# Marston Vale Middle School — Bedford, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.2/5 from 24 published reviews
- **Principal:** Mr Jeremy Heath

## Contact

- **Address:** The Crescent, Stewartby, Bedfordshire
- **Phone:** 01234 768224
- **Website:** https://www.marstonvalemiddle.co.uk
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedford/marston-vale-middle-school-19838

## About

A very warm welcome to Marston Vale Middle School where our core values of being Ready, Respectful, and Responsible are at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to provide an outstanding curriculum and learning experience for all pupils which inspires and empowers them to achieve their best.

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Jun 2022
- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Requires Improvement — Jun 2022
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Requires Improvement — Jun 2022
- **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Jun 2022
- **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Requires Improvement — Jun 2022

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Awful school.: Awful school. Do not care for children's safety or well being or mental health. The school are constantly stating they are high on safe guarding but allowed videos and photos to be taken of students in a school concert (I know some children performing did not have consent for Thier photos to be taken) The schools answer to this was "we told the parents not to post it online". Bullying is awful, the school do not sort it out and instead make up excuses to not have to deal with it, even though chi… *(Dec 2025)*
- **1/5** — My DAUGHTER came crying: Today my daughter came crying home because it was hot outside and while she was in lesson ( she was concentrating on the lesson) she decided to make a paper fan in the lesson ( she worked hard on it also it was her birthday at that day) then miss Smith came in and crumbled it up in her eyes. And she tried not crying in class . And my daughter said this what happened. *(May 2025)*
- **1/5** — If you care about your child, do not send them to this school: This school is honestly the worst school I’ve ever seen I absolutely hate it here and it’s not a good environment. The teachers don’t care about your mental and physical health and they don’t do anything about bullying. The girls bathroom don’t have a door and any person could see inside the toilets . Also the teachers don’t respect your privacy. They walk in while you’re getting changed for PE and they walk in while you are going to the toilet . This school is covered by inappropriate drawings … *(Mar 2025)*
- **1/5** — Would not do it again: Man this school was hell. There were three main problems the school never sorted: 1. Rude and Racist students The students here were vile. Racism was never sorted out, even if it was blatant. One time a student in my class was praised for having racist views. Wanna know what they were? "We should ban the hijab because it promotes suicide bombers." c. April 2022. The kid went on to get a merit for it... Substitute teachers were never respected, not even full time teachers either. Teachers left th… *(Sep 2024)*
- **1/5** — Don't send your kids here.: If you're thinking about sending your child here, don't. The teachers do not care for their students (most don't anyway from when I used to go.) They only care about your uniform and if you send your homework in on time. If you're neurodivergent, they don't offer any help at all, even if you cannot go to your lesson. They send you there anyway, despite having the "linc" which is meant to help students but when I was having a panic attack they just stared blankly and went "okay." Then left. All o… *(Apr 2024)*
- **1/5** — Smelly Milk: Boys Toilets R Manky and smell like expired milk. the linc doesnt welcome you the SLT are shi* and are very rude I get warnings for laughing like what the macaroni *(Mar 2024)*
- **1/5** — Honestly worse school: Honestly if you care about your child don’t send them here. The girls bathrooms have cameras and no door,no mirror and is absolutely filthy then there’s there rude subs that think they know better than everyone else and gives out w2’s like it nothing they school isn’t understanding and if the teachers tell you “you can talk to me I won’t email anything” there’s a 90% chance they will email your form/head of year the education system is exhausting and the whole school needs an upgrade in general *(Oct 2023)*
- **1/5** — THIS IS HELL: This school is absolutely shit.there is no door on the girls toilets and teachers just stand there watching all the girls but they don't watch the boys toilets.its so bad I can't even describe it! The teachers don't give a shit about ur feelings or emotions and the teachers that do make it a really big deal and take u out of lessons to have a 5 minute talk about ur feelings. They even make us clean up the other classes mess on the playground and we either use a litter picker or we r made to use … *(Aug 2023)*
- **1/5** — Screw Marston vale middle school: This school is a giant prison!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *(Jul 2023)*
- **1/5** — ????????: Absolutely hate the school words can’t describe how sh**t this skl is honestly the teachers r awful and only care abt their paycheque not the minds/mental health of young students *(Jun 2023)*

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