# Highcliffe School — Christchurch, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 2.1/5 from 12 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Parkside, Highcliffe
- **Phone:** 1725364861
- **Website:** https://www.highcliffe.school
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/christchurch/highcliffe-school-12423

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Oct 2017
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Oct 2017

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO HIGHCLIFFE: I did not even survive 6 months at that horrendous school, every day feeling horrible about going in, and begging my parents not to take me into school. Your classmates do nothing but make you feel horrible about yourself, worst of all the school does NOT care about your mental health, they might give you an exit card and let you talk to a teacher for 40 minutes, but after a week they completely don't care. Worst of all, if they give you an exit card, they most likely make you wait outside of Pa… *(Mar 2025)*
- **5/5** — Great school: Amazing school staff are very nice one of the best schools in the UK I'd say.Food is great indoor and out door equipment is great excellent school 5 stars *(Mar 2025)*
- **1/5** — Dont go there unless your child is a prick.: Worst part of my life. *(Jan 2025)*
- **1/5** — highcliffe sucks: Teachers are horrible, not a single one cares about children and only bother about attendance and uniform. They would rather children be sick in school and wanting to kts than have them under 95% attendance. There are also so many creepy teachers that clearly have a thing for kids *(May 2023)*
- **5/5** — Great school: This school has lovely staff and a great education system. The food is not the best but as far as I am aware most people still eat it. *(May 2023)*
- **1/5** — bad school: The school do nothing about bullying. Many incidents that have happened to me and other students have had nothing to help/prevent the bullying *(Nov 2022)*
- **4/5** — Idk man: School does not treat everyone equally + Rewards those who usually behave badly for acting as a regular student. Good art courses as well as history, maths and science. Bad courses such as compting / business studies. Teachers are a gamble, either a terrible one which will affect your grades or a great one who practically carries you 🤷 Just your average school , really. *(Oct 2022)*
- **1/5** — 101 things Highcliffe is doing wrong: This school is terrible throughout last year I was harassed and on occasions verbal abused by a teacher who despite knowing I was autistic and struggling procced to make things more difficult for me when talking to pastoral and other members of staff about this incident it was insinuated that it was my fault and I had provoked the teacher and they couldn't possible help anymore than they had (I moved seats) Early this school year I tried to commit suicide which resulted in 2 weeks of the school … *(Apr 2022)*
- **2/5** — Do not recommend: An awful school to put it lightly, teachers don’t care about their subjects or you. Your only valuable to them if you have good grades and high attendance, as soon as either starts to slip for any reason, they pull you aside and say “highcliffe may not be the school for you” implying that they will soon kick you out. Many many many cases of bullying all not sorted out and one tragically left to a teen suicide, nothing is done about bullying and they haven’t learnt from previous issues of self ha… *(Oct 2021)*
- **2/5** — Could be a lot better: Truthfully, highcliffe is a good school. Yes everyone gets good grades and the teachers have high standards but as students this puts a lot of pressure on us. The school mostly care about their reputation and not the mental and physical well-being of their students. They especially pick on uniform. No skirts above the knee, no trainer socks etc. This only makes us feel more uncomfortable at school when it should be a calming environment where you can learn and enjoy your education. Even though t… *(Oct 2021)*

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