Saracens High School

Saracens High School has been a deeply disappointing experience. While the school loves to promote a polished, professional image, the reality is quite different once you’re involved as a parent. One of the biggest concerns is the bullying — it’s widespread and poorly handled. When bullying is reported, the school’s response is minimal at best, often prioritising the school’s reputation over the safety and well-being of the students.

Even more worrying is the lack of support for children with mental health challenges. There seems to be very little understanding or meaningful provision in place. Students who are struggling emotionally are often left without proper care, and mental health issues are frequently dismissed or misunderstood. There is no consistent or compassionate approach, which is unacceptable in this day and age.

Communication with parents is inconsistent, and concerns are often brushed off. The leadership team is focused more on discipline and sports than academic growth or emotional support. If your child is neurodivergent, sensitive, or has additional needs, you’re unlikely to find the support they deserve here.

For a school that talks so much about values, it falls far short in practice. I wouldn’t recommend it to any parent who wants a safe, supportive, and understanding environment for their child.

Attending Saracens from Year 7 is detrimental to the character of young people. The strict environment and the businesslike running of the school - treating the children and their achievements as assets rather than human beings - encourage misbehaviour. At schools where children are allowed appropriate freedoms, the kids are much more content, focused on learning, well behaved and a social environment that discourages bullying - and outcasts rather than accepts people who start problems - is autonomously created by students.

Good facilities and resources, but a strict and unwelcoming culture which removes freedoms from students - counterintuitive as this ends up encouraging misbehaviour - and is ultimately reminiscent of a regime. Children need a sense of independence, notably something absent from this school.

My child always get picked on by teachers, the school run by punishing students if they make mistakes! My child had been caught chewing a gum and they made him pick all the gums on the walls, and around the school, its disgusting my child had to touched all these hardened gums everywhere, even during the times of covid, unbelievable!