Southend High School for Girls

Not too bad, but expected more

Ok, if you get things done on your own

Very average school, with teachers being not much empathic. Goal seems to be getting a higher national ranking of the school not guiding students to success. If you just want to work with students, who know everything and make no mistakes: your jobs are redundant. Most of the teachers are not able to work with people, not able to work with children.

if you want to learn lots then i guess you might like it, but if you would rather socialise this is not the school because the teachers put so much pressure on you to do well and revise 24/7 so you never get time with your friends. i think if you want a good high school experience then this is not the place to go but if you want the grades then it is. it does get quite tiring when you have all this constant pressure on you for 5 years straight, but i guess some people want that so they do well.

Went here from year 7 through 11 - all I can say is if you struggle with mental health don't go here, just stay away. The school is great at keeping the facade of being caring with all their bs assemblies and pastoral support but really they just press you for academic achievement so they look good for incoming students. There's also been issues with racism and inequality from staff and students so unless you're white and middle class then oh well I guess. Also I would like to point out that if you aren't among the smartest in the year or smartest in a subject then you're basically given up on, they say you're getting equal support but you're really not. Lower sets get the worst teachers, something which is just really counterintuitive. I miss friends that still go there but honestly I'm glad I left.