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Absolutely appalling behaviour from BOA students on the Shrewsbury to Birmingham train in the morning. They disrupt everyone’s journey by talking loudly, singing and, in many cases, vaping. I want some peace on my way to work. It seems from the comments below that other people are finding these students annoying on the train too. I am going to write to the headteacher to express my concerns.

The kids on the train from BOA are awful. Swearing, kicking things, shouting and being generally obnoxious. All commuters know not to sit near any of the kids wearing a BOA uniform.

I would like to leave a negative review for BOA , for the following reason. Children are not accepted to this school during the year, and the request to make an appointment with the director was also refused. How to be talented children who come to Birmingham? My daughter came from Ukraine because of military operations in her hometown. This school is the closest to home. And also with the appropriate direction. But the school administration categorically refused to even consider our application for admission, referring to the fact that this would not be fair to other candidates. Excuse me, but how can we compare with other candidates? We lost everything because of the war, we were forced to evacuate, and my daughter did not have the opportunity to apply and audition for this school earlier. I find the leadership and administration of the BOA school to be unfair and cruel.

Incredible school! I love how these children / young Adults get to follow their passions in life. My niece started Dance 2 years ago and was the best decision, she had no confidence in herself before she started and due to the great staff she has alot more now! She's also had multiple opportunities that wouldn't be possible if she wasn't at this school 👏🏼👏🏼

Words cannot express how amazing I think this school is! My daughter has flourished since moving here in year 10. The staff and facilities are second to none.

My partner has been a school teacher for 31 years and when he attended a recent event he referred to it as the Rolls Royce of schools.

All I can say is a massive thank you to all of the staff who are obviously incredible at what you do.

Not sure how they missed such a creative and talented young lady.but how my daughter was ignored at this year 10 workshop by all the staff who took time with the other chosen student they already had their eyes on. They called my daughter in for the 2nd round of the workshop interview and she did not realise that there was a 1st round interview that had taken place weeks back. So off course the staff had chosen there students from the very first round. Absolutely disgusted . . Regretably no suprise the boa academy did not accept her.awful way of treating young students.
If you're not full of confidence and talking the talk you child has no chance.

After spending years being harassed for my own interests and abilities at high school, going to BOA was a breath of fresh air and gave me the best years of my educational career. If you're passionate about something and have the drive to push it further, I cannot recommend BOA enough.

If you are not over confident and fit into a very small minority of a certain type of student you will be pushed a side and ignored and treated as less than your peers. This place made me miserable most days. The majority of the reviews on here that are 5 star are probably by the parents of the children that fit into the small minority who were given 24/7 attention by the staff at this school. If you think going into this school is about having passion and skill, you’re wrong. I used to love music and at one point it was my entire life but this school drained most of that passion out of me. I didn’t do as well as my work showed I should have because I wasn’t one of the favourites, so only send your kid here if they are typically a teachers pet, that’s the only way they will do well. This school offers a tone of opportunities, however in most cases are only offered to selected people out of favouritism.