# Harper Green School — Bolton, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/harper-green-school-18118 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.6/5 from 20 published reviews - **Principal:** Ms S Heppenstall ## Contact - **Address:** Harper Green Road, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0DH - **Phone:** 01204 572941 01204 573540 01 - **Website:** http://www.harper-green.bolton.sch.uk - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/harper-green-school-18118 ## About A friendly, welcoming atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to be themselves. Fantastic facilities including science labs, brand new dance and drama studios, sports facilities and a well-stocked library. A commitment to helping students excel in both their learning and personal development. ## 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** — School needs to be closed down or deeply reevaluated: Tried emailing and calling the school but had no luck. They prefer to talk to the students rather than parents/guardians, which comes across as very unprofessional. They wouldn’t let my student pick her desired GCSE subjects and wouldn’t let her change it. They seem to be a lot more focused on the uniform rather than the education which is absurd to me, because how is the yellow thread on DocMartens frowned upon, it’s a thread for crying out loud!! This school is honestly terrible, please save y… *(Oct 2025)* - **1/5** — DONT SEND UR CHILD HERE: THIS IS THE WORST SCHOOL THE TEACHERS ARE THE WORST HELPLESS EVER THEY HATE THE STUDENTS AND THEY DONT HELP ANYONE THEY ARE THE WORST STUDENTS EVER THEY ARE SO BAD AND THIS IS SUCH A BAD RATING IF YOUR CHILD STUGGLES WITH SH AND MENTAL HEATH THIS IS THE WORST SCHOOL FOR THEM COMING FROM EXPERIENCE *(Jun 2025)* - **1/5** — Got pissed on: was having diarrhea in the bathrooms and SOMEBODY managed to piss on me. idk how you do that mate *(Sep 2024)* - **1/5** — CHILD ABUSERS: Year 5 & 6 parents, id reconsider your child’s secondary school. Harper Green school, is not the one. That’s unless you’re okay with them using food as a form of punishment. Yes that’s right they will take away your child’s basic human right to have a lunch, if they are late!! Teachers think this is acceptable because it’s in harper green school policy. Yet they’d soon be punishing your child further, if students wernt working to their standards in class, given that food is fuel!! Child abusers … *(Sep 2024)* - **5/5** — good school: verry good in my expirience teachers are good and helpfull *(May 2024)* - **1/5** — Bad school: Avoid this school, the staff includes head teacher is helpless, most of students are bullies, no supportive school management… *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — Worst school ever!!!: Alot of the teachers will speak to you in a horrible way, they say they're all about mental health but in reality they pick favourites and focus on them (either popular kids or smart kids the rest of us are left to struggle) they make you feel stupid and little if you dont know something and will say stuff like "its common sense" well its not is it mate because its stuff you're meant to teach us. Strict rules and it is extremely unhygienic. Lots of people say the teachers make their issues feel … *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — HONEST HARPER GREEN SCHOOL REVIEW!: So bad, probably the worst school in history to be honest. The teachers dont help and aren't friendly, neither are the students/pupils or any other staff. Honestly, people aren't wrong when they say this is a terrible school but there is some wrong which is that it is more than just terrible. Bad education, rules, everything. Most the students break all the rules and nobody even says anything, the staff and teachers dont care, they don't give one whatsoever. The good pupils dont even get rewarde… *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — please don’t put your child through it: I am a former student from many years ago when this school was very good. I sent my daughter and son, my daughters experience was ok, my sons was terrible, they accused him of stealing a coat when he arrived to school in a new coat! actually rang his dad to check if we had a receipt! which of course we did, they put him isolation for not having a pen, then didn’t give him any work to do, they constantly spoke down to him, i went in for several meetings and when i challenged their behaviour towar… *(Feb 2023)* - **1/5** — Shocking school !!: Absolutely shocking school no communication between teachers and parents. If your child is naughty they remove the privilege of your child getting there dinner! Unless you complain then they have to be escorted by a teacher. Actually shocking do not send your child to this school *(Jan 2023)* ## Other schools in Bolton - [King's Leadership Academy Bolton](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/kings-leadership-academy-bolton-20740) — 2.4/5 (18 reviews) - [Bolton St Catherine's Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/bolton-st-catherines-academy-19370) — 2.2/5 (18 reviews) - [Westhoughton High School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/westhoughton-high-school-2453) — 1.9/5 (12 reviews) - [Mount St Joseph RC High School a Voluntary Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/mount-st-joseph-rc-high-school-a-voluntary-academy-24069) — 1.8/5 (12 reviews) - [Thornleigh Salesian College](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/thornleigh-salesian-college-2456) — 1.6/5 (11 reviews) - [Turton School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bolton/turton-school-2454) — 1.2/5 (11 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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