# Baines School — Poulton-le-Fylde, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.4/5 from 15 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Highcross Road
- **Phone:** 2592000
- **Website:** http://baines.lancs.sch.uk/
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/poulton-le-fylde/baines-school-8254

## Official rankings

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

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — This school is a no go: This school is absolutely shocking the teachers are horrible to children and all staff try and put children in isolation for absolutely nothing *(Jul 2025)*
- **1/5** — dog water: terrible teachers think there hard especially dr metcalf *(Apr 2025)*
- **5/5** — Great school great everything 💯😁💯 love the teachers: Love the school great food nice teachers if you ever have miss brairhwaite *(Mar 2025)*
- **1/5** — I'm in Y11 and iv never been so low in my life.: I have been a member of this School since Y7 and the whole way through that I have never felt more alone and uncared for in my life. Half the teachers at this school can't even teach lessons properly and I am unfortanate enough to have those very teachers I have learnt absolutely nothing in Y10 and 11 (the most important years of my life!) and what to teachers do about that, absolutely nothing in fact I have basically been made fun of by teachers for not being able to answer "simple questions" e… *(Jan 2025)*
- **1/5** — Horrendous: Only wish I could give no stars . This school has been a living hell. They appear to ONLY be interested in dishing out ridiculously harsh punishments and educating on wokeism. Honestly the worst school I’ve ever known . *(May 2024)*
- **1/5** — Disgusting attitude from new head: This school is a shambles the rudeness of staff to parents and children is beyond belief. The new head teacher thinks she is running the army . Also discriminate against any child who has any form of learning disability. Shame for the hand full of teachers who clearly come from better schools and want what’s best for kids . The app is abused and only used as a tool to lower children’s self esteem . Head teacher mrs Doherty is nothing less than a power hungry bully . If your child’s struggling wi… *(Jun 2023)*
- **1/5** — BAD JUST BAD: Very dissatisfied and disappointing this school just fails at anything no matter the effort you put in for justice for your child it’s a laughing stock they get worse at actually doing there job and you laugh at it then they laugh about your kid and all the kids that come to there pathetic little “support” “pastoral” room I’ve looked around at first glance it seems lovely welcoming and bright so do the staff the posters seem to inspire young minds and seem very helpful and yes that’s also the ro… *(Apr 2023)*
- **1/5** — Don’t recommend, very disappointed: It is advertised as a loving supporting and no tolerance for bullying school but the support pastoral team think the responsibility of “sorting something out” is just a quick sorry and hug or a possible statement they embarrass children with stupid talk therapy just to humiliate them later on and don’t even look at sides of story’s all bad reviews on here are the same because there are bullying in every school it’s how they deal with it and here the Teachers are bullies they gossip about student… *(Apr 2023)*
- **1/5** — VERY POOR AND BAD: The system at place in pastoral seems lovely at first but it’s a trap they tell everyone to “open up” miss a few lessons and write statements or do talk therapy the teachers talk about students and parents behind there backs and have nicknames if u bring ur kid here and they go to the support pastoral they’ll eventually get gossiped about disgusting!! *(Apr 2023)*
- **1/5** — DISGUTING!!: The teachers at this school have NO respect!! At all for students parents the lot my daughter was really struggling with bullying and they had the audacity to lie to my face and tell me she’s alright and even tried to ban me from picking up my daughter, pastoral support team make up open up and give no support but a student statement and sit there laughing about the bad and good students *(Apr 2023)*

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