# Sheldon School — Chippenham, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/sheldon-school-12327 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.4/5 from 8 published reviews ## Contact - **Address:** Hardenhuish Lane - **Phone:** 116061322 - **Website:** http://www.sheldonschool.co.uk - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/sheldon-school-12327 ## 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** — Awful place: Teachers hold personal grudges against students and engage in gossip with students. Poor attitudes and lazy. *(Nov 2025)* - **1/5** — lying to justify their actions.: tend to like to suspend me for example for no good reason, multiple times a week holding me in until 3, it’s been agreed i leave at 12 multiple times funnily enough that’s one of the reasons they suspended me. they like to back track on their words and make school a living hell. i’ve been internally suspended since september. no reason given. they tend to lie about what my mum has said to them too to justify their actions, i’ve talked to my mum about this. since she last got ahold of them, they’… *(Sep 2024)* - **1/5** — Poor sixth form (especially the head, Eugene Spiers): The head of sixth form as well as its staff are very good at making false promises, but useless at actually supporting pupils. My daughter informed me how she was effectively told by her head of sixth form as and her english teacher that she should seriously reconsider university despite her trying her hardest. They made it out as if she had not been doing the work despite her staying afterschool most days for independent study. DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE, Hardenhuishes facilities are vastly be… *(Jun 2024)* - **1/5** — Terrible school, do not recommend: School is terrible, the "anti bullying system" doesn't even work, all they do is tell you to keep reporting. I have been reporting for 2 years and nothing happened, the worst punishment a student can get for bullying is basically a 20 mins detention and in some rare cases 1 day suspension. Teacher doesn't even look out for bullying even if its happening right Infront of them. *(Apr 2024)* - **4/5** — Be more understanding: It’s a good school but there isn’t many indoor places for lunch and break and the food is not very nice .some teachers are ok but are very short tempered and don’t understand when students struggle to focus *(May 2023)* - **3/5** — it is ite: it’s alright i guess but still pisses me off with unnecessary uniform and phone rules. like you have to walk off school premises to text someone even if it’s after 3:00?? teachers are mostly ok with a small few of them being funny and enjoyable. on the other hand, there are a small few which i can’t stand. not going to mention any names… chavs/roadmen or whatever need to **** *** ******, can’t stand them thinking they’re cool.****** girls hang out in the toilets which is pretty grim, apparently … *(Sep 2021)* - **2/5** — Don't recommend: It's ok but most of the teachers are crap. *(Jan 2021)* - **1/5** — social distancing: it’s a bit bad, it was okay but gone downhill. people smoke in the toilets lol, no social distancing measures that work are in place *(Sep 2020)* ## Other schools in Chippenham - [Hardenhuish School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/hardenhuish-school-12048) — 1.8/5 (19 reviews) - [Abbeyfield School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/abbeyfield-school-24482) — 1.9/5 (11 reviews) - [Lacock Church of England Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/lacock-church-of-england-primary-school-10391) — 4.6/5 (4 reviews) - [Luckington Community School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/luckington-community-school-10352) — 4.6/5 (4 reviews) - [Kington St Michael Church of England Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/kington-st-michael-church-of-england-primary-school-10390) — 4.5/5 (4 reviews) - [Sutton Benger Church of England Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/sutton-benger-church-of-england-primary-school-21078) — 4.5/5 (4 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. Please attribute and link to https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/chippenham/sheldon-school-12327 when citing this data.