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Reading Girls' School

Reading, United Kingdom
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2.5 /5

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Rating Breakdown

Based on published reviews
Safety & Security 2.9
Teaching Quality 2.9
Communication 2.7
Student Wellbeing 2.8
Facilities 2.9

School Workforce

Teacher and staff information • 2024-2025

Note: These figures are estimated based on national averages. Actual school-level data not yet available.
17.0:1
Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Excellent
53.2
Teachers (FTE)

Estimated workforce data based on GIAS enrollment and national average ratios. Academic year 2024-2025.

Secondary School Results (Key Stage 4)

Exam performance data • 2023-2024

47.8
Attainment 8
Average grade across 8 subjects
+0.05
Progress 8
Above average
54.0%
English & Maths 9-5
Strong pass in both
67.2%
English & Maths 9-4
Standard pass in both

Additional Information

40.1% entered EBacc
30.7% achieved EBacc
137 pupils in cohort

Data from DfE Performance Tables for academic year 2023-2024. Published January 2024. View full performance tables

Reviews 14

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Parent
Parent Aug 2, 2024
2.0

"Kinda a bad school"

A lot, of school fights, loud students, bad environment, don’t understand a lot of the lessons, maybe cuz I’m kinda stuiped ish, so is a lot of student (sorry!!!!)

Some teachers r really good, computer teacher is great!!

All teachers seem a bit angry a lot of the time.

Food good but not very filling n kinda hungry after, n sometimes after I eat my stomach hurt, but no often

Only went to the school cuz my friend went, kinda regretted that but eh.

A lot of the teachers left, which was mostly good teachers so next year will probably be even worse then this year, which didn’t even know it could get worse!

But a handful of teachers and students make it an, okay- ish school.

But still a bad school

Don’t recommend
Safety & Wellbeing 2/5
Teaching & Learning 2/5
Communication 1/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 2/5
Facilities 2/5
P
Parent
Parent Jul 28, 2024
3.0

"Student"

They try there best but I suggest trying harder
Safety & Wellbeing 5/5
Teaching & Learning 5/5
Communication 5/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 5/5
Facilities 5/5
P
Parent
Parent May 16, 2024
4.0

"Fights in RGS bad school"

They fight very often and even if you do something very small they will give a detention which is not nice as it goes on your record some teachers target students like my daughter,16/5/2024 fight /storage/emulated/0/Download/VID-20240516-WA0001.mp4
Safety & Wellbeing 3/5
Teaching & Learning 4/5
Communication 5/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 5/5
Facilities 5/5
P
Parent
Parent Oct 20, 2023
2.0

"Positive & Negative"

The staff and Students are very rude and when i was in year 7 all the students were horrible. The teachers are very strict and gave you a C1 and detention often. I will say, the food at RGS is very good and the dinner ladies put lots of effort into making it.Education wise, its good but i advise going to a place where they are nice to you.
Safety & Wellbeing 4/5
Teaching & Learning 3/5
Communication 3/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 2/5
Facilities 3/5
P
Parent
Parent Jun 5, 2023
3.0

"My experience at school "

Whilst the school building and base curriculum are pretty good this school has always had an issue teachers or the lack of them especially within the science department this means that for alot of students our education is broken up and we struggle to get the grades needed to pass
Safety & Wellbeing 3/5
Teaching & Learning 4/5
Communication 3/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 4/5
Facilities 4/5
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Parent
Parent May 13, 2023
1.0

"cause for concern."

one star is too much already this school has very rude teachers and they don’t do anything about racism especially and they use the excuse ‘it was a misunderstanding’. teachers don’t care about anything other than themselves and are selfish and rude and pick favourites.
Safety & Wellbeing 2/5
Teaching & Learning 1/5
Communication 1/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 1/5
Facilities 1/5
P
Parent
Parent May 11, 2023
1.0

"Appalling behaviour across the school"

The behaviour of the students was shocking! On a school trip, they made fun of another school because of their name. This was not just one student however, all students shared common values and were willing to share their opinion no matter how rude it was.
Safety & Wellbeing 1/5
Teaching & Learning 1/5
Communication 1/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 1/5
Facilities 1/5
P
Parent
Parent Apr 22, 2023
3.0

"Reading Girls"

I have been called names.
Teachers don't really care about students opinions
Some teachers are nice
The mental health ambassadors are good
Need more variety of food
Safety & Wellbeing 3/5
Teaching & Learning 4/5
Communication 2/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 2/5
Facilities 2/5
P
Parent
Parent Nov 20, 2022
3.0

"review for reading girls school"

not fair for different school years, staff shortages,
Safety & Wellbeing 3/5
Teaching & Learning 3/5
Communication 2/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 2/5
Facilities 2/5
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Parent
Parent Sep 12, 2022
2.0

"Don’t recommend "

I’m a senior student now. The school was great for a while, however less than 10 teachers stayed after the last academic year, and that is no exaggeration. Learning is relatively poor standard, and the staff on the most part are uncaring towards students besides their grades. The senior staff (principal, vice principal etc) are disconnected from students, barely knowing which year group we’re in when we approach them. All in all its declined drastically in quality in the past 2-3 years.
Safety & Wellbeing 1/5
Teaching & Learning 2/5
Communication 2/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 2/5
Facilities 2/5
P
Parent
Parent Aug 23, 2022
3.0

"Reading girls school "

Good school but lack of good teachers and at time can be a toxic environment
Safety & Wellbeing 4/5
Teaching & Learning 3/5
Communication 4/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 3/5
Facilities 3/5
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Parent
Parent Apr 1, 2022
2.0

"I've been there from year 7 until the end "

Overall, it has improved since the beginning, but some teachers decided to single me out for reasons I still don't know, as if I was worse than everyone in my class. Other teachers on the other hand were absolutely amazing
Safety & Wellbeing 3/5
Teaching & Learning 2/5
Communication 2/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 3/5
Facilities 4/5
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Parent
Parent Jan 15, 2021
4.0

"Good school"

It’s a nice school and very high quality teaching, although I only give it 4 out of 5 because the school environment can get very toxic, I think this is down to only having girls there. But overall it is such an underrated school compared to others in reading( I’d know because I’ve been to 4 of them) it was definitely the best out of the 4 :)
Safety & Wellbeing 4/5
Teaching & Learning 4/5
Communication 4/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 4/5
Facilities 4/5
P
Parent
Parent Jan 11, 2021
4.0

"School"

It’s a good school, hardly any fights and they attain good grades- although some of the teachers use and abuse their power
Safety & Wellbeing 5/5
Teaching & Learning 4/5
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing 4/5
Facilities 4/5

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