# Colchester Academy — Colchester, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.4/5 from 19 published reviews
- **Students:** 937
- **Principal:** Mrs J Betts

## Contact

- **Address:** Colchester Academy, Hawthorn Avenue, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3JL
- **Phone:** 01206 861217
- **Website:** http://www.colchesteracademy.org.uk/
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/colchester/colchester-academy-11983

## About

Colchester Academy strives to ensure that our young people receive the very best education, realise their full potential and are prepared to become responsible and successful citizens.

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Mar 2023
- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Mar 2023
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Mar 2023
- **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Mar 2023
- **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Mar 2023

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Colchester academy reviews: This school is terrible you need a toilet pass to go to the toilet and there are racist teachers like mrs Lyons mr Davies and mrs cosma mrs Lyons hates black people and I should know because I am a black person she gives me a detention for picking up my pen from the floor avoid them avoid some year 8 as they threaten to beat you up *(May 2025)*
- **1/5** — colchester academy is not a good place: i am currently year 11 at colchester academy and my past 4.5 years their have been horrible. year 7 i got suspended for 3 days after hitting a male student who tried to put his hand up my skirt and he got a half day isolation. they permanently suspended the student after a year of him doing this to other girls in the school. my most recent interaction with a assistant principle who i will refer to as dmh told me to stop going non-verbal and tell him my problems. i have adhd and autism and i was … *(Dec 2024)*
- **1/5** — ex student: i went to this school from 2019-2023 and never had a pleasure experience i had dealt with a sexual assault in 2022 and at first it was being looked into but when the students parent informed the school that until it was all swept under the carpet he would not be attending school so i was told his attendance and learning is more important so it was left there and turned into teacher gossip once starting gcse classes he was put into numerous ones and i had complained and i was promised to be moved… *(Oct 2024)*
- **1/5** — Rude staff: Get detentions for no reason,some of the staff are rude *(Jan 2024)*
- **1/5** — WORST school in Colchester.: This school does not give a care in the world about you, it has had so many sexual assault cases and they do nothing about it I had proof of what happened to me and they kept the 2 students in school anyway, I also had my nose broken in late 2021 on schools grounds and they thought it was helping when they asked if I wanted a wet paper towel, and instead of calling the police, ambulance ect they said they needed permission from my parents to get me “help” the boy that did it had also sexually as… *(Jul 2023)*
- **3/5** — Only good teachers: the school is average. Only a few teachers holding it together in which all the students love, theses teachers are : Mr Elliott, Mr Cook, Ms Taylor (ssm), Miss Akers, Miss Cornish and Miss Jones *(Jun 2023)*
- **1/5** — Please leave: Please do not go to this school to be honest I recommend leaving Colchester because all of it and it’s schools are terrible *(Jun 2023)*
- **1/5** — terrible !!!: I mean it do not put your kid in this living of hell this school is vile!!! Kids are getting bullied in colchester academy and teachers do not do anything about it, it’s terrible please do not take your kid to colchester academy! *(Apr 2023)*
- **1/5** — school needs to be sued: i don’t even know where to start. i went to the school and as of right now i should be a year 11 student however i had to drop out due to the school’s ignorance and disgusting approach towards bullying, homophobia and sexual assault. whilst at that school i was bullied from year 8-11 and received no help what so ever. i was sexually assaulted on two occasions to which when i brought it up to my head of year she said “boys will be boys”. i also didn’t go to school for a year because it all got so… *(Feb 2023)*
- **1/5** — Terrible, need to get to grips with the bullying: The school is full of bullies and there is zero discipline. Kids are fighting or doing wheelies in the middle of the road outside in the mornings. My child says that if children shout and swear during lessons, they are not removed from class, meaning the ones that want to work are constantly affected with the disruption. There is a points system and if the naughtiest kids sit still for a few minutes they are awarded points whilst the quiet ones get nothing. They have a bullying policy which is n… *(Oct 2022)*

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