# The Westgate School — Winchester, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/the-westgate-school-6621 ## At a glance - **Type:** K12 - **Parent rating:** 1.5/5 from 24 published reviews - **Principal:** Mrs Dean ## Contact - **Address:** The Westgate School, Cheriton Road, Winchester, SO22 5AZ - **Phone:** 01962 854757 - **Website:** http://www.westgate.hants.sch.uk - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/the-westgate-school-6621 ## About The Westgate School is a happy and vibrant community, where pupils are encouraged to aim for excellence. Our values and ethos are based on the fundamental belief that we are a community of learners - adults and pupils alike - in which every individual should be enabled to enjoy learning and develop as a happy and healthy individual, who is able to make a unique and positive contribution to society: learning together, achieving excellence. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Early Years Provision):** Good — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Outstanding — Nov 2023 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — very poor: do not send your kid here it’s honestly the worst thing i’ve experienced in my life *(Oct 2025)* - **1/5** — 2025 westgate updates read now!: This school is honestly the worst, and this could lead to the current Y10 failing their GCSE. All the good teachers are leaving because of our new head of school, who has made the 5-star ratings drop down to a 1.9. There are subs the majority of the time, and they don't teach properly. Ever since Jon Gargan (head of school) joined, he has made a whole new uniform for the students, and it's silly because the Year 10s finish soon, and they had to purchase this expensive and irrelevant uniform. I b… *(Jun 2025)* - **1/5** — The westgate school: Worst school ever , a friend of mine got called a twat by a food tech teacher and she said yeah that’s what you are and I’ll call you worse or something along the lines of that, what kind of tecaher says that to a child? I have no idea what the school keeps people like that woman employed because they sure don’t deserve it , what are they even teaching? They’re not there to teach they’re just miserable and sad and take it out on children because that’s the only people who “ can’t disrespect them… *(Jun 2025)* - **1/5** — Staff heading for the door: Since September 2023, the school has been under new leadership with an authoritarian approach. Unfortunately, this has led to a significant exodus of teachers. Excessive micromanagement, relentless lesson observations, and rigid expectations have created a stressful and demoralising work environment. Teachers have little autonomy in how they deliver lessons and minimal input in decision-making or the overall running of the school. There is no sign that leadership are drastically changing their a… *(Mar 2025)* - **1/5** — Mr gargen needs to go: There are 3 teachers at Westgate that actually care about students, 3 that's f'in ridiculous, it's not even about learning anymore it's giving children hour and lunch detentions with isolation, they threaten to body search students if phones are given in, the smart students are praised and rewarded whilst regular students are punished and criticized. Mental health, bullying and well being are not cared for It's like Mr gargen said I want people to hate me, now we have line ups and if we miss tho… *(Dec 2024)* - **1/5** — why you should never send your child to westgate school: just don't send your child here staff and hygine are horribly bad and the rules are so unbalanced that breathing air feels like a gambel *(Dec 2024)* - **5/5** — BEST SCHOOL!: This is the best school i have ever went to, i started this school in 2020 and left in 2024, i wish i never even left this school, i never appreciated this school enough until i moved school and realised that this was an amazing school, if any of you are thinking of going here, you should! I hope my 2 most favourite teachers see this Mrs Komarewics and Ms Foley, Your Amazing From: OlayemiOlowosusi *(Sep 2024)* - **1/5** — This place is a complete dump: .Overpriced food .Horrible people .2 many incidents .Bad at resolving bullying I had to use my fist twice to get him to shut up and it worked. Horrible place go somewhere else. *(Oct 2023)* - **1/5** — Bullying that is not being dealt with: The Westgate School in Slough is renowned for its reputation to NOT DEAL WITH CHILDREN THAT ARE BEING BULLIES OR HARASSED. The teacher dealing with this is rude, condescending and does not help at all . They Do Not suspend the bullies or call them out - they make out the person who is being bullied is to blame. The heads need to get MORE INVOLVED and the school committee and council need to take Action Before a child hurts themselves. *(Oct 2023)* - **1/5** — Unfair: the teachers can be so rude to students thinking that there smart. for free school meals you can now only get certain things, when this happens students probably starve themselves. i go to this school and i personally dont like it. if someone is bulling a student then they say 'if it carries on they will have a sanction' i dont believe that because that happened to me and it hardly got dealt with and it still goes on today!! *(Jul 2023)* ## Other schools in Winchester - [John Keble Church of England Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/john-keble-church-of-england-primary-school-6583) — 4.7/5 (4 reviews) - [Osborne School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/osborne-school-6664) — 4.7/5 (4 reviews) - [Micheldever CofE Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/micheldever-cofe-primary-school-11064) — 4.6/5 (4 reviews) - [The Pilgrims School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/the-pilgrims-school-6682) — 4.5/5 (4 reviews) - [Kings' School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/kings-school-6647) — 4.4/5 (4 reviews) - [Sparsholt Church of England Primary School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/winchester/sparsholt-church-of-england-primary-school-6543) — 4.3/5 (4 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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