# Tavistock College — Tavistock, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/tavistock-college-19389 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.6/5 from 33 published reviews - **Principal:** Mr James Buchanan ## Contact - **Address:** Crowndale Road, Tavistock, Devon - **Phone:** 01822 614231 - **Website:** http://tavistockcollege.org - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/tavistock-college-19389 ## About Welcome to our College; proudly serving our community and beyond. We promise to do whatever it takes to ensure that every student at Tavistock College achieves their potential. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Apr 2024 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Apr 2024 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Requires Improvement — Apr 2024 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Apr 2024 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Requires Improvement — Apr 2024 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — Horribly bad: Make us install apps every year and if you can't get I sorted the you get all day detention witch u can't learn anything bad behavior - hate from Dylan Harrison *(Sep 2025)* - **1/5** — I’m moving away from this shithole: Stay away the school is like a concentration camp *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — Bring back Mrs Jones: Bring back Mrs Jones. She was the best head we had. She talked to you as a person, dealt with bullies and cared about us. Now we have a military boot camp *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — disgusting: got bullied so badly at this school nd they did nothing about it traumatised me so much I still to this day cannot get into school and I was only there for a few months honestly has ruined my life. Education was terrible and so were all the teachers. literally saw a girl getting dragged down the corridor on my first day no joke. food was also terrible and always out of date or hard from being cooked over and over *(Sep 2023)* - **1/5** — (Tw SA) bad school good stuff at end: Do not go here I’ve put multiple reports in for bullying (2023) nothing has been done not even a reply email and it was going on for months I had to get my friends to help me getting them caught up in it too also uniform is stupid if ur child or u are plus size from maybe xL upwards don’t go here they don’t sell uniform that will fit u as the waist band is the same on all sizes as a xS also (TW SA) I was constantly sexually assaulted and reported the boy multiple times only for nothing to be don… *(Aug 2023)* - **1/5** — STAY WELL AWAY: This school is like living hell. The teachers do not care about your mental health AT ALL as they tell students to shut up, instead just care about uniform , student voice is pointless as the teachers are the ones that choose what happens with the school. Principal and assistant principal make the rules - but they do not follow them. In the mornings when it is cold we have to do this military style lineup which no one is liking and even tried to cut short break times to lineup. Some teachers sit… *(Dec 2022)* - **2/5** — Shit place: this school is truly the worst. litterly sitting in math rn writting this because how terrible this school is and how teachers are trash here got bullied on the first week chavs everywhere Everyone vaping in the toilets wich is disgusting MOST ARE YEAR 7 older years coming in lessons and disturbing others Teachers dont give a shit about you or your mental health actually they make a bunch of kids cry Shit teaching skills and teachers dont know barley anything R1's dont do anything when u report … *(Nov 2022)* - **3/5** — Tavi skl yh: School overall isn’t to shabby but there’s loads of new rules in place that many of the students dislike such as line ups split breaks and no phones i am happy with not being allowed to use my phone in school but all of my friends are in ks4 yet i am in ks3 so i have no friends to hang out with i think if we are separated from our friends at break we should be allowed out phones. I think line ups after break time is pointless and that we should go straight to lessons and get an extra 5 minutes o… *(Nov 2022)* - **1/5** — Help us get our headteacher back: It used to be good when we had a lovely headteacher up to 2021.. She dealt with bullies and came into lessons to make sure we were being taught well. Now we have a headteacher who shouts and screams and we have to behave like we are in a military camp. It’s making me suffer with anxiety and no one cares. It all went down so quick *(Nov 2022)* - **1/5** — Please read this before sending your child to tavistock college: Terrible absolutely terrible lots of people drop out due too mental health problems multiple teachers on a power trip all focus on uniform not on student wellbeing and will NOT listen to students the schools "student voice" is completely controlled by staff choices not the students which defeats the object take no consideration for the individual pupil and tell you to embrace individuality whilst as the same time suppressing any opinion that opposes the ideas of the school not to mention the mil… *(Nov 2022)* ## Other schools in Tavistock - [Castlebridge School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/castlebridge-school-24340) — 4.3/5 (4 reviews) - [Tor View School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/tor-view-school-19575) — 4.2/5 (4 reviews) - [St Peter's Church of England (VA) Junior School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/st-peters-church-of-england-va-junior-school-16711) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) - [Milton Abbot Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/milton-abbot-primary-school-23703) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) - [St Rumon's Church of England (VC) Infants School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/st-rumons-church-of-england-vc-infants-school-16803) — 4.7/5 (3 reviews) - [Whitchurch Community Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/tavistock/whitchurch-community-primary-school-22384) — 4.4/5 (3 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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