St. George's School 31 Calthorpe Road, Birmingham B15 1RX

"Amazing school, amazing staff. My son absolutely flourished due to all the brilliant support from teachers & his friends. Highly recommended."

"Worked there for nearly a full year, eventually handed my notice in due to moving house and thought all was well. They ended up withholding my final paycheck from me for six weeks, ignoring my calls and emails, and being rude and evasive when they did reply. Eventually they simply agreed to pay me what I was owed when I told them I was seeking legal aid. There are numerous other stories from my time there too. They lose a lot of staff habitually. I would not recommend working there."

"Ex-student They like a certain type of person and if your not that then your no good. Students were privileged and had a superiority complex(especially the boys.) If you are thinking of sending your child especially if they are a girl here, don’t. Another take away from my experience was- private school doesn’t always mean its the best of the best. When I have children of my own I will think twice about private education as for my experience it was not worth the money."

"I attended SGSE from 2014 to 2020 and there has been some significant changes. The positives are that there are some genuinely passionate teachers like Dave Ashford who is the head of music. I was part of the school band and he was also my form tutor up until 2018 when I was in year 10. He is one extremely passionate teacher and he really does care about the subject he is teaching. He is probably one of the best teachers i have ever met. Another mention is Nathaniel Jowitt who is a very patient man and also a great maths teacher, probably the best in the school. He helped me a lot. When I joined SGSE from Hallfield in 2014 I did enjoy it. I started in the lower school and the class sizes (year groups) were small. Expect around 15 per year in the lower school. By far one of the best private primary schools and it was also very easy to make friends there too. I joined upper school in 2015 and the school had a certain buzz and charisma then. A lot of talented people and the performance acts were insane. However come 2020 and I feel that buzz and charisma has gone completely. Many teachers seem to come and go very quickly. And when the good ones go it takes a huge chunk out of the school. Management hasn't changed much at all. I would say honestly from my point of view teaching standards there have dropped. They are not as good as what they used to be despite the exam results. My main concern is some of the students they let in the school. In my year I remember one student coming in from Priory where he was expelled from and another from Solihull again expelled. My year ended up becoming toxic and behaviour went down the drain. From what I know myself there were a lot of drug issues between some students. This may be different for other years but this is what i experienced. The management are not the best. Apart from Luke Nicholls who is an extremely nice man. I just feel management were a tad disorganized and also they seemed quite arrogant. Some teachers used to shout a lot which I feel is unnecessary at all costs. Some were quite arrogant and rude to me also. Rest of the teachers were fine but i highly doubt the ones I knew will be there in 5 years. I will praise the fact that they do let you sit maths and english a year early in GCSE. This is a very smart move. The GCSE options too are great as well with good facilities. However, the school is beginning to look knackered and it does need a full touch up of paint and TLC. I did enjoy some parts of my time however, looking back the environment i was in was toxic. My year was not well behaved at all and I admit sometimes that influenced the decisions or actions i took whilst I was there. One of the worst things though is their phone ban. I think it is ludicrous and needs to be scrapped. The idea of having to hand your phone in every day is absurd considering any students are responsible with it anyways. Also I do not attend the sixth form and I did not attend it for many reasons including management of it. But also in the 6th form you have to wear business attire? Sounds a bit crazy to me. I do hear it is good for b-tecs though. I did make friends here however, i also had a few issues with people too. I felt some children here had extremely poor attitudes and its not what you expect from a private school. They were rude, cheeky, nasty and ultimately a bad influence. These kids were mainly deemed as the "cool kids." If you are a teacher I would say that sometimes it can be an issue. Some classes i was in such as top set English were sometimes hell with kids messing about not wanting to learn etc. It can sometimes be challenging but other times rewarding. I feel the school is going downhill. Thats what I felt during my years there. I think new management is needed massively and also a bit more organization. Also the school does need some TLC doing inside and out. Would I send my kids here? If I was staying in the UK in the future (which I am not) I wouldn't. Would I recommend the secondary school? Not really i feel there is other schools that offer more."

"My son really appreciated his time here."