    Firstly, I would like to request an option for 0 stars as that is how I would rate it. The "food", if you can call it that, which they serve at lunch time is just flavourless plastic slop which has been 3d printed and then microwaved to provide the perfect consistency of COWPAT which is frozen in some parts and scalding in others. The seating arrangements are sub-standard by comparison to PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS in Russia and we have to put up with tables which slide half way across the lunch hall...

  • Student
    2.0
    30 March 2023

    BAD STUDENTS

    good school but the students keep circling around a picture of me when i sat on moss and the beach AND IT LOOKS LIKE EXCRETION I SWEAR I DID NOT DOOKIE MY PANTS STOP

  • Student
    1.0
    30 March 2023

    Worst meals eva

    THE FOOD SUCKS AR$E. They do the WORST thursday meals ever (roast dinner but its AWEFUL ITS SO DRY THE GRAVY IS WATERY AND THE MEAT IS SO DRY. worst thing is portion sizes, they give the little babies (yr 7s) like a mountain of food and the yr11s like 1/8 of a chicken breast. Every thursday is pain, its thursday today :sob: but overall all the meals are tiny

  • Other
    1.0
    28 March 2023

    bad bad

    shit school so much corruption. awful curriculum. horribke staff. meals are disgusting and portions are tiny. don’t sell drinks or anything

  • Student
    2.0
    17 October 2022

    my honest review on what i thought was a good school..

    Obviously as a student im going to be negatively biased, but the school is really no where near as good as they say it is. teachers act amazing when the first meet you at open evening and then often loose interest in helping you. the mental health support is terrible.. they wont do anything to help unless you have some sort of proof that you need help, for example S.H or therepy. the staff at the top of tbe school are openly biassed to students who make fusses ablut LGBTQ and will listen to them...

  • Student
    1.0
    30 September 2022

    Worst school in the world

    Sexual harrasment this school is very bad I hate it

  • Student
    4.0
    26 September 2022

    Northgate Review

    It was good, teachers are nice but sometimes the pastoral team isn’t amazing :) However, teachers are nice, lessons are good and you do feel cared for.

  • Other
    1.0
    7 April 2021

    Be warned

    Too corrupt at the top. Not as good as they say it is

  • Other
    1.0
    4 April 2021

    You've been warned

    School is the worst in Ipswich despite peoples outside opinion if only it was as good as they say. The Running of this school needs looking at as too much corruption.

  • Student
    5.0
    16 December 2020

    Excellent School

    Excellent teachers, excellent facilities

  • Former Student
    2.0
    2 December 2020

    Northgate high school

    I wouldn’t recommend this school, if your are struggling and you have low grades they don’t give you extra help, Instead they put u in a class with all the naughty students. If you have any problems they don’t do much to help they are pretty pointless.

  • Student
    4.0
    21 November 2020

    Northgate is a good choice

    I loved this school, there is a diverse range of teachers and a lot of them enjoy cracking a joke here and there and getting involved, it has good facilities and a lot of open space with fresh air, teachers have good methods for revising and classwork and you don’t get a massive amount of homework, only this is outside the school is a lot of litter and rubbish from students which attracts a lot of seagulls and ruins the environmental look