Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls

It has been a nightmare of a school from the beginning to the end. The only reason my daughter put up with it is because of the whole catchment area fiasco and yes my daughter wanted to proudly wear the badge of having studied at a Grammar school. But jeez, it was an actual horrid experience from bullying by teachers, bring ridiculed and belittled due to religious beliefs and down to the accent spoken with. My daughter received her GCSE results and won't you believe it; the subject which she got the lowest grade in is the teacher ahe gor bullied by. No surprise.
The school does not teach well; the kids are bright and intelligent naturally or they get additional support externally from the school. The school is an extremely toxic environment that does not manifest a healthy balanced outlook or approach, and does not consider the wellbeing of their pupils. Mental health is seriously concerning; not just being sad and low which with hormones and general life difficulties exist - I'm talking about the more complex mental health. Its probable that high achieving children may have such psychological problems but it is quite severe at this school whereby things were heard and witnessed by my daighter which affected her. She had no one she could speak to though.
Forget the pupils bad behaviour the teachers bad behaviours were swept under the carpet time and again.
The educational standard is no thanks to the teachers - the girls are clever and are self taught in majority of cases.

Writing this report with my friends genuinly and the school was a masterpeice when we were shown but when you are actually a student at this school all secrets unfold. The bathrooms are dust poo everywhere toilets dont flush doors dont lock properly teach students like crap and detentions for almost everything so much pressure to do well and teachers pick favs and ignore you for the rest of the year. If you are the fav I reccomend the school but you are a minority by race or religion I reccomend another school DONT FALL INTO THEIR TRAP.

Definitely do not recommend this school, for a place so heavily focused on making students achieve high grades, you would think some useful help would be given to balance a healthy wellbeing as well, but no. Nothing like that happens here - there are mini posters put up in corridors on how the school "does not allow homophobia or racism" or anything like that, yet the teachers themselves are homophobic, racist, misogynistic, transphobic, etc. You cannot BREATHE in this school if you are a minority, or if your mental health seems to be declining.