# The Boswells School — Chelmsford, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.7/5 from 19 published reviews
- **Principal:** null

## Contact

- **Address:** null
- **Phone:** 1723119886
- **Website:** http://www.boswells-school.com
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chelmsford/the-boswells-school-13325

## About

The Boswells School is an extremely popular, academically successful, over-subscribed 11-18 school in Chelmsford, Essex that has an excellent reputation within the community. Our academic success makes us one of the highest achieving schools in Essex. We pride ourselves in providing our students with a high quality education, through innovative and inspiring teaching in the classroom and a wide-ranging extra-curricular provision that enables every individual student to flourish.

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Apr 2013
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Apr 2013

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Warning: Avoid The Boswells School at All Costs: Warning: Avoid The Boswells School at All Costs I'm writing this review as a warning to others: do not, I repeat, DO NOT send your child to The Boswells School. My experience at this institution was an unmitigated disaster, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. From the moment I stepped foot on campus, I knew something was off. The atmosphere was toxic, the teachers were apathetic, and the students were miserable. It was like walking into a nightmare that you couldn't wake up from. The acade… *(May 2024)*
- **1/5** — THIS SCHOOL JUST CARES ABOUT THEMSELVES SO DO NOT GO THERE!: It is the Dumbest school in history and you will learn nothing there, my experience there has been astonishing and I would rather die than go there the teachers are so bad, and act like they know everything, also some of them when a student asks about the subject and asks a question about it they don't know the answer so they have to search it up on google like if you're that dumb don't even be a teacher and it hasn't been once it has been loads of times like every time someone asks a question t… *(Aug 2023)*
- **1/5** — DO NOT GO TO THE BOSWELLS SCHOOL!: DO NOT GO THE BOSWELLS SCHOOL! It is the Dumbest school in history and you will learn nothing there, my experience there has been astonishing and I would rather die than go there the teachers are so bad, and act like they know everything, also some of them when a student asks about the subject and asks a question about it they don't know the answer so they have to search it up on google like if you're that dumb don't even be a teacher and it hasn't been once it has been loads of times like every… *(Aug 2023)*
- **1/5** — DO NOT GO TO THE BOSWELLS SCHOOL!: DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL! its so bad and everyone bullys you aso you loose so much friends and the teachers are so bad some of them even bully students and when you do your work they give you a pal 1 out of no where when you did nothing trust me you will rather die than go to this school and when you just take your phone out to see the time they just take it off you like WHY? your just looking at time its no big deal then if you keep looking on your phone they take it off you and you have a 15 m… *(Aug 2023)*
- **1/5** — Very bad: Stupid school I tried to learn but none listened bro don’t risk yo life coming here Boswells sucks man don’t go there booooooooo *(Jul 2023)*
- **1/5** — Fergs: A Spanish/American bloke I know called Ferg is coming to the school but I scared of getting bullied about the fact that he looks Jewish. Make him feel welcomed and I shall give a better review 🥶🥶 *(Jun 2023)*
- **2/5** — My experience: I feel like the staff don't take bullying as seriously as much as they say they do. They also have bad teachers that shout at people for no reason and don't crack down on bad behavioured students. Half the teachers disappear for ages replaced with horrible substitutes. It is a toxic environment and the punishments for bad children aren't good enough. Yeah, 5 half-hour detentions, and that doesn't do anything to make their behaviour better. I myself got behaviour points for telling a kid to put t… *(Apr 2023)*
- **1/5** — Worar school ever see: The school was a total s***t missed my dyslexia . Snob teachers. Interested in their own kids and no one else's. I'd drown my children than send them their. . *(Jan 2023)*
- **1/5** — School only interested in SATS not Children best needs.: It started well but unfortunately when a racist situation brewed and was carried out for a while with some vile aggressive comments towards a child it showed the school didnt do enough to support the abused and even had both parties in detention together. The abused lost all belief in the teachers and school except one. This happendd at a critical year and only started to study 4 months before exams. He did well considering. I wouldnt let my child go here *(Nov 2022)*
- **4/5** — Some Great Things, Some Room for Improvement: I've been impressed with some of the things The Boswells School has to offer, such as the Sixth Form and the Duke of Edinburgh Award. However, I do think that the communication with parents could be better - it's not always easy to get information about what's going on. My child is generally happy and engaged, but sometimes finds the workload to be a bit too much. *(Oct 2022)*

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