# The Astley Cooper School — Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/the-astley-cooper-school-7171 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.7/5 from 19 published reviews - **Principal:** null ## Contact - **Address:** The Astley Cooper School, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom - **Phone:** 1004287 - **Website:** http://www.astleycooper.herts.sch.uk - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/the-astley-cooper-school-7171 ## About The Astley Cooper School is an 11-18 Secondary School on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. Our vision is to ensure that when students leave, they have become successful, well rounded and confident individuals prepared to succeed in the modern world. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Nov 2021 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Nov 2021 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Nov 2021 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Nov 2021 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Nov 2021 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — Racism: it is absolutely a horrible school because even the principal is racist there. Racism is so expected there. It’s absolutely disgusting and the teachers are racist as well which I find crazy. they are so rude and absolutely disgusting I can’t believe they got hired *(Jan 2026)* - **1/5** — canteen problems: food is so expensive and unhealthy, pupil premium persons get £2 a day for break and lunch. all substantial food items are over £2.30 which is also the limit for the pupil premium a day. how am i supposed to buy food. all i could afford is a little cake. they just want us to get fat at this point. *(Oct 2024)* - **1/5** — please don’t jeopardise your child’s mental health: (please don’t put your child at risk by sending them here the astley cooper school is torture!) absolutely disgusting school, staff who’s jobs are specifically to protect the children won’t even give me a ring when my child’s threatened to harm themselves. selfish creeps if anything especially that osbourne, already one pedophile staff member has been outed yet no one will shut this circus down absolute chaos the teachers have no control of the classroom absolutely disgraceful. please don’t put … *(Oct 2024)* - **1/5** — dreadful school, would not recommend: astley is such a bad school, pedo teachers, theyve caged up the toilets now, phone pouches, mental health isnt taken care of, major bullying problem like i saw a kid almost get KILLED and they only expelled one person out the five that did it. i got jumped infront of everyone and it took them a month to expel the person who did it, not to mention the creepy teachers too. id give it a one star but i cant, would not recommend. *(Sep 2024)* - **1/5** — Disgusting🤢: This school tells girls to cover their body so they don’t distract boys. Outrageous 🤢🤢 *(Jul 2024)* - **1/5** — WARNING: Really bad teachers don’t do there jobs vapes drugs and more linked with other students (don’t send your child here) *(Jun 2024)* - **1/5** — DONT SEND YOUR CHILD HERE: Really bad now it use to be an okay school but now it’s the worst fights almost every day vaping drugs some of the worst teachers there that don’t know how to do there jobs adyfeild is better nicer people and yes there teachers actually do teach you (astley has a lot of bully’s and racism) *(May 2024)* - **5/5** — Astley cooper school: This school has major safeguarding issues ,no communication from the school . Heads of the school have been involved in OFF ROLLING this is a common practice at this school .my children felt they were not safe and bullied to an extent of police involvement . *(Apr 2024)* - **1/5** — astley review: bad teachers init , teachers dont know what their teaching themself *(Apr 2024)* - **2/5** — Astley cooper report: It's not the best the bullying is terrible to the point were kids are leaving the school because of it and nothing is happing the teachers ain't got a clue what they r on about the food options r overpriced and overrated there's barely any vegetarian or vegan options the teacher are mean and ruthless so are the kids the one another *(Nov 2023)* ## Other schools in Hemel Hempstead - [The Hemel Hempstead School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/the-hemel-hempstead-school-22619) — 1.5/5 (15 reviews) - [Laureate Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/laureate-academy-20296) — 2.4/5 (11 reviews) - [Longdean School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/longdean-school-12724) — 2.1/5 (9 reviews) - [The Adeyfield Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/the-adeyfield-academy-19477) — 3.1/5 (7 reviews) - [Redbourn Park School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/redbourn-park-school-21815) — 1.3/5 (7 reviews) - [Yewtree Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/hemel-hempstead/yewtree-primary-school-11577) — 3.9/5 (5 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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