While student wellbeing and safety are frequently referred to by teachers and school policies, many participants described spaces where they felt unsafe or were subject to violence. These spaces included particular locations within schools, including classrooms, and peripheral spaces beyond the school gate, including surrounding neighbourhoods, public transport, parties, and online social media where young women felt they were under surveillance by predatory men. We link discussion of these instances to events reported in local media, including rape at an out-of-school party and the conviction of a teacher for “upskirting”—photographing up the skirts of students at his school. As well as these significant events, we consider how low-level microaggressions are experienced and explained by young people, and the extent to which they may legitimise toxic behaviours. Policies addressing gendered and sexualised harassment range from respectful relationships education to national plans to reduce violence against women—all of which highlight the importance of schools taking action. Drawing from our data, we consider the extent to which secondary schools reflect, perpetuate, counter or disregard misogynistic wider cultures. Are schools equipping young people with tools, strategies, discourses, and understandings about how they deal with these sorts of sexualised violence?