# Hermitage Academy — Chester le Street, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/hermitage-academy-21093 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.6/5 from 24 published reviews - **Principal:** Lindsay Maughan ## Contact - **Address:** Waldridge Lane, Chester-Le-Street, Co Durham, DH2 3AD - **Phone:** 0191 388 7161 - **Website:** http://www.hermitageacademy.co.uk/ - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/hermitage-academy-21093 ## About Our vision is simple and shared by all: to provide an excellent education for all students, helping them to achieve their full potential and become confident, capable and compassionate individuals. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Mar 2024 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Mar 2024 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Mar 2024 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Mar 2024 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Mar 2024 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — Shocking: This school row dreadful it needs looking into for safeguarding due to teachers aggression towards children . Children with SEN just get excluded as they can't manage them . DISGRACEFUL *(Jul 2025)* - **1/5** — Suspend children for anything: Terrible school , get suspended for anything , teachers have no control no body likes to attend here it's gone so bad *(Jan 2025)* - **1/5** — Hermitage Academy: The school is tremendous the teachers scream at you for no reason and the school hires pedo teachers but if ur skirt is rolled they scream at you but it's OK if they hire pedo teachers this is disgusting *(Jan 2025)* - **1/5** — DONT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE: this school is a prison the food is awful the staff care more about the uniform then the students and make it a horrible place and the staff scream in your face for no reason DONT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE *(Oct 2023)* - **2/5** — The New Head ruined everything good: I previously wrote a review and gave it 4 stars. I stand by what I said at the time, but since the new head came in, the schools became more of an anarchy with pathetic rules that no one follows, and most of the good teachers, particularly some in the math department, all left and have been replaced with alright ones, but not up to the quality of the old ones. I will say the food has improved but not by much, so a cross between the good teachers leaving and a stricter head enforcing pathetic rul… *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — Disgusting behaviour: Disgusting teachers screamed at my daughter after she came back from being ill for not doing a piece of French homework it’s disgusting she won’t be returning *(Aug 2023)* - **1/5** — How bad the hermitageacademy is: The school is stupid right fine they teach you but the school rules aren't good can't wear nose piercing even if there clear can't have more that two studs per ear can't wear leggings get told of for nothing mostly some teacher's are canny some are just insane dramatic little things like I would not really pit your child in the school unless your ready for the amount of crap they put you through also mental health they only do the tiniest thing's but there no help really. *(Jun 2023)* - **1/5** — I hate this place: love the chips but the chickens bad. Also massive fight 🫢 wasn't there so its the schools fault *(May 2023)* - **4/5** — My time so far: When I first came to Herma a few years back I knew it was the school for me, however nowadays I do have some complaints, with some classes battered with significant low Level Distruption with ruins my learning in subjects I chose for options, and the food is either excellent or diabolical. Overall though, still a good school *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — Bullying: A terrible schilling for bullying !!!! I have pulled my child out of this school because of bullying the punishment is very poor *(Mar 2023)* ## Other schools in Chester le Street - [Lord Lawson of Beamish Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/lord-lawson-of-beamish-academy-13385) — 1.9/5 (12 reviews) - [Park View School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/park-view-school-12598) — 2.8/5 (9 reviews) - [St Benet's Catholic Primary School, Ouston](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/st-benets-catholic-primary-school-ouston-21578) — 4.8/5 (4 reviews) - [Pelton Community Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/pelton-community-primary-school-23260) — 4.6/5 (4 reviews) - [St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, Birtley](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/st-josephs-catholic-junior-school-birtley-22115) — 4.4/5 (4 reviews) - [St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, Birtley](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chester-le-street/st-josephs-catholic-infant-school-birtley-22087) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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