St. George’s School, Birmingham | Fees, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

As a student here, I would recommend this school . The senior school had very good support for all children even those with additional needs. The staff are very friendly and very supportive.
The food is excellent too.
Finally the sixth form is great for those considering this school after GCSEs. There is a great choice of subjects, and class sizes are small and great for learning.

Overall sending your child here would be a great benefit for both their social and educational development

Edit: After the end of my time this school, it has been a wonderful school for my confidence and development from the day I joined till my final day.

St George’s school is an outstanding school, and our son is thriving both academically and personally. The staff are fully engaged, enthusiastic and it feels like one big happy family. The environment is unpressured, the class sizes are small, the children feel happy and relaxed and we are very grateful to be part of the St George’s community.

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.

Our son has spent seven years at St George’s and from a rocky start in education he has gained 3 A’levels and we are very proud of him and grateful to the school.
The SEN team has worked hard to help him in what were sometimes challenging situations, whilst having to manage their own time and money constraints.
As is so often the case, communication between school and parents could have been better. The child is not a good conduit, and I felt I could have been ‘on message’ more if I had known what the message was.
On the whole staff were warm and encouraging and we have many examples of them going above and beyond to help.
We really appreciated their ability to show flexibility when it was required, especially in the 6th form.
I think schools are tough places for staff and pupils, but St George’s stayed the course and stuck with my son and saw him through.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

My son has SEN, despite being given every assurance that St George’s would take him under their wing the reality after a short period of time was very different and truly shocking.They failed him and us at a time when he also was under the fantastic care of Birmingham Children’s Hospital having suffered very worrying and serious medical issues.
The measure of any organisation and indeed school is how they treat their most vulnerable members. St George’s management in my experience have no concept of this and lack any empathy, I would now advise parents to look elsewhere for their children’s education.