# NCEA Duke's Secondary School — Ashington, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.6/5 from 16 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Academy Road
- **Phone:** 1959316447
- **Website:** http://www.ncea.org.uk/
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/ashington/ncea-dukes-secondary-school-11835

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Jun 2023
- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Jun 2023
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Requires Improvement — Jun 2023
- **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Jun 2023
- **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Requires Improvement — Jun 2023

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Don't send your kids to dukes: My sister was getting badly bullied and they did nothing about it because it was too short of a time period as it went on for 2 days so and apparently they have a bullying policy which is non existent.Also the receptionist wouldn't deliver my brother's Chromebook until after school as they didn't have the time and teachers aren't allowed to go to the reception to drop of stuff. *(Nov 2024)*
- **1/5** — Terrible school do not send your child there: Terrible school has serious bullying issues school only cares about trying to make itself look good. A child ended there own life due to bullying and the school denies this and lies says it was not. They do not care about students mental health only care about attendance of the student even after circumstances of students being assaulted by groups of other students. Education is very poor too the students learn nothing and come out with poor grades majority of them. Look up there ofsted reports … *(Feb 2024)*
- **3/5** — Its meh: Former student. The school itself isnt perfect and needs improvement with the way its run but as far as teachers go, there is only one teacher that ive ever had an issue with. Its a shame that the really good teachers seem to leave all the time. The kids tend to treat each other and the staff like shit and nothings really done about it. The school needs a better behaviour system, most kids actually aim to get into LRC because they all think its mint in there. The system is broken and punishment … *(Nov 2023)*
- **1/5** — Don’t go here: The school is disgraceful. Teachers are unsupportive. More concerned about getting good words from sending us away to university then caring about what actually makes us happy. I wanted to do art and I was pushed out of it from this school because it wouldn’t look good for them. Teachers are bullies. Getting told continuously you are going to fail when you are in the top of class. They are disgusting. They claim to be supportive but are nothing of the sort. My experience in this school has made … *(Nov 2022)*
- **5/5** — School: The staff are excellent and engaging with the children and easy to talk to, EVEN THE PRINCIPAL! They don't let bullying go unhandled and very good system for misbehaving students it makes learning peaceful and comfortable for other students. *(Sep 2022)*
- **1/5** — terrible school: its terrible, its moto is to stop bullying but there is loads of bulling happening in the school but the teachers couldn't give two flying pigs about it. was currently blamed of bullying a group of girls which did not happen i was sticking up for a friend that was recently threatened with having there head caved in but was giving all the blame and other girls allowed to leave scot free.was sitting with other girls which are friends then giving the blame of sitting close to the girls to get a rea… *(May 2022)*
- **1/5** — school causes self harm: i have been a student of this school for a while,was bullied for months and didnt get. any attention or help but was told it would stop.would cry to the teachers telling them of my issues and would be told something would happen nothing did happen.i was bullied that bad i turned to self harm. teachers noticed this and only once my parents found out didn't anything change.parents came into school and teachers claimed they didn't know anything about it . was not giving any support and the school c… *(May 2022)*
- **1/5** — terrible school who couldng give two fucks about their students: its terrible, its moto is to stop bullying but there is loads of bulling happening in the school but the teachers couldn't give two flying pigs about it. was currently blamed of bullying a group of girls which did not happen i was sticking up for a friend that was recently threatened with having there head caved in but was giving all the blame and other girls allowed to leave scot free.was sitting with other girls which are friends then giving the blame of sitting close to the girls to get a rea… *(May 2022)*
- **1/5** — vile school environment: Dont take bulyig seriously and give people wrong for being a supportive friend, also just tell clear lies *(May 2022)*
- **4/5** — current student: only gets that rating because a few teachers are amazing :) *(Apr 2022)*

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