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2.6

Based on 9 reviews and 79 answers

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  • Safety2.3
  • Food2.3
  • Education2.1
  • Indoor environment2.1
  • Activities2.1
  • Communication1.9
  • Staff1.8
  • Outdoor environment1.8
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  • Student
    2.0
    1 February 2026

    My current experice with Acg Sunderland

    Personnaly as a student in this school who started last year in year 7 I have been given racist behavior by teachers for the sole purpose of being white. In this school teachers dont care about what you might be going through, but instead how they feel. I have seen teachers underestimate students because of their race and have bad behavior to students. Also they are putting in new math teachers who make class extremly boring and make you line up in girls and boys lines just to get into class the...

  • Former Student
    1.0
    11 December 2025

    expensive and definitely not worth it.

    imma keep it short but to sum it up if you purely care about education then its alright, otherwise everything else is bs. High costs for sh*tty facilities and inadequate teschers, barely any sports or extra curriculars. Its bad. Really bad. I highly suggest u dont come to this sh*thole. Also forgot to mention, the upper management is shitty asw. They literally will take everything way too seriously and escalate and exaggerate small things that arent a big of a deal and get you into trouble.

  • Former Student
    1.0
    16 September 2025

    tuff school

    ACG Sunderland is a nightmare. The school is mostly Chinese students, both domestic and international, and it shows as many swear at teachers in Chinese with zero consequences, while tiny things like untucked shirts get punished. Some teachers are great, but a few are terrible, expect you to self-study whole units, or barely speak English and only talk to certain students. Classes are stressful, there’s constant testing, forced subjects like eight IGCSEs for science with barely any lessons, and...

  • Other
    1.0
    9 September 2025

    gordon

    i wish i could give this school 0 stars one of your students called my little son a fatherless f word n word. the name is gordon

  • Former Student
    2.0
    18 August 2025

    A Costly Education For Practically Nothing In Return

    This school is certainly something. Firstly, the student behaviour management is poor. Teachers and Deans are willingly giving out detentions for poor sustained reasons, while not actually focusing on the true troublemakers. Teachers here also have an egoistical attitude, some teachers being more noticeable- Basic respect is lacking. This school accepts any type of student, troublemakers, everything- with no regards to fix any of their issues. Secondly, education. This school pushes you to the...

  • Student
    1.0
    18 August 2025

    Insanely bad school

    This school genuinely sucks, not only do the principals care more about your uniform then your academics, they genuinely do not care for there students, they just smash in 900 foreign students who don't speak English whatsoever, and expect them to learn and not constantly disrupt classes. ACG Sunderland is just a cash grab school, all they want is money and I have no idea what they're funding, the school is smaller than most public schools field, the 'field' (if you can even call it one) is slanted, and most importantly, they care about their image more than anything else, if your top button is undone? Detention, if you forget your tie? Detention, there's also this system in ACG Sunderland, Green Cards, Orange Cards and Red Cards, basically, they're cards where you give to the teachers to mark your behavior and then you give it to the dean to check, thing is, they give these out so frequently, they ran out of green paper. They also take things way too seriously, if you have an Air pod in your ear? Detention. This school is just genuinely the worst, the gym is small, the school is small, but their money is big, why can't they buy more land to increase space for the school. Or are they just that money hungry.

  • Employee
    1.0
    19 June 2023

    Academic Cash Grab

    I experienced high turnover of teachers, racism and bullying. There were no bells or PA system, and the building is leaky. There is not good support for staff here who are overworked. Its sink or swim. The children are in a pressure cooker, and the class sizes are just the same as public schools. I dont know where the money is all going, because the facilities are not what they could be. The Primary Principal was hard. Its a for-profit-school run as a business exam factory and you will pay the price.

  • Student
    1.0
    31 December 2021

    Bullies thrive

    Academically your child will be pushed to their limit. Based on the personality of the child this can be good or a bad thing. No diversity of sports offered. Class bullies are protected. The ministry of education are not able to hold the school accountable for not dealing with bullying due to it being a part of the private sector. Favoritism/clicks within teachers and “favoured” families. Even the school principle has a few favourite families where those children receive most of the school award...

  • Other
    1.0
    2 July 2021

    Ask about turnover of teachers

    high turnover of teaching staff in primary, teachers leaving mid year etc. Left after bullying behaviour from Dean of primary