# Pilton Community College — Barnstaple, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 2.0/5 from 21 published reviews
- **Principal:** Mr Graham Hill

## Contact

- **Address:** Chaddiford Lane, Barnstaple, EX31 1RB
- **Phone:** 01271 374381
- **Website:** http://www.piltoncollege.org.uk
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/barnstaple/pilton-community-college-12510

## About

We are a successful 11-16 mixed comprehensive school whose student-centred philosophy demonstrates our commitment to enabling every student to achieve their potential by fostering a culture where students believe that success is for all.

## Official rankings

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

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Pilton: Mrs fishleigh is a useless teacher who helps no one but girls she likes favouritism at its finest mr hudspith is a useless fat teacher who is a homophobe hates his students Locks his students in his classes to chase students around the school dr Bowden is a useless person who suxks to teach anyone shouts at you for asking questions cries in the middles of classes and locks herself in her cupboard for the rest of class mr Philips lets students walk around school whilst staring at images of girls … *(Aug 2025)*
- **1/5** — Go to park: Firstly, this school doesn't let you unleash your skibidi potential and forces you to jelq. Sigma students are forced to suppress their knowledge, creativity and rizz. It's not very cool or fannum tax and they force you to edge. Also there is mold in the lockers, the building itself is falling apart and the B.O levels are intense. I don't know whether I want them to use their budget to fix/replace their rubbish equipment or to issue deodorant to certain students and breath mints to certain teach… *(Oct 2024)*
- **1/5** — Please Read.: "Share your experience at the school" Okay. I despise this school. I truly do not like it. I'm not going to get into this story too much because it's not really the place to write it but I will give a short overview. Long story very short, I was SA'd by another student who was in my classes and tutor in one of the school bathrooms. The day it happened was the worst day of my life. I couldn't tell anyone, I mean, how can you tell someone about that? I then had to spend two whole years sitting in … *(Jun 2023)*
- **1/5** — Sad and depressed: Its bad they make us freeze to death and make us take are coat of when teachers are literally wearing a coat they dont care about are wellbeing just want us to be happy it feels like school is effecting are mental health more if you ask any other student it would be the same *(Nov 2022)*
- **5/5** — An Outstanding School: Pilton Community College has been an outstanding school for my child. The staff are supportive, and the facilities are excellent. I also appreciate the emphasis on values such as resilience, trust, and kindness that are instilled in the students. *(Sep 2022)*
- **1/5** — My genuine thoughts: Oh god, where do I even start... First off, this school couldn't care less about the mental health of students. The year 10s have received no help during their mocks, there has been nothing done to tackle bullying, homophobia, transphobia or ableism and a giant portion of the students have struggled with depression and anxiety as a result. Second of all, the school is run like a sweatshop. Students aren't allowed to go to the toilet (which is detrimental to afab students), the food is low qualit… *(Aug 2022)*
- **2/5** — An overview of year 7 and 8: It's an alright school I'm only just now going into year 9 but I have made friends but I understand that's not relevant to the schools. Lunch. The food is alright for me as I only ever buy ham sandwiches made by another company but the sittings... year 7 first one week then year 8 first the next week is ridiculous because you get kicked out of your tutor room halfway through lunch so by the time you're done on average you can sit in tutor for 3 minutes. The people that go here are also horrid. T… *(Aug 2022)*
- **3/5** — PILTON REVIEW: decent school, however no bullying is ever dealt with. most problems are never resolved and the amount of fights that happen are insane, however decent school.. but the workload is intense and threaten with iso for white socks and 2 day iso if you dont hand over your phone and break and lunch *(Jul 2022)*
- **2/5** — Ignoring bullying and lgbt+ discrimination: Have dealt with bullying, homophobia and transphobia and all this school does is toot their own horn about how they're an "amazing school." It's so bad It's UNREAL. *(May 2022)*
- **3/5** — Pilton: I went to this school a little while ago and have a bit to say about it. The learning support bit was brilliant, I absolutely loved it and it was very accommodating for my disabilities, my tutor and group were amazing, and a lot of the teachers and teaching assistants were so kind and helpful. However, I had a lot of bullying issues, that never properly got resolved. When I was in year 7, I was harassed by a group of boys and told “boys will be boys”, I was mocked and treated terribly by other s… *(May 2022)*

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