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Rivington and Blackrod High School

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2.3

Based on 27 reviews and 231 answers

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  • Staff2.3
  • Communication2.1
  • Activities2.1
  • Safety2.0
  • Food2.0
  • Education1.8
  • Indoor environment1.8
  • Outdoor environment1.8
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  • Parent
    1.0
    22 April 2026

    Vile school

    Terrible school. I don’t think i’ve seen a school worse. My daughter ever since her first day at this school has had to many issues regarding stuff like bullying, and school has never done anything about it. They disregard the children’s mental health and care about the small things such as uniform and jewellery just to make themselves look good rather than caring about how the children are coping. There has been so many times where she would come home crying because of racism and the school sa...

  • Parent
    1.0
    6 January 2026

    AWFUL SCHOOL DONT BRING YOUR CHILDREN HERE

    This school is a disgrace my daughter and her friends got in trouble for supposedly cheering on a fight and used a fight video to their own advantage while putting the girl who recorded in isolation or whatever I find this school ridiculous.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    25 August 2025

    Appalling school

    For anyone thats thinking of sending their children to this school, DONT. This school is a place that allows bullying to happen if your child is someone who is quiet. They take no notice if you're someone who is quiet. My experience with this school was hellish. They only care when its students who are popular. If you are someone who is quiet they will take no notice to your problems. I suffered with alot of mental health problems due to this school which caused me to miss alot of it. A drama te...

  • Former Student
    1.0
    24 August 2025

    Only send ur kids if they are smart or bad.

    I was bullied for year and the teachers do nothing about it at all because the 'bad' students are their favourites. " Mental health matters till the students can't go into school". My friend was off for medical reasons and the school refused to send work to her in the hospital and same with me for a month on end when I was off. They only care for smart students and bad students. If ur not one of them it is more like ur in a mind field by ur self. I saw a sup push a kid into a wall. I have autism which was ignored. I was publicly made fun off by my science teacher for having a melt down and mocked for a month by a girl who saw my melt down.

  • Student
    1.0
    11 January 2024

    DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE!

    this school is horrible. i'm a student here at Rivington and Blackrod High school and i would not send your child here. first of all the bullying in the school is out of control. i get bullied and name called with dirty looks. and it feels horrible. bullying affects most people in this school. the teachers don't do anything about it all they do is tell those people to stop and move on. these students do not stop and continue affecting other pupils mental health. secondly there is a one way sy...

  • Student
    1.0
    11 January 2024

    don't go to this school

    if your thinking of going to this school DON'T

  • Student
    1.0
    4 November 2023

    Do not send ur kids here

    This school is horrible they have grown men checking girls skirts which is disgusting.they do not care about there children either and make mental health worse.it doesn’t even deserve 1 star do not sent ur kids here at all. They make anger issues worse by putting them on report instead of helping.isolation for small things like hair colour and nails.how is that going to distract people from learning also the bullying is absolutely appalling.DO NOT SEND UR KIDS HERE!!!

  • Parent
    1.0
    4 October 2023

    Horrible

    Absolutely horrible school lots of bullying going on and no teachers botherd! Not had a phone call back after pulling my child out because if on going bulling that's getting worse and nothing being done about it

  • Student
    1.0
    6 May 2023

    Worst school

    Wanted to give it no stars but couldn’t . Worst school you could ever go to

  • Former Student
    1.0
    25 April 2023

    DO NOT GO HERE

    if you're thinking of going to this school don't

  • Other
    1.0
    29 March 2023

    Bullying

    I would just like to say that my stepgrandson has been attacked by an Asian pupil today.Whilst this and many schools have an enormous task on their hands, behaviour of this sort is just unacceptable and should receive the severioused form of punishment and I hope that those responsible will be dealt with accordingly.

  • Student
    2.0
    13 December 2022

    Teachers are horrid

    Im in year 9 in rivington and blackrod and my views on it is basically just bad. The rules are stupid. We get an after school for rolling our socks down in summer when we are absolutely boiling. Im a girl and i was on uniform report for a whole month by my form tutor who picks on me and non of the other teachers are doing anything about it.Teachers dont do shit about bullying, sexism, racist etc. The classrooms and ways of teaching is boring, i dont get barely any work done since i fall asleep m...

  • Student
    4.0
    7 December 2022

    love Mr Leslie

    It's alright. Mr Leslie is the best.

  • Student
    1.0
    31 August 2022

    Honestly hate it

    School don't care about any problems you have, one teacher told me not to be friends with one person because he said an "offensive joke" also one person in particular would just body shame me,kick me, punch me and just be annoying every lesson and school did nothing about it

  • SR
    Other
    1.0
    11 July 2022

    School

    Would not want to send my children gone down hill would have no stars if it would have let me

  • Student
    1.0
    2 May 2022

    Horrible mate

    The teachers are horrible and some are pedos too so it’s not very good there’s this one annoying teacher and won’t shut up she told us how she poured water down someone’s ear which was not very nice and she’s a horrible person too. The only time I would want to go to that school was to beat some sense into the teachers

  • NN
    Student
    1.0
    9 April 2022

    This school is not very helpful, lots of bullies

    Let me just say this, this school is a horrible place and not very helpful for learning at all Firstly, the teachers blame the students in assemblies for the school doing worse than other schools also, the school does its best to look good to others, going so far as to tell the prefects to lie about certain things to people on open evening like how the one way system has ‘always been here’ it has not actually and it was brought in around covid. The school also acts like the one way system is something good when in reality it is just problematic as they also have a ‘round in 5’ (minutes) rule. The school is very big and following the one way system includes going up 2 flights of outside stairs and all the way around the school and then back down again, the teachers should not be mad if we don’t get around in 5 minutes.. not to mention it’s a dumb system because they can’t even enforce it properly. Students regularly manage to rebel against the one way system and to be honest I support them in that and have done it myself on the regular. why? Because the one way system is not even good, it just makes it harder to get around Don’t even get me started on the bullies here. Since day one I’ve been bullied at this school, my accent was mocked, and the popular kids liked to make fun of me regularly, and have the teachers done anything about it? Barely. The bullies get a light (metaphorical) slap on the wrist and then they get to go on their way and continue treating anyone who isn’t a popular kid like they’re below them. Because of this my art class is unbearable since the popular kids all sit on one table and like to pick on the people on my table, aka throwing glue and food across the room at us, constantly bothering us and saying inappropriate gross things, they like to just repeat my name for no reason, and they make fun of my friend for meowing in year 7 when she was literally 11 and it’s none of their business and if that made her happy then good for her they’re just miserable bullies that don’t understand that just because people are different doesn’t mean you can bully them. Then there’s getting called racist for any retaliation against the bullies. This is non stop and happens almost every time, not to mention a few years back when people found out about my arachnophobia they started making fun of me for it and talking about spiders when I’m nearby, trying to get me to look at spider pictures on the computer, throwing pictures of spiders at me, I still hear them mentioning spiders when they’re near me to this day. I’ve also had transphobes come up to me and start saying very gross and inappropriate things that was none of their business at all My friends have pretty much all have experiences of being bullied also as this is not a rare experience in the school and is in fact very common. The school does not appear to know how to handle the bullying problem and in result, if you’re not a popular kid, you get bullied. Sounds like some sort of tv trope I know, but in my experience it’s true. the students at rbhs also seem to have very little tolerance for people with mental disabilities and we will often be the target of bullying because of it. apologies for the long rant but there’s more to come, the outside area is actually atrocious. There is trash and food thrown on the floor everywhere and literally massive flocks of seagulls that come and bother everyone. don’t get me started on the tables in the school, they all have so much gum under them and it’s gross, and people also throw glue around in classes sometimes

  • Student
    1.0
    7 April 2022

    I suggest you DO NOT send your child here.

    Let me say this, I know you should never trust anything on the Internet. However, I am saying this from a personal point of view and with all due respect. I am putting this review here in order to express the reasons on why you do not want to send your child to this school. First of all, My personal experiences. I stress waking up in the morning in order to go to school here because of the amount of bullying that happens here. The head of safe guarding for Year 10 and 11 does not do anything at...

  • Student
    2.0
    1 April 2021

    I don’t like it, plain and simple

    The school has caused me to have severe panic attacks and breakdowns due to so many aspects which I can’t even begin to talk about. Teachers are pretty hit or miss, they’re are some fantastic teachers however many couldn’t care less about their students. The top set is the only priority and the only class any teachers really care about. Some slt treat us like we aren’t people and look down upon everyone

  • Student
    3.0
    27 January 2021

    Meh school

    Some of the teacher are alright, but some of them have stated that they’re only in it for the money in the end it’s a meh school and I probably learnt more out of school than inside school

  • Student
    3.0
    27 January 2021

    Kewl or not to kewl that is the question

    Some teachers kewl some not very kewl

  • Student
    2.0
    19 December 2020

    Unsatisfactory

    There are some okay aspects however it’s damaged my mental health such an expidential amount that I get panic attacks about having to go

  • Student
    1.0
    5 December 2020

    a shocking school, and a strong message

    ngl its pretty bad they prioritize christmas lights over mental health support ?

  • Student
    4.0
    1 December 2020

    Pretty sick

    Pretty dope actually, some teachers are chill some suck The place around it is really nice, big area But there’s a seagull problem

  • Student
    4.0
    24 October 2020

    School review

    Great teachers, overall fantastic school ?

  • Former Student
    2.0
    23 September 2020

    My honest opinion

    Could do a lot better as it is a horrible school. It needs work. (I have bad English. XD)

  • Other
    4.0
    16 September 2020

    Postive

    Alright school could use a little work but in total brilliant school