# Arena Academy — Birmingham, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.8/5 from 13 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Beeches Road, Great Barr
- **Phone:** +44 1217297310
- **Website:** https://corearena.academy
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/birmingham/arena-academy-19594

## Official rankings

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

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — DO NOT GO HERE.: Absolutely terrible. The only good thing about this school is that i'm leaving it soon. Bullying is terrible and nothing is ever done. They hand out the detentions like fucking sweets causing there to be no proper discipline for students who don't behave. There are little to no good teachers left since the ones who actually care about students have all left and all we have is cover teachers CONSTANTLY. The school library is a good place to be but WAYYYY too small for the amount of students that … *(Sep 2024)*
- **1/5** — arena academy no longer cares: don’t force ur children to go to this school. i experienced my worst days at this school as the students , teachers and environment added to my anxiety. i’ve done a business course and my teacher was severely racist to a student as she referred to him as a terrorist due to his ethnicity. the school hangs up “stop racism posters” and i think it’s a whole lot of bullshit as the teachers did NOT fire her instead she’s not aloud a promotion. this obv means that she didn’t learn anything as she still… *(Aug 2023)*
- **1/5** — Anxiety academy: If your ready to experience hell go for it, this school has given me serious anxiety it’s not even funny💀 racist teachers, rude teachers, teachers can’t even hack it as most of the good ones have left😭 it’s actually out of proportion and the school needs serious help. Dirty pads/ tampons on the toilet floor, they under-grade your work aswell. The slt think that by shouting at students they r fixing the problems and then complain when the students defend themselves like be for real. One of the te… *(Jul 2023)*
- **5/5** — Arena: It the best school ever they gave free pens out to us *(Jul 2023)*
- **5/5** — Great School: I went to Open Day! Its a lot better than before. The school is back on track *(Mar 2023)*
- **1/5** — CORE STANDS FOR CUNTS OF RADICAL EXCELLENCE: when I joined the school the school was alright Mr Rogers was barely there but the school was alright it wasn't that bad there was still activitys till this Massive Cunt (sorry for explicive language) Mr Raj mann came in He told us bout this bs story saying he was some top notch criminal yet thinking his the next gru from minions but when some kids who are absloute knobjockeys come up to him he becomes an absolute pussy and can't defend his life the school is now run that bad Students who think … *(Jul 2022)*
- **1/5** — Core is an egg: When I first joined this school the head teacher mr rogers was an actual g nothing bad ever happened and if it did he would resolve it quickly and properly, but then this big headed jerk who just cares about money and this stupid trust called core came along and they ruined it. Any time a kid did something against his quote on quote fair rules the “popular” kids would always seem to get there where and when one unnamed teacher tried his best to make it fair he gets sacked. To sum things up even … *(Jul 2022)*
- **2/5** — Don’t go to this school: Bad school, head teacher has no idea what he’s doing, thinks he can run the school. The kids act hard when really they are with their mates. When they are on their own the act completely different The hygiene is terrible, the toilets are not clean there’s rubbish everywhere When there is fights teachers do nothing about it and don’t care for students *(Jul 2022)*
- **1/5** — Poor School, poor teachers: If your child has any problem at all, the school will not help at all, it's all about there results and your child is nothing to them. Please don't waste your time or more importantly your child's happiness on sending them to this school. Poor school, poor teachers and a bag full of anxieties for your child in one package. *(Nov 2021)*
- **3/5** — Review of AA: Many teachers only teach for the power not because they enjoy it and actually want to help you. Also too many people think they’re above everyone else and when they do something wrong but then something right they get more rewards. Dumb. Also the indoor environment isn’t usually kept well, unhygienic toilets. *(Nov 2021)*

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