# North Cestrian School — Altrincham, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.0/5 from 10 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Dunham Road
- **Phone:** +44 1619281856
- **Website:** https://www.northcestrian.co.uk/start.html
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/altrincham/north-cestrian-school-17580

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Mar 2019
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Mar 2019

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Crap school: Bad school (20 characters) *(Sep 2025)*
- **1/5** — Avoid at all costs!!: Do not go here!! The teaching quality is horrendous and the art teacher specifically is a homophobe, i can't imagine why it's still available in my area. The maths teachers set mass ammounts of work for the pupils, including tasks outside of homework, which take valuable time the pupils need to relax, and actually take care of their mental health, which the quality of the counselling in absolutely atrocious, my son had one counselling session before he asked to see an actual therapist due to how… *(Jun 2025)*
- **1/5** — bad teachers: Miss alibi is completley useless im better pissin into the wind then getting taught by this absoulute weapon - *(Jan 2025)*
- **1/5** — Horrible place: Food gave my daughter food poisioning! Kids in school bullied her until the point she wanted to die! Teachers make up stupid and unhealthy rules, children can no longer drink in some classes! They refuse to let anyone go to the toilet because lunch is in 50 minutes! Even if the childs on their period. There are a few teachers we love, but many have given my child anxiety! *(Oct 2024)*
- **1/5** — Racism: A girl in my year was so racist that she said the n word about 5 times then she proceeds to say she is mixed race when she is not. Also the amount of pressure they put on pupils in this school is absolutely unacceptable. This school is one of the worst do not send your child here. *(Jul 2024)*
- **1/5** — Disgraceful.: God awful, freind of mine got sexually harassed by a pupil in my class and the school knew and did nothing about it. It's completely disgraceful. Not to mention the fact that teachers are abusive and absolutely awful at teaching. *(Apr 2024)*
- **1/5** — North cestrian: I am a parent of a student at this school and to be honest it is the least proffesional school i have ever seen they give detentions for the most petty things such as not having a pen all the teachers are rude and abuse there power to hand out behavior points. There is lots of bullying in the school and the teachers do not do much about it. I hope this review will encourage you to not send your children here. *(Jan 2024)*
- **1/5** — Sen terrible!: The head teacher wasn’t even aware my son had an EHC plan. When I was concerned about his mental health he responded (having been told 3 times he’s under CAHMs) ‘he needs to be under CAHMs we are a school not a mental hospital!’ Wow! Avoid! *(Oct 2023)*
- **1/5** — Sen support non existent. Took money but no supper.: I can’t even give a one star! A head teacher that says ‘your needs an EHC plan’, when he actually had one, should tell you all. After telling him my son was again severely depressed, and had to tell him 3 times he was already under CAHMs I was told ‘well he needs to see CAHMs, we are a school not a mental hospital’ My child had an EHC plan that the school were awarded a substantial extra amount of money to provide services. The services included, grief counselling, speech and language and extra … *(Oct 2023)*
- **2/5** — The school is awful and avoid if you can: The school is awful, teachers are rude and unpleasant, and the headteacher is a massive hypocrite with some of the school rules *(Aug 2022)*

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