Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College

don’t ever send your kids here they are a manipulative ride schiol who only care about grades and attempt to fix meta health but pastoral team will make fun and turn the issue into gossip. nothing is taken seriously and grades is the only worry. mental health issue are a huge problem in the school and little to non effort is put into it. aswell if it rains outside students are forced to sit outside in cold rainy weather and if not you sit in the stuffy dirty cateen. meat is always pink and food is inedible.
do not send your child here

I don’t recommend sending your children here unless they have a good mental and physical state!! My daughters mental health was amazing before she started this school, year 7 was fine, it was a beginning year for everyone but as soon as year 8 came, her mental and physical wellbeing declined massively. She was getting bullied and when she went and spoke up about it, they just said ‘suck it up’. They are really nosey aswell!!! My daughter came home one day and said they told pastoral something and they said to her ‘we wont tell anyone.’ She was placed in a room in there and the whole word got out, even some students hearing about it!! The overall education is bad but its not that good either! They teach you everything briefly but as soon as it comes to testing yourself, you will not remember a single thing as they talk too fast for you to understand!! My daughter said that she was trying to get to her locker before her text lesson and a teacher told her to go back her lesson WITHOUT her stuff that she needed for the class. The teacher so called, ‘walked’ her to her lesson and once she got in there, she was given a detention for not having the right equipment! If your looking for a school where your children will be treated miserly and not with decency, this is the school for you!!!

the school discriminate me for my special needs and say i belong in a special school daily. when i was having a meltdown they restrained me and threatened to expel me don't send your child to the school the SEND team is horrible. Pastoral are just mouthy cunts. don't recommend. send your child here if you hate them xxxx

Sandbach High School

Our experience with Sandbach High School has been genuinely appalling. The school is obsessed with attendance figures above all else, even when a child is struggling with clear, documented mental health and special educational needs. Rather than offering understanding or support, the school’s approach has been punitive, dismissive, and deeply damaging.

We have experienced gaslighting from senior leaders, who routinely downplay or deny what has been said or agreed. The Headteacher and Deputy Headteacher have not been honest or transparent, providing conflicting information on multiple occasions and failing to act in good faith when serious concerns were raised.

Instead of working with families to find solutions, they appear focused on protecting the school’s image and attendance statistics, regardless of the impact on the child. The lack of compassion, integrity, and accountability is shocking.

If you are a parent of a child with additional needs or anxiety around school, I would strongly advise you to look elsewhere. This is not a school that listens, adapts, or supports — it is one that blames and denies.

Awful, lying school. The teachers only care about higher grade students, if you dont reach their high standards your treated completely differently. This school disregards mental health issues and only do something when you start not following the rules. Rude head teacher which thinks its okay to tell a student off for calling their mum after the school lied and said they would. Theres bullying problems which do not get sorted and the school pretends to care and has "anti bullying ambassadors" which never do anything. Some teachers are quite pervy and make a lot of students feel uncomfortable.

Been bullied for a long time and the school arent doing amything. I have anger issues and anxiety diagnosed by the doctor and they needed my mum to confirm this as they thought i would make it up. The school building is falling apart, cracks in the walls everywhere and the toilets are awful.

I worked at Sandbach high school and sixth form college for over seven years, there was an appalling culture of bullying from senior members of staff, the more senior the worse they were, there was also a culture of backstabbing and nastiness from support staff. I understand there has been some changes at the top since my time there so can only hope things have improved, "massively".

The high school itself has a great education but zero support whatsoever for students. After developing mental health issues aswell as already having dyslexia teachers cut me no slack at all. The sixth form teachers do loosen up a bit but no support from the main faculty in regards to learning disabilities or mental health struggles

the learning overall was okay, however the staff was underwhelming and awful especially with the new head teacher. The lack of mental health awareness in the school is appalling especially after all that happened in 2017 with a close friend. If you want to send your child to a school do not send them to a single sex school as the atmosphere effected me and i will never forgive my parents for sending me here. The teachers are awful at ha doing bullying and once my friend was going through an awful time with a group of girls and he told her to ‘suck it up’