# Monkwearmouth Academy — Sunderland, United Kingdom

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## At a glance

- **Type:** Secondary
- **Parent rating:** 1.9/5 from 10 published reviews
- **Principal:** Mr Iain Buddle

## Contact

- **Address:** Torver Crescent, Seaburn Dene, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
- **Phone:** 0191 917 2300
- **Website:** https://www.mwa.tynecoast.academy/
- **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/sunderland/monkwearmouth-academy-21094

## About

Monkwearmouth Academy is a school that believes in its students' abilities, strives for excellence, and provides a broad and balanced curriculum. It aims to instil self-belief and confidence in all pupils and encourages them to develop lively and enquiring minds. The school is part of Tyne Coast Academy Trust.

## Official rankings

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

## Recent parent reviews

- **1/5** — worst secondary in sunderland: worst school my child has ever been to, miss edmundson the year 10 head of year , always singles students out and does not give the same punishment to every kid!!! very shameful school and the staff are very rude *(Mar 2025)*
- **1/5** — Bad school: My name is Craig galer my son dalton got breyed by everyone about an am not happy about it the head teacher shagged the assistant head so the school need to sort it out *(Jul 2023)*
- **1/5** — Terrible School: Facilities are terrible, the school will do anything to improve its inadequate rating through social media and the echo, include bending the truth. Example, summer camp for year 7 transition became a handout to feed kids because times are tough. Homework is constant, even over the school holidays and generally, communication is a mess too. Consider your sanity before sending your kids here. *(Mar 2023)*
- **5/5** — Excellent all-round school!: My child has settled in well at Monkwearmouth Academy. The staff are very supportive and the facilities are excellent. My child loves the ME Time activities and the football academy. *(Sep 2022)*
- **5/5** — Great school with high expectations: Monkwearmouth Academy has exceeded my expectations. The teachers are passionate about teaching and the school's values of Believe, Achieve, and Succeed are evident in everything they do. My child is thriving and enjoying the enrichment programme. *(Jun 2022)*
- **4/5** — Some good and some not-so-good experiences: I have mixed feelings about Monkwearmouth Academy. My child had a great time in their first year, but in the second year, they struggled with some of the teachers. The facilities are lovely, but the communication with parents could be improved. *(Mar 2022)*
- **2/5** — horrid: Absolutely horrible, litter all over the yards, people smoking in hidden corners, students are horrible to each other and the teachers seem to favouritise the bullies and once informed about the bullying they do not do anything about it. riddled with horrible scratters. *(Feb 2022)*
- **2/5** — rubbish: someone done a poo on the stairs in 2016 tells you everything doesn’t it and someone brought a gun in and they called the police like after 2 hours of knowing *(Jan 2022)*
- **2/5** — Not good: Nah could be better uno *(Jun 2021)*
- **1/5** — Don’t let your kids go here.: absolute dog shit. nothing is good about that place, maybe friends and a relationship are the only things you’ll get out of that *(Sep 2020)*

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