# St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy — Bedlington, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/st-benet-biscop-catholic-academy-16523 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.4/5 from 27 published reviews - **Principal:** Suzanne Lewis-Dale ## Contact - **Address:** Ridge Terrace, Bedlington, Northumberland - **Phone:** 01670 822 795 - **Website:** http://www.st-benetbiscop.org.uk/ - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/st-benet-biscop-catholic-academy-16523 ## About St Benet Biscop Catholic Academy is a large, successful 11-18 secondary school located against the beautiful backdrop of Northumberland, in the North East of England. Rooted in the Catholic tradition, St Benet Biscop provides students with the values that will allow them to grow, develop and ultimately contribute to the communities in which they belong. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Jan 2023 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Jan 2023 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Jan 2023 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Jan 2023 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Jan 2023 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — AVOID AT ALL COSTS.: I watched someone get sold fentanyl in the science block, wackiest shit I ever done did see. Aside from that, I witnessed multiple near-homicides inside school grounds with no staff intervention. Would not recommend for a single living being, including bacteria, to attend this shitarse school. Save your time and mental wellbeing and don't doom your child to such a fate as attending this "school". *(Oct 2025)* - **1/5** — St Benet Biscop: Most terrible school I’ve ever been too, the teachers are horrible, miss cowey for example if your having a panic attack she tells you to grow up and go back to class and if you don’t you get suspended for 5 days, I was once in the toilet cleaning myself up as I have endometriosis and came on my period in the middle of lesson I had to clean myself up and change my tights and skirt and knickers and put on a sanitary pad, miss cowey told me to get out of the toilet she did not care at all after I … *(Jun 2025)* - **1/5** — by jayden brown xox: i’m sick of this school. i am a current student at this school. they have excluded me multiply times including today, for not doing an assessment which was hard and u didn’t understand because they have exlcuddd me that much u have lost a great deal of learning. teachers do not understand what students go through day to day. they have made sure i feel so low about how i am and how i react to things. i have done nothing but try and all they do it keep trying to push me off the edge. i love the he… *(Nov 2023)* - **1/5** — school: I got permanantly excluded for walking out of isolation for wearing trainers when i was on crutches for an ankle injury also during my time at st benet bisops i was wearing school pants that were slightly tight and look like leggings so one of the male teachers looked at my bum to make sure they werent leggings theyre unfair and also stopped me eating my dinner the day i got expelled from bennies, theyre all perverts and freaks. *(Nov 2023)* - **1/5** — do not send your kid here if u want them to have a good metal health: last year they got my friend to come in and say sorry for looking 'uneat' basicly saying she looked scruffy *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — st benet biscope and why uits really bad: So this school is pointless they give you detentions for anything the uniform is really bad your not aloud make up lashes jerwerly gum nail not aloud to wear white shoes for example normal converses your not aloud to do anything all you have to do is behave and sit still and some of the teachers treat you really bad on computer loads of sites are blocked if u skip cause your upset you will get suspended for 5 days they will not care for u they will tell you to suck it up i have only been to this… *(Jul 2023)* - **1/5** — st beni biscops: it is such a bad school they dont let you go to toilet or anything *(Jun 2023)* - **1/5** — worst school ever: worst years of my life if im being totally honest. the teachers are horrible and they only care if your following the rules. the detention system is ridiculous e.g. if you dont have your shirt tucked in you have to stay behind for half an hour if you walk out of a lesson you get suspended for 5 days. this is one of the worst schools in the area. would not recommend *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — Bad school for anyone: This school is a breeding ground for bullying, harmful rumours and staff misconduct. There has been several bullying incidents that the school has not really solved properly and the deputy head has embarrassed students by talking about confidential information relating to the students with other pupils in the corridors. 0/10 would not recommend. The school has left several people felling unsafe in the school. *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — Horrible school/ don’t send kids here!: This school is a joke. I’m at this school and I wish I never came at all. They don’t understand you at all and when a ‘incidence’ happens they only listen to one side of a story. Some teachers are amazing and listen to you but others are disrespectful and rude. Detentions are ever worse, you get a detention for the wrong coulour socks? You don’t get any days where you’re not in non school uniform. This school needs shut down. *(Oct 2022)* ## Other schools in Bedlington - [Bedlington West End Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/bedlington-west-end-primary-school-9053) — 4.2/5 (4 reviews) - [Meadowdale Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/meadowdale-academy-13500) — 3.4/5 (4 reviews) - [Bedlington Station Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/bedlington-station-primary-school-9054) — 4.8/5 (3 reviews) - [Stead Lane Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/stead-lane-primary-school-9058) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) - [St Bede's Catholic Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/st-bedes-catholic-primary-school-21646) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) - [Bedlington Whitley Memorial Church of England Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bedlington/bedlington-whitley-memorial-church-of-england-primary-school-9107) — 4.4/5 (3 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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