# St Mary's Catholic High School, A Catholic Voluntary Academy — Chesterfield, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/st-marys-catholic-high-school-a-catholic-voluntary-academy-13815 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 2.6/5 from 14 published reviews ## Contact - **Address:** Newbold Road, Upper Newbold - **Phone:** 177.7777777 - **Website:** http://www.st-maryshigh.derbyshire.sch.uk - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/st-marys-catholic-high-school-a-catholic-voluntary-academy-13815 ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Outstanding — Jun 2024 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Outstanding — Jun 2024 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Outstanding — Jun 2024 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Outstanding — Jun 2024 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Outstanding — Jun 2024 ## Recent parent reviews - **2/5** — A School fir Bully's: If you are an 'A' star student, the school will walk on hot coals for you. However, bullying is rife!!! They have a safeguarding teacher. I would be amazed if she could spell safeguarding!!!!! St Mary's you are a disgrace. You need to look after your vulnerable, shy students!!! *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — Weird cult: Really weird school. Don't send your kids here unless you are a teacher in which case your kids won't be bullied and they will be made head boy/girl. Really bad school with strange rules. More like a cult than a normal school *(Aug 2023)* - **1/5** — No not at all never: Don't like this school.I was an employee until fired. *(Feb 2023)* - **2/5** — My opinion: I go to St Mary's High School and I am currently a sixth former in Yr 13 and in my opinion there are some problems I have to mention.First there are too much teachers who make students feel bad in certain ways. They make them feel neglected and when there is a problem some teachers do stuff that is very unprofessional.I remember when someone said something bad and the teacher didn't do anything.School is already draining and let people's self esteem low and I've heard that Yr 7 and 8's girls toi… *(Dec 2022)* - **4/5** — Great!: The education at this school is great, however some subjects are better than others. As a student, you get very little homework across all subjects (I am not sure if this is solely due to the ‘COVID-19’ pandemic), which is good for some, but bad for others who want to amplify their learning and knowledge of subjects. Teachers are great and show vehemence in their subject (especially teachers of Art), but sometimes they use the erroneous terminology when talking to students, especially displaying… *(Jul 2021)* - **5/5** — great: This is a great school and the student talking about left-liberal views is upset because his racist and bigoted opinions aren’t welcome here. The school has a zero tolerance policy for such behaviour and is accepting of many views and religions unless they discriminate against others. The standard of education is also great. *(Mar 2021)* - **3/5** — St Marys and there lingering issues!: St Marys is academically, an excellent school. It is the top school in the area to achieve high grades and opens many doors for further education/career options. However, the school lets itself down ever so much with the certain bias the school holds towards certain ethics and politics. The teachers are commonly discussing a left-liberal subjective opinion towards all issues without demonstrating a balanced, objective view. Furthermore, members of staff promote BLM, Desiccation of Sir Churchill’… *(Mar 2021)* - **3/5** — St Marys Review: School academically is an amazing school opening many doors for future pathways in life, however in certain lessons the school has a strong left-liberal stand point; which a school should always remain unbiased in politics. In certain lessons where discussion is encouraged bringing up any idea based on the right of the political compass is quickly turned away and sometimes Villainised. Despite this, Certain teachers preach about the make-believe theory of “White Privilege” which is wrong and sho… *(Mar 2021)* - **4/5** — St Marys: Very left liberal views on many things, in most if not all areas of the worlds issues, English and RE are very bad for this, often declining other views but other than that generally good *(Mar 2021)* - **5/5** — St Mary’s chesterfield: Genuinely the most amazing school. It’s so accommodating to everyone and the values are incredible, it really is like a family, the support is beyond amazing. I’ve been there from y7-y12 and I can truly say I’ve had the best high school experience i could’ve asked for *(Feb 2021)* ## Other schools in Chesterfield - [Outwood Academy Hasland Hall](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/outwood-academy-hasland-hall-21692) — 1.5/5 (16 reviews) - [Outwood Academy Newbold](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/outwood-academy-newbold-16185) — 1.8/5 (14 reviews) - [Brookfield Community School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/brookfield-community-school-12248) — 2.2/5 (12 reviews) - [Inkersall Spencer Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/inkersall-spencer-academy-16709) — 2.7/5 (9 reviews) - [Parkside Community School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/parkside-community-school-22520) — 3.1/5 (7 reviews) - [Palterton Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chesterfield/palterton-primary-school-23436) — 4.8/5 (4 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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