# The Brakenhale School — Bracknell, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/the-brakenhale-school-17147 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.0/5 from 14 published reviews - **Students:** 1100 - **Founded:** 1958 - **Principal:** Camilla Douglas ## Contact - **Address:** Rectory Lane - **Phone:** +441344423041 - **Website:** https://www.brakenhale.co.uk - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/the-brakenhale-school-17147 ## About The Brakenhale School is an 11–18 mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Bracknell, Berkshire, England. Established in 1958 originally as Borough Green City Secondary School, it became an academy in April 2016 and is part of the Greenshaw Learning Trust. The school underwent a complete reconstruction in 2020 and adapted to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is known for its strong community focus and values of aspiration, kindness, and responsibility, aiming to prepare students for future success through a broad curriculum and extracurricular activities. The school has a reputation for improving attendance and fostering a supportive environment for its students. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Outstanding — Jan 2019 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Jan 2019 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — DO NOT ATTEND!: My child has experienced racism by s female student and my child was the one punished from this shit school. DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL IT HAS NO EMPATHY TOWARD RACISM! *(Mar 2025)* - **1/5** — terrible school: This school is horrible for children above the age of 13 it’s like a military camp students are forced to line up outside no matter the weather for 15 minutes in complete silence and if someone is to talk, they will go inside do line up again and that student will receive a after school detention. Some staff are excellent with the children and are so caring but others only care about uniform, work and homework. If a task is left uncompleted it will result in a detention. If a student is disrupti… *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — BAD SCHOOL: Bad School, doesn't know how to cope with difficult children - they skip an easy solution and send them home which isn't very effective to their learning. This has occurred for multiple silly reasons that could be resolved easily if they took the time of day to care about the students that find learning and other children nd school environment difficult and sit down and speak /help them, possibly children would enjoy school more. The Teachers have also made fun of children's heights which is una… *(Oct 2024)* - **1/5** — Miserable: If I could score it a 0 I would. It is miserable there and I would not recommend this school to any child. *(May 2024)* - **1/5** — Lack of empathy: If your child has SEN then they are used as a scapegoat. Their views are disregarded against other students accounts of events. They can’t handle children who find it difficult to regulate their emotions and who can only ‘fight or flight’ in certain situations. One or two misdemeanours and your child will always be in the wrong never enough to prove themselves. *(Mar 2024)* - **1/5** — Kids should be seen and not heard.. so the school thinks: If I could have give 0 star I would.. to be fair the teaching is not bad, my daughter has learnt well here. The problem with this school is most teachers are interested in uniform issues and feeling powerful against the children. As a parent your views don’t count it’s there way or no way. For minor issues kids are sent to RR for the day to reflect and not allowed to voice there opinion, a few times my daughter has been sent here when she’s not actually done anything wrong but rather than get to… *(Oct 2023)* - **1/5** — Why brakenhale is bad: I find this school and its rules revolting,the fact that if a student is having an emergency if they need the toilet,they have to wait atleast 10 minutes to be escorted to the toliets is extremely disappointing.Many students have wet themselves or left classes and been punished with detentions unrightfully.These new rules,not just the toliet rule all of the new and old ones are just overall pointless,the students are angry and clearly aren't listening to the rules and good for them. *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — Mental healthcare: The school is overall okay, look wise… but they do not care about mental health, they tell you to just Drink water…. *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — This isn’t what school should be.: Where do I start? I believe this school since I’ve joined has gone down severely in quality. Teachers are a very mixed bag, some are honestly the greatest people you’ll meet but most are just not that friendly and also at despise the students. Many of them have bad attitudes which cause more problemas in the class room. Break and Lunch are ruined thanks to almost half of the available area being reserved for year 7’s and what is left is usually crowded leading to many students unable to go to lu… *(Jul 2023)* - **1/5** — Horrible: The teaching is overall ok. But they do not care about the students mental and physical health. If you feel really sick they'll tell you to just drink some water and go back to class. They care more about how students present themselves than they're actual education. Having acrylic nails, multiple ear piercings or dyed hair is not going to affect anyone's learning and they'd rather put you in isolation so you lose as they say "valuable learning time" than just leave it. The teacher will tell you… *(May 2023)* ## Other schools in Bracknell - [King's Academy Easthampstead Park](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/kings-academy-easthampstead-park-22515) — 3.3/5 (10 reviews) - [Garth Hill College](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/garth-hill-college-4095) — 2.0/5 (8 reviews) - [Ranelagh School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/ranelagh-school-12856) — 1.6/5 (5 reviews) - [Kennel Lane School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/kennel-lane-school-23291) — 4.8/5 (4 reviews) - [King's Academy Meadow Vale](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/kings-academy-meadow-vale-23995) — 4.8/5 (4 reviews) - [King's Academy Binfield](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/kings-academy-binfield-19858) — 4.7/5 (4 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. Please attribute and link to https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bracknell/the-brakenhale-school-17147 when citing this data.