Ringwood School Academy

Ringwood school doesn’t deal with bullying. Broken promises and lies about dealing with it. Literally in the words of pupils the worst behaved kids do as they like. Teachers are too scared or can’t be bothered to deal with them. Teachers and heads will tell you everything you want to hear and completely fail to act on promises.

As a current student at this school I personally only have about a year left until I leave. I'm not upset, to say the least. The support is terrible for students. The school pretends to care when people are there to review them but they do not it's all for good shows. They use all their money on things that in my opinion are not the priority for example I think that mental health should be one of their first priories but it is clear it is not. The only time they focused on mental health was just after covid. The food is extremely overpriced and is not worth the money. The majority of the food is either too dry or too liquidated. The SEN support in this school is awful, they used to allow students to work in the hive if they were feeling stressed or overwhelmed however I and a few others have been told we are not now not allowed to. School is supposed to be or is advertised to be a safe environment however I do not feel this way about this school and dread coming into school every day and know many others feel this way too and as if we are all drained. I feel as though many of the teachers abuse their power and give out detentions for unessisary reasons. Their exam access arrangements have let me down multiple times. Although this is not all the teachers doing this it is most and there are only about 2 teachers I feel comfortable around the whole school as have been for a long time now. Another thing I would like to add is their toilet rules. They do not allow us to go to the toilet during lessons which can get especially irritating especially for girls if they are on their period and they tell us to be more organized and go at breaks however nobody can choose when they need to go to the toilet to convince other's. When we are told to go in our breaks, If we didn't need the toilet we are not going to go. We want to use our breaks to have a break not cue up to use the year group-specific open toilets. Overall in this school, I feel like Many others are unsupported and do not recommend it whatsoever.

Very impressed. Great opportunities. Shame students can't go into ringwood on their lunchtime anymore.

Lots of bullying, toxic teachers, won’t help your child get the grades that they are able to achieve. Teachers are moody, lazy and bitter. I wish my daughter went somewhere else maybe she’d be happier and have better grades.

Absolutely abhorrent school. Terrible teachers, pupils and all round disappointment. Bullying is rife as are drugs, smoking, vaping.

Bullies students. Doesn't care about bullying and ignores mental health issues. Ignores threats of sexual assault. Many teachers are pedophiles.

I’m still a student here. I’m also non-binary and use they/it pronouns. I’m disgusted by this schools lack of care for children who are part of the LGBTQIA+ Community, in the sense of “we can’t call you your preferred name as it’s against policy xyz”, i don’t think they are aware of how painful it is for students to hear their incorrect name being used. Not to even mention the sexism, racism, homophobia which is running rampant around the school. They say they are all inclusive, yet on their most recent survey set out to students, they only added a male and female gender selection box. It makes me sick and i am grateful my time at this school is almost over. All of this is without the overpriced school food, £1.20 for a slice of pizza, and £2.10 for a panini. I have no words. Ringwood school needs to sort their priorities out, in making this school a better place where students feel wanted. Because when students say to teachers “you have it better than us”, it’s the truth. It’s not the quality of teaching we get, it’s the other sides of school. I just wish the school wasn’t like this.

It’s a ok school for the area but there is a lot of sexism, racist and homophobic abuse. When telling the school they don’t go to the right measures to sort the problem. Even when COVID was going around, they proceeded to deal with it poorly having kids with covid mix with other students. Proceeding to tell parent's that they had it under control when they in fact didn’t.

Needs better food and more stuff to do at lunch and break

I think that Ringwood school is great! The learning support is amazing

The teachers are pretty much ALL amazing, and I like that the subjects are in separate blocks. However this schools is not known for dealing with bullying very well, which is disappointing.

I think this school is good, however the new head teacher has made it worse. It has turned to a prison with gates around and glass doors, the canteen is overpriced and the new uniform looks like everyone is in hand me downs, however the teaching is good. Also there are no bushes cuz of rats