# The Marlborough Science Academy — St. Albans, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/the-marlborough-science-academy-13473 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 2.0/5 from 14 published reviews - **Principal:** Ms A F Thomson ## Contact - **Address:** The Marlborough Science Academy, Watling Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire - **Phone:** 01727 856 874 - **Website:** http://www.themarlboroughscienceacademy.co.uk/ - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/the-marlborough-science-academy-13473 ## About Welcome to Marlborough, a learning community that I am immensely proud of and one that continues to flourish through a combination of dedicated staff, strong leadership at all levels and a student body who endeavour to embrace their learning opportunities with relish. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Nov 2023 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — Racism and bullying: Teachers allow Racism and bullying while the head does nothing about it. Also the teachers are allowed to say the n word to kids in english lessons disgusting school with disgusting people. Classrooms outdated Just look up my name on google to see a herts newspaper article about this school ! Malachi baptiste *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — sus mmes: this school sucks what how *(Jul 2023)* - **1/5** — My experience of Marlborough science academy: A list of the bad and good things about this school: -Extreme amounts of homophobia and transphobia -constant disregard of rules -I often don't feel safe due to my sexuality -most teachers have given up on punishment -i have had many things thrown at me in class (including rocks) with a teacher watching, they did nothing to stop it - I have been called many slurs - the school often says that it trys to stop bullying but does very little if reported and only exposes that you reported the bully wh… *(Apr 2023)* - **1/5** — A review on the Marlborough science academy: Extreme amounts of homophobia and transphobia with very little consequences. Racism is not too common but only because anyone that is racist would get beaten up, the teachers do nothing. I often feel unsafe being around other students that aren't part of my friend group in fear that I will get beaten up for my sexuality. Some teachers are good at teaching but bad at controlling the class, others are good at controlling the class but bad at teaching. There are very little good teachers. Constant … *(Apr 2023)* - **3/5** — good st albans school well done i guess: good school amazing food must go to school *(Jan 2023)* - **5/5** — soooo amazing: the teachers aree soo nice obviously im DEFINETLY not lying because its so good definetly in no way crappy *(Dec 2022)* - **1/5** — Baddd: teachers were the only good part otherwise my time with Marlborough was genuinely traumatic *(Dec 2022)* - **4/5** — Rough and racist school: Most students are rough and violent in my class they often threaten people with knife crime threats they also shout things like gang randomly. The school is good except from that The year 11 pupils are really rude and they are mischievous. You will here the n word and the c a lot. There are random year 8 selling vapes People get stabbed with pencils in my class. The teachers struggle to control there class. Students are usually racist about foreign teachers they do there accent and make fun of t… *(Nov 2022)* - **2/5** — Poor behaviour from head to toe: I have been there in quality of Cover Supervisor and I can witness a very disrespectful behaviour and staff know and do not do anything about it, instead they blame the cover teacher. *(Oct 2022)* - **2/5** — It's not the best!: Not great to be honest. Traumatising at worst. School has a LOT of horror stories surrounding abusive amongst peers that I'd poorly handled in the faculty. The actual schooling is really good, the education is amazing but very little pastoral support which is very important for teenagers. *(Oct 2022)* ## Other schools in St. Albans - [Samuel Ryder Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/samuel-ryder-academy-13899) — 2.1/5 (21 reviews) - [St Albans Girls' School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/st-albans-girls-school-12912) — 1.3/5 (20 reviews) - [St Albans School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/st-albans-school-7218) — 4.3/5 (5 reviews) - [Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/park-street-church-of-england-voluntary-aided-primary-school-7140) — 4.8/5 (4 reviews) - [St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/st-john-fisher-catholic-primary-school-a-voluntary-academy-22229) — 4.7/5 (4 reviews) - [Redbourn Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/st-albans/redbourn-primary-school-7000) — 4.6/5 (4 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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