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Tanbridge House School

SecondaryHorsham
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2.8

Based on 24 reviews and 195 answers

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  • Food3.0
  • Outdoor environment2.9
  • Activities2.9
  • Education2.7
  • Indoor environment2.7
  • Safety2.6
  • Communication2.5
  • Staff2.4
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  • Former Student
    2.0
    6 October 2025

    A patronising environment

    This school is overly strict and you feel super undermined by all teachers. They do not want to treat you like equals. They care more about uniform standards than the mental health. Students cannot go to the toilet during lesson, or get water too. An extremely patronising environment that I would not recommend for your child.

  • Former Student
    5.0
    7 September 2025

    Only if you’re social

    The staff are actually qualified, yeah some are a tad bit harsh but overall teach well. Lessons are always unique and the students are also mostly good. The support team is on top though, as someone who had 1001 mental issues during my time here, theyre very accommodating and informational, as well as good at providing a safe space

  • Former Student
    1.0
    25 July 2025

    Don’t go to this hell hole

    This school is literal hell my old form tutor would SCREAM in my face because I didn’t have my top button done up even tho he knows that I have sensory issues, the school dose not care about your mental health and just make it worse. Even if you walk out crying or walk away from a teacher balling your eyes out they will give you an hour afterschool and say you were truancing! They fourite kids aswell and lie to your parents. It got so bad I was refusing to go to school because ever day gets wors...

  • Student
    1.0
    3 September 2024

    Run, don't go here

    It is as if Satan himself created a school. It will suck you dry of any hope for your future, no one cares about you. Do not go to this school, run, run far away.

  • Student
    3.0
    9 November 2023

    I don't like this school

    Teachers couldn't care less about what happens. Sure, they get annoyed about people misbehaving in class, but they don't care about students' experiences in school. A lot of people like me get bullied or attacked for seemingly no reason and the teachers don't do anything about it. They even locked the toilets because of some students' misbehaviour which is very unfair to the students who haven't done anything wrong as they seem to believe "punish everyone because of a small group of people's act...

  • Other
    4.0
    18 August 2023

    Why you should go

    Good the community is nice

  • Student
    1.0
    14 July 2023

    Literal hell

    This school is so crap. They don’t care about your mental health. They make it worse. And even if you’re crying ur eyes out they make u go back to lesson.

  • Other
    5.0
    23 June 2023

    Real :)

    I skinned one of your teachers alive

  • Former Student
    1.0
    22 February 2023

    Absolute shit

    I went to this school in the past and everyone their is cruel, everyone fights- there is so much vaping- and the teachers couldn't care less. The teachers are unexperienced and generally just horrible and a bad infuence. DON'T GO HERE!!!

  • Student
    2.0
    24 September 2022

    Discriminates non-smartphone owners

    The school has introduced a system where students scan QR codes to sign in to clubs. While we can ask teachers to sign us in, they ask us what mobile phone we have and why we can't scan the code, trying to look at the phone. This makes students with no phones or more basic phones feel left out. Lessons also encourage us to use social media - the opposite of what should be taught.

  • Student
    2.0
    6 May 2022

    Hypocritical

    Lessons at this school are taught very well, but this is the only good point. Students are taken out of class and spoken to if they do not have their top buttons done up, but when a boy fell over while playing football, the teachers continued talking and came to him after a few minutes. The school also encourages students under 13 to use social media despite giving lessons on on-line safety.

  • Student
    2.0
    6 May 2022

    Hypocritical

    Lessons at this school are taught very well, but this is the only good point. Students are taken out of class and spoken to if they do not have their top buttons done up, but when a boy fell over while playing football, the teachers continued talking and came to him after a few minutes. The school also encourages students under 13 to use social media despite giving lessons on on-line safety.

  • Student
    2.0
    7 April 2022

    Wrong priorities

    The school's slogan is 'Care, Kindness & Achievement' but the only one of these that exists is achievement. The teachers believe uniform and grades matter more than bullying. They are also hypocrites - they tell students that blue and pink 'are not boy and girl colours' yet paint the very dirty toilets this way. In addition, they give many assemblies about wellbeing but do nothing to help it.

  • Student
    1.0
    17 February 2022

    no just no

    this place is a place no one should even want to go to i bet all other students wake up and think 'time to go to hell' that's the first thought the days go by to slowly and personally you should just run while you have the chance so do not enter the school just run away as far as possible and never come back cause this school will drain you mentally and physically and they do not have a single care in the world on our mental health. good luck surviving you might not make it through year 7 though

  • Former Student
    2.0
    9 October 2021

    Mediocre, and unnecessarily draconian

    A particular incident always springs to mind when I think of my time at this establishment. For somewhere claiming to be oh-so socially concious, they sure did drag several trans men into an assembly about skirt lengths intended for female students, wherein a male staff member prattled on about it being "unfair" for male staff to have to not stare at underage girls at their job. If you wore trousers? Had transitioned to become male? Didn't matter, you still had to sit through this. Also, in ag...

  • Student
    3.0
    5 October 2021

    Meh alright ig

    Painful ? stacks of homework and the male teachers used to drop things to look under skirts so I don’t rlly feel comfy with them.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    18 April 2021

    gambling but all the outcomes are bad

    Eh, To start the toilets can be classed as biological weapons, some guy pissed in a sink once and that's just one example, most people did everything in their power not to use them. Your subject excellence really depends on the teacher, one year I was so far behind I felt I could have learnt more from the amount of stuff written on our desks than class, the next year I changed teacher and was back on target again. I don't think the teachers realised that putting anti bullying posters have the same effect as washing the dishes except there are no dishes and you're just eating a shoe box instead because they do nothing about bullying and god forbid anything mental health. Overall, going to this school is like doing a line and rolling a dice to decide your fate, either you get lucky with some good teachers and students or you experience mind numbingly boring hell, either way it'll be bad. Side note, didn't meet a single person who said they enjoyed English.

  • Student
    2.0
    2 February 2021

    It may seem nice from the outside but...

    Although the school seems well-prepared and students leave with overall good qualifications, your experience differs too much depending on the staff you have to deal with and how much you learn. A lot of the male teachers are much too aggressive and over react to the simplest of situations, this is the worst with male students. The toilets there rarely ever have toilet paper or soap in them and the sanitary bins are always over flowing, and it is hard to find a toilet that actually flushes....

  • Employee
    1.0
    18 January 2021

    They don’t care about bullying

    As long as your don’t have anything wrong with you your fine

  • Former Student
    1.0
    4 December 2020

    fine if you're normal I guess

    Doesnt treat mental health or bullying appropriately at all. Homophobia was treated as something we should just get used to for me and my friends, as was bullying.

  • Student
    5.0
    2 November 2020

    Ok school

    It’s a good school but the toilets are awful and so are some of the teachers and students

  • Former Student
    4.0
    30 October 2020

    Good school

    It’s a good school but their are some teachers you will not get along with

  • Former Student
    1.0
    5 September 2020

    Run. Now.

    Run away. Run now. This place will suck your soul from your body and throw you out as a shell of a human doomed to face this ugly world for the rest of your meaningless life.

  • Student
    5.0
    2 September 2020

    Tanbridge house school review

    It’s amazing and going into year 11