# Holly Lodge High School College of Science — Smethwick, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.1/5 from 15 published reviews

## Contact

- **Address:** Holly Lane
- **Phone:** +0490-0491
- **Website:** https://www.holly-lodge.org
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/smethwick/holly-lodge-high-school-college-of-science-1990

## Official rankings

- **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — May 2013
- **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — May 2013

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — Bad school: My daughter has been here not a good school *(Jun 2025)*
- **1/5** — Miss southall: My child was excluded from the school. Made to go to pru. The best thing that ever happened to him. It wasn’t so much the students that bullied him but the teachers especially miss southall. I would love my child to be able to go back to school and face miss southall and tell her how she went wrong in how to teach less academically pupils to become who they are meant to be and teach other pupils to become what they want to be. *(Apr 2025)*
- **1/5** — horrible school: i wish i could give 0 stars. this is a terrible school. i am currently in year 8 and the education is tolerable and quite okay but it is not a good enviroment at all. the teachers and heads of years barely do anything the give a whole speech about mental health and bullying but in reality they just do it for show. the amount of students i know who have and are still being bullied is crazy the teachers here see this and fail to do anything i have expirienced this personally. not saying all teache… *(Jan 2024)*
- **1/5** — Teachers incite violence and bullying at this garbage school: I have recently starting searching and trying to find out what I can do to help my youngest brother who attends this school. I had barely gotten started trying to find laws or understand if the police might help my brothers, when I found a review shockingly similar to my brother's case. When I tell you the school does nothing and incites both students and teachers to bully my brother, I mean to say somethings realllly wrong with this school. The issues still ongoing and the teachers seem to want… *(Oct 2023)*
- **2/5** — Poor academic prognosis.: Don’t send your child to this school. I myself was a former student and this school blatantly favours the students who have the ability to boost their academic reputation. Only the supposed brighter students are afforded the opportunity to attend extra workshops and sessions with universities. Their criteria for assessing intelligence being quite biased and unfair. Students are not treated equally either in lessons, I remember feeling unfairly excluded and not being invited to extra study sessio… *(Sep 2023)*
- **1/5** — Very bad bullshit school: Bad horrible school false accusations made to students bad staff bad all *(May 2023)*
- **1/5** — Racism: My son attends the school and has received racist abuse and harrasment, threats of being beaten up. Avoid if possible. *(Dec 2022)*
- **1/5** — Please don’t apply: If you want your children to go to a school where teachers and staff don’t seem to care by all means go, this schools for you. *(Oct 2022)*
- **1/5** — Ridiculous: Daughter got abused, hit by other students and staff didn’t seem to care apparently. *(Oct 2022)*
- **1/5** — Run .: Run . This school is the most disrespectful school where teachers don’t teach nothing . (That’s from experience) . I am advising all you parents a big warning to not let your child attend here . The rules have been changed way too much to the point where kids don’t enjoy learning and really have bad mental health issues . From this , me including other students are tired of these teachers being rude for no reason with no excuse or as they like to say “it’s school rules “ . Is it school rules to … *(Sep 2022)*

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