Secondary
Highbury Fields School
Highbury Hill, London, N5 1AR
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Girls
- Pupils
- 733 of 1050 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.3
- Local authority
- Islington
- Sixth form
- Yes
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 60.9
- All staff (FTE)
- 73.1
- Pupils per adult
- 10.2
- Pupils
- 747
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected September 2022
Outstanding
Still graded as at
Outstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
62%
9 points above the London average (53% across 239 schools)
57.4
6.3 above the London average (51.1 across 239 schools)
49th of 239 by our score, among the secondary schools in London we can score - 299 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 57.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 5.26 |
| Entered the EBacc | 49% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 81% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 62% |
| A level average points per entry | 40 |
| A level students | 19 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 62% |
| 22/23 | 65% |
| 23/24 | 57% |
| 24/25 | 62% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 30.5 |
| 22/23 | 29.1 |
| 23/24 | 33.0 |
| 24/25 | 40.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.60 |
| 22/23 | +0.82 |
| 23/24 | +0.43 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 55.8 |
| 22/23 | 57.1 |
| 23/24 | 51.4 |
| 24/25 | 57.4 |
Highbury Hill, London, N5 1AR
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Islington admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Tim Fox
- Address
- Highbury Hill, London, N5 1AR
- Telephone
- 02072881888