# The Ferrers School — Rushden, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/the-ferrers-school-15026 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.3/5 from 28 published reviews - **Principal:** Mrs Clare Raku ## Contact - **Address:** The Ferrers School, Queensway, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire - **Phone:** 01933 313411 - **Website:** http://www.theferrers.org - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/the-ferrers-school-15026 ## About The Ferrers School is a school in which excellence and success are both desirable and achievable, and I am privileged to have been appointed as Principal in September 2025. I am committed to providing a high-quality educational experience in a school that places learning and individual achievement at the centre of everything we do. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Jul 2021 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Jul 2021 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Jul 2021 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Jul 2021 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Jul 2021 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — If you love your kid,don't send them here: SSA's are unreliable and only make things worse,I went to my SSA for advice on how to cope with bullying,I got told to burn myself with ice or to hit myself, They use intimidation to get your kid to do what they want, teachers don't care about your kids at all, You have no human rights, absolute hell to go here. *(Mar 2025)* - **1/5** — Lies, laziness and complete idiots: This school is set on lies! They don’t sort important issues out and refuse to meet deadlines! The head teacher is a scared, unqualified, questionable lady that can’t sort things out! If your child has an issue that needs to be dealt with, the ferrers school will not deal with it! *(Feb 2025)* - **1/5** — Don’t go here: The schools is horrible. Toilets are disgusting (tampons on the floor). Broken roof, used to have rats. Teachers don’t teach they only give you worksheets about things they haven’t even taught and expect you to know them. Headteacher is pathetic, glad she’s going. I’m not gonna name names but one of the ladies in a house office spoke badly about a kid saying he’s fat and shouldn’t have mental health issues. Don’t recommend *(Feb 2025)* - **1/5** — Stupid school: I have been to the school around 20 times telling the head teacher to help my autistic, traumatised son cope better. They have done absolutely nothing at all and the head teacher diagnosed my son with ADHD when she isn’t even qualified to say that. I’m fuming *(Jan 2025)* - **1/5** — Unable to do their job: I have made a review about this school before, around November, concerning my child being bullied and mentally struggling. I have spoken to several team members concerning the bullies for a month and nothing has been sorted. It doesn’t help that he is in year 7 and has just started the school. *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — I hate this school: Getting bullied, have been beaten up and the girl who did it didn’t get expelled. Have enough with this school and the horrible people. *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — No help at all: No help with mental health. I was suffering for years in that school and not one person noticed. This was back in 2017 *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — Undisciplined bad behaved kids. Bullying: As a former student that went here in the 90s and my 15 year old goes to this school I have to say it’s changed a lot. I hear from him that kids walk around school in big groups during lesson and mess about blasting music in the toilets. Basically the kids are being tw@t$ and the school system (aka teachers) can’t control their behaviour. Back in the 90s there were never any children outside lesson or shouting at the teachers, but if there were they would get sorted out and it rarely would happe… *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — If your child is SEN please read: My child suffers from diagnosed anxiety and depression and goes to this school. He has also been diagnosed with ADHD and autism since he was 5. We have had so many meetings trying to make it easier but they don’t cooperate. My child, his friends and some parents I know that got information from their own children said to me that the deputy head of the school had an assembly and mentioned a student in the school who had ended up in hospital because of mental health and she said it was because of … *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — Disorganised staff, unqualified moron teachers: Very disorganised, doesn’t meet deadlines and can’t set up plans for the future. I’ve witnessed a room full of kids screaming and talking very loudly and the teacher can’t even control them. About 10 of them were on their phones and another 5 were hiding them under the desk. There may be better teachers but the one I saw was awful at his job. He moved on very quick with the work so it looked like some students didn’t have time to write and process all this information. Keeping in mind the work l… *(Dec 2024)* ## Other schools in Rushden - [Rushden Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/rushden-academy-20110) — 4.9/5 (4 reviews) - [South End Junior School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/south-end-junior-school-8985) — 4.5/5 (4 reviews) - [Higham Ferrers Junior School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/higham-ferrers-junior-school-24007) — 4.2/5 (4 reviews) - [Alfred Lord Tennyson School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/alfred-lord-tennyson-school-8978) — 4.8/5 (3 reviews) - [Denfield Park Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/denfield-park-primary-school-8995) — 4.8/5 (3 reviews) - [Whitefriars Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/whitefriars-primary-school-23979) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. Please attribute and link to https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/rushden/the-ferrers-school-15026 when citing this data.