# Bellerive FCJ Catholic College — Liverpool, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/bellerive-fcj-catholic-college-13583 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.7/5 from 43 published reviews - **Founded:** 1844 - **Principal:** Peter Forsey ## Contact - **Address:** 1 Aigburth Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool - **Phone:** 20201005 - **Website:** http://www.bellerivefcj.org/ - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/bellerive-fcj-catholic-college-13583 ## About Bellerive FCJ Catholic College is a caring community that helps everyone grow in faith, respect and value other cultures and faiths, and make the most of every given ability. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Jun 2012 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Jun 2012 ## Recent parent reviews - **5/5** — Bellerive fcj catholic college: Bellerive is such a good school I really like it I have been here since year 7 and I am now in year 12 I really like it and I would recommend sending your child to this school. *(Feb 2025)* - **3/5** — Bellerive were not the first school in Liverpool to wear kilts!: Just a point about the school uniform. It says in their prospectus that they were the first school in Liverpool to introduce kilts. This is not true. I went to St Francis de Sales school in Walton in the 70s and the school had a royal blue kilt, introduced in the 60s, similar to the Royal Stewart style, which is actually, still worn today. I remember Bellerive's uniform was brown at that time. It might sound a silly point to make but they think it was serious enough to put in their literature. M… *(Jan 2025)* - **1/5** — Please don’t let your kids go here: My time a bellerive was quite short, however the time I spent there felt like decades of a horrible experience. This school is beyond strict. Makeup, uniform, shoes, equipment, nails, fake tan and soo much is checked to an extreme level. If your daughter wears fake tan to school she is most likely to be in isolation and in some cases suspended. Another big issue is there strictness on school uniform. This school is so strict that you even have to remove the small colour tags on your shoes. I wou… *(Dec 2024)* - **3/5** — Decent school.: Overall decent school, In the begging the school didn’t offer a lot of support. My first three years were very hard even though I had friends around me I still felt like the school needed to improve on helping those with mental health problems. My last two years in the school, have been better as they improved mental health facilities and my mental health isn’t bad anymore but this wasn’t help from the school it was from my family. Teachers are kinder when you get into older years which isn’t as… *(Sep 2024)* - **1/5** — DO NOT SEND: Bellerive Sixth Form has been an absolute nightmare for my child. The staff shortage is so severe that teachers speak rudely to students, leading to a toxic environment where children are forced to drop out of EPQ programs after already promising universities they would complete them. When approached for help, students are blamed for their struggles and left to cope with stress without any support. The school falsely advertises bursaries to vulnerable students, only to deny them when offering ab… *(Jun 2024)* - **1/5** — Girls get screamed at even for mistakes by teachers: Teachers are constantly screaming at girls, don't listen to their views and handing out minus marks, even when the child is not in the wrong but down to a teacher's mistake. If you want your daughter to grow up voiceless or sly, send her to this school. *(Nov 2023)* - **1/5** — Some teachers not as "Christian" as they make out...: Some of the teachers are not as "Christian" as they make themselves out to be - lots of bullying and discrimination towards vulnerable children. *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — Racist to another religion: Muslims In that school aren’t allowed to wear the black wrap around hijab *(Jun 2023)* - **2/5** — Humiliating: School does not care for students mental health and is so unorganised. Some days i have gone hungry due to the canteen running out of food yet all they care about is my attendance and if i can remember my school books. Teachers do not organise homework well as sometimes i may have months of non-stop homework, or weeks without any. And teachers are too strict on homework and do not understand that we may be busy outside of school. However, the school is good for helping unfortunate children with … *(Jun 2023)* - **1/5**: this school is horrible, they suspended my friend for being in a group that she never even said anything in it. skirt checks for what, for our learning to be better? we’re learning and what happens if you have manipulative friends who are trying to say that you’re “gay” but your not? She’s making me say it to year 8s who I don’t even speak to. *(Mar 2023)* ## Other schools in Liverpool - [Archbishop Blanch CofE High School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/archbishop-blanch-cofe-high-school-24541) — 1.7/5 (21 reviews) - [The Studio School Liverpool](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/the-studio-school-liverpool-14713) — 2.6/5 (12 reviews) - [King's Leadership Academy, Liverpool](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/kings-leadership-academy-liverpool-13179) — 1.1/5 (12 reviews) - [Liverpool Life Sciences UTC](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/liverpool-life-sciences-utc-14712) — 2.6/5 (10 reviews) - [Litherland High School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/litherland-high-school-16424) — 2.1/5 (10 reviews) - [Chesterfield High School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/liverpool/chesterfield-high-school-13056) — 1.1/5 (10 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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