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St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy

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2.5

Based on 12 reviews and 96 answers

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Average of 11 reviews with area ratings

  • Communication1.9
  • Staff1.8
  • Safety1.8
  • Food1.7
  • Activities1.7
  • Education1.5
  • Outdoor environment1.5
  • Indoor environment1.3
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  • Other
    1.0
    5 July 2025

    Worse management

    Worst school i went as supply they really need to work on there managment side. The school didnt inform my agency prior to 7am in te morning that i wont be needing there today. Instead they waited for me to arrive waited there for 50 minutes and thn i was told that i am not needed today. Beside that the teachers seems racists i went there as a PE cover and the teacher looked at me like i was wearing something which i shouldnt have. Worse management and worse staff i have ever worked with.

  • Student
    1.0
    14 March 2025

    Mum of the god

    Should give them minus 100 This school can't coop with complaints from outside where boy 16y meeting girls from other school y7 (both 12) sending rude messages to parents... sending straight to the police...we'll done fck Christians

  • Parent
    1.0
    23 May 2024

    Awful ... don't uphold the anti bullying policy correctly

    Absolute appalling school ... don't follow their own anti bullying policy and then when concerned parents ring up the school they feed them what they want to hear but don't follow anything through. My child has only been here for 8 months and his mental health has taken a massive hit from being at this school, currently looking into moving him to where he will feel safer

  • Student
    2.0
    30 January 2024

    Coming from a year 9 girl Krystal wood

    This school makes people cry they didn't let me get food at break most teachers R nice if u don't get on there bad side aha new head teacher pushed me and my mate out a door teachers R constantly shouting the doors always cold I love the activitys they do so people can build there confidence up I do not recommend coming here it's horrible I cry every night because of this school there is constant fights , swearing, most teachers not understanding the kids i got put in reflect for not having a pe kit im sorry my mum cant afford - year 9 Krystal wood

  • Former Student
    1.0
    7 June 2023

    This Place Was My Vietnam

    I finished my compulsory education here in 2011. Virtually nothing was done about bullying either for me or my peers. I'm now 28 and I don't think the psychological wounds I sustained in this concrete gulag will ever heal. I have no self-confidence, can't form relationships, and have been put off from ever having children of my own through the torture I went through. I was initially described as "gifted", but through the years of anti-intellectualism and being laughed at when I got the answers...

  • Student
    1.0
    9 February 2023

    stupid school

    school is so bad so much people are racist but they dont care pls dont go

  • Student
    1.0
    8 February 2023

    the worst school in west yorkshire

    WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE! Every single teacher in the school are bullies or pedophiles! if you want your child to be told they are failures every single day then this school is perfect for you. teachers claim that they prevent bullying yet they bully the children themself. Students can misbehave and attend one lesson out of 5 and be told they are amazing but if you so much as spell a word wrong you’re failing your GCSES and working at mcdonald’s. The rules don’t even make sense and half the time teachers don’t even know what day it is. The school tell you to be yourself but when you wear lashes/nails/tan ect you end up in isolation doesn’t make much sense. The pastoral team do NOTHING to help you infact they make things 10x worse. most teachers have no qualifications and are setting you up for failure if you want your child to absolutely hate themselves and have awful mental health this is the school for you

  • Other
    1.0
    19 January 2023

    horrible school

    the school doesn't care about peoples learning and all they care about is putting people in iso all day because they have eyelashes on and having fake tan and nails and for wearing trainers or not having a tie or a planner.

  • Student
    1.0
    14 October 2022

    L school overall clapped

    L school kinda i started just over a month ago got bullied and overall weird school fights everyday already got in one and i got jumped at my house after a month ago.

  • Other
    1.0
    3 July 2022

    Bad school

    This is such a shi arse school the teachers don't care if your being bullied and the students will all come after your slightly different so I don't recommend coming to this school or sending your child to this really really bad school and people who say this school is bad is telling the truth and even though they are starting to become even more stricter students ratchet behaviours still won't change, so I tink making this school even more stricter will just make the students behaviours even worse and don't even get me started on the teachers all of them suck arse and only a few are actually decent

  • Former Student
    1.0
    25 February 2021

    TERRIBLE.

    Terrible. So much racism and islamaphobia and teacher hear and do nothing. Teachers also often make microaggressions with no repercussions. Bullying is never dealt with as teacher don’t care. Teacher blame students for not understanding the subject even when they haven’t taught it correctly or a whole class fails. Seriously bad for mental health, if you don’t leave with mental health issues it'd be a miracle.

  • Other
    5.0
    20 August 2020

    Not much to complain about.

    Good school. Good teachers. Just not that many facilities and interesting stuff to do. But overall still good.